Check Your Privilege

[RepublicofConch]

Should we basically just scream this at government officials - authority figures - when they order us to do something... ?


Tal Fortgang has offended the offense-takers. The Princeton University freshman wrote an essay for a student publication, since reprinted in Time magazine, skewering the progressive trope “check your privilege.”

If you haven’t been told to “check your privilege,” you don’t spend enough time on college campuses, or on progressive websites, where the phrase is considered a debate-clinching rejoinder suitable for any occasion. It is an injunction to admit the privilege — whiteness, maleness, heteroness, middle-classness, and some other -nesses — behind any uncongenial point of view.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/377307/print

[Feeding the Abscess]

The whole 'check your privilege' mindset is so fucking backwards. Instead of demonizing, opposing, and working to eradicate the oppression minorities and others have faced in society, typically as the result of the State, we're supposed to demonize and oppose people who don't necessarily suffer at the same rate in the same ways.

There's the point, and then there's wherever the hell progs are with this 'privilege' nonsense.