Ethics, Thursday

[saddeserthermit]

Today the classroom's desks were shoved to the sides of the room and a white tape was going down the middle. Anakin and Obi-Wan were standing on it. "Today we're going to explore how assumptions we make about how we interact with the world might not be universal," Anakin began.

"This is a class we teach every year," Obi-Wan said, "In an effort to communicate the principle of privilege. Privilege is a complicated concept, which touches each of us in different ways: depending on which planet we are on and what era it is, simple things such as skin tone, education, wealth, ethnicity and so on may make our lives harder or easier. One may experience privilege for one element of one's self, and lose it for another. And so forth."

Anakin nodded. "Since Fandom covers the gamut of space and time," and has a statistically unusual number of orphans, "it's very difficult to get a group of questions that accurately reflect the challenges and the privileges in your life. I would ask that you answer as honestly as you can. Master Kenobi and I, as always, will participate as well. Though we both became Jedi, which is a group of privilege in our galaxy, we grew up quite differently."

"If you are uncomfortable with the assignment, you are allowed to sit it out," Obi-Wan continued. "Please tell us if this is the case."

"Everyone else, stand on the line, please," Anakin said.

Comments

Assignment: Privilege

[saddeserthermit]

"If your parents or guardians attended college or otherwise enjoyed higher education in your universe, take one step forward."

Re: Assignment: Privilege

[saddeserthermit]

A specialized education among the Jedi... did that fit? Obi-Wan couldn't decide. He stayed.

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[giveherahand]

Mara took a step forward. The Emperor was highly trained.

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[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah," Dante drawled, "Real college-goers, my folks." Not going anywhere, no.

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[era_two_triangle]

Aaand here she was, back to staying right where she was.

Peridot had given up on grumbling about these things. She was going to just have to brush this off as an 'organic life form' thing and stand there, silently annoyed.

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[sith_happened]

Anakin stayed where he was.

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[snipsnspecks]

And once again following Anakin and Obi-wan's example, Ahsoka stayed put.

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[boneyard_girl]

Ada snickered quietly, and stayed where she was. She was gonna be the first in ages to actually finish high school. College? That wasn't really an option for any of them.

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[crimson_sister]

Her father had, even if it has been quite wasted. Lucille supposed it counted anyway and took a step forward.

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[goforthe_optics]

Tali figured the special training her father had gotten en route to becoming an admiral counted, so . . . one more step forward for her, yay?

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[candycrushlove]

Maria didn't move.

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[spell_chucker]

Khadgar looked around as he stayed put this time, and felt better than many of the others hadn't moved either. At least he was in good company.

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[studyingfear]

Rufus took a step forward again.

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[vrajna_kralis]

Right. As if university was for anything other than the highest of nobility. Hyacinthe wouldn't even be here if he hadn't been useful to Anafiel to send him. He debated taking a step back just for that.

Re: Assignment: Privilege

[notfinnyet]

Again, FN-2187 had no clue, though standard First Order propaganda led him to assume his parents had been dirt poor mudball farmers and he was a lot better off than he would have been with them. He didn't know if his First Order superior officers counted as 'guardians' either, so...he was staying put again.