This is SOO accurate. And the sad thing is a lot of minority immigrants and their children (Asians I'm looking at y'all) who are more blessed don't even know this and think people are poor because they want to be poor.

Ok b4 i read

Are those supposed to be babies

Ok, lemme continue

Is this a thread about economic privilege, rather than racial? If so, thank God because at least it's something new.

Poor Paula this makes me sad.

edit: this artist cant draw babies though.

sis if you think this has nothing to do with race

a bit of sexism too

thought they were old men at first

Both of the characters in the comic look white to me (although Paula looked a bit Asian to me), but anyway, the thread just said "privilege", and the comic focuses more on economic backgrounds than race, so I do not think it's too far-fetched for me to think that this is about economic privilege.

But it'll devolve into the same racial debate we have every day here, which I mean, it's important and a real issue, but economic privilege is a real issue, too, and you can talk about more than one issue without it being "Oh. so x is more important than y, now?" I'm just relieved something else that's an issue is being high-lighted for once.

When did I say racial privilege is more important?
Anyway I think it's unhealthy to totally erase the racial point of view when it's closely intertwined.

I know the intention is positive but it's not clear enough (also some logical fallacies).

It was more of an inb4 for anyone who wants to @ me at my first comment of "at least it's something new", then directed specifically at you. Although a poor white person would still have more opportunities than a poor minority, and that does have a lot to do with privilege, I don't really think that was something this comic was trying to highlight, and (this is just my theory) it may have been done purposely as to not trivialize any one person's struggles just because they have an upper-hand for being white.

And I'd personally think making it a racial issue, as the forefront, trivializes the struggles of lower class whites. (White tears, boo hoo, etc., but economic privilege is an issue even if you're white.) This is not to say that there aren't undertones of issues like sexism or racism, because there could be, that's just not how I interpreted this comic specifically.

Great comic, I've seen this posted around Facebook. People need to understand that poverty is perpetuated systematically and so is wealth.

you're making perfectly good sense but I think it is poking a bit at the racial aspect. It wasn't direct but I inferred from the "there are lot of people living in her house" I assumed she was an immigrant. But that's just my own personal speculation.

Those babies look like they're 45-year-old alcoholics

When I read that part, I actually thought of my own experiences growing up. Even now, we have people who we wouldn't even consider to be "close" living with us because we need help with paying bills, but I've rarely ever lived in a household where it was just my parents, my siblings, and me. I just thought there were more people there because they were trying to help pay for bills.

It's interesting that you came to the idea that they were immigrants, because as naive, and possibly ignorant, as it sounds, I didn't know having a lot of people in a household was a common thing for immigrants. I could definitely see why that would be a possibility, but I was under the impression that immigrants were either in it for themselves, or if they were trying to support a family, they just sent money back home, rather than everyone coming along.

I do think that, although simple, this comic actually makes for a great way to begin a discussion or debate, as I've found in this thread, so I think what this comic was trying to do, regardless of implications, worked. So well-done on the artist/writer's behalf. (Toby Morris, apparently?)

Does the reality that more than just racial issues exist, and that some people want to talk about them, scare you?