People who come from privilege need to find a way to understand that equality is not discrimination.

As a poor neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ AFAB Jew who has severe allergies, I know my fair share of discrimination.

If you still don't get it, I was bullied from elementary to the beginning of high school, mostly for being short and smart.

You must understand, right?

I was raised by a single mother starting around my eighth birthday when my dad moved for a job. That turned into them being separated and then divorced by the beginning of middle school for me.

The weight of knowing how much debt my ma is in is immeasurable. Her meager raises are nothing in comparison to the skyrocket of inflation

If you really don't get any of this, you're the problem I'm protesting.

Well, not you directly, but the system that has created you.

The same system that created the kids who bullied my mom when she was in school for not having name brand clothes.

The system which leaves her with so much debt even today because of the systematic barriers put in the little, likely neurodivergent, Jewish girl's way.

Shaming her for her family's financial situation, scaring her as she continues to have the same issues.

Now juggling me, a college student with all the descriptors from the beginning and the ongoing struggle to be debt free, when credit cards are no longer usable because of the amount owed.

I'm not asking the not understanding rich person to come down to my level of suffering.

I just wish it was reasonable to think my mom might not struggle economically one day.

That the barriers only passable by luck should be lowered to allow people to actually move up based on their hard work.

If hard work got you places, my mother would be rich.

We have the privilege of skin tone, so I don't mean to shape us up as having it worse than everyone else.

I know we have it better than many, many others.

I don't see those below us getting support as discrimination; I see the use of our identities as ways to put us down as such.

It must take ignorant privilege to think others being represented and helped as discrimination.

No one deserves to be discriminated against; no one knows that better than the oppressed. What makes people think those who hate oppression and discrimination the most would cause or wish for others to experience it?