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Topic: Checking my privilege

Anonymous A started this discussion 12 years ago #35,825

How do I do it? Is it like checking my coat at the door?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #490,751

No, it's where you open your wallet and make sure your privelege cards havent been misplaced.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,761

It's when you consider all of the advantages you have in life, and are smug about it.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 4 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,840

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
So it's more of an anti smugness sort of thing? I thought it was that only a gay black morbidly obese lesbian transgendered orphaned refugee woman living in poverty is able to express opinions without privilege.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 12 years ago, 1 hour later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,860

@previous (D)
Oh, nah, I was taking the piss out of it.

What it actually is is considering all of the ways that you are (arguably) advanntaged within your society, like being male or white and stuff like that. You're meant to consider this stuff before trying to understand or interact with people who lack these privileges.

Or something like that, anyway.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 17 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,865

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
This seems like one of these typically american faggotries. We can interact just fine with people less fortunate than us without using these stupid identity politics

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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 12 years ago, 6 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,867

@previous (E)
Sure, of course we can.

What's happened is that SJW people have taken a fairly good general policy ("keep in mind how fortunate you may be next to others") and taken it too far, with the idea that everybody should obsessively examine their privileges whenever talking to somebody else.

Metæ replied with this 12 years ago, 8 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #490,902

@490,865 (E)
The problem is, it paints humanity with an overly broad brush: all white people are always better off than all non-white people, all men are always better off than all women, etc (for some reason the Jim Crow era white/colored dichotomy is progressive now – the more things change the more they stay the same).
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