Interviewer: I’m sorry, we won’t be offering you the position
Me: {full seafood boil on the table} was it the seafood boil?
Interviewer: It was the seafood boil
This level of stupidity is getting tiresome. I’m Norwegian. I know I’m privileged by pretty much any standard. I have never felt oppressed or like my ethnicity, nationality or identity is holding me back in any way. At worst we are irrelevant as many small countries are, and I’m okay with that. But I also know enough about European history and current affairs to know that my privilege doesn’t apply to all Europeans. Neither historically or currently. To act like all white Europeans have the same level of privilege is a wild misrepresentation. You can accept that without pretending that is taking away from POC or like anyone is pretending to be POC. It’s also okay to admit you don’t know enough about Europe to have an actual idea of what some European groups have dealt with. Or else we end up with a conversation as stupid as when Americans had a meltdown cause they thought the movie Frozen made our native population too white.