To make a statement that acknowledges one's privilege or another group's inequality, but that also seems to want to congratulate the speaker for being aware of those issues.
(Named after white rapper Macklemore, who won the 2014 Grammy for Best Rap Album over favorite Kendrick Lamar, then posted on Instagram a screenshot of him texting Lamar that he should have won and saying that he would have said that on stage if he hadn't ran out of time.)
It was cool that John acknowledges white privilege, but it really felt like mackling when he talked more about how he found out about white privilege than the actual disadvantages black people face.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”