"check your privilege" explained by Anon. ( Xpost from /r/4chan )

CatsAreWonderful · 2014-11-10T00:23:10+00:00

Ironically you, nor any of us, will ever meet anyone with real privaledge. Ergo, those in the top 1 percent eschelon who are either so powerful or so wealthy that we never, ever see them nor they us. if anything, they are the ones who's privilege they should be checking. anything else is just nit picking, in-fighting, bickering and fragmentation of those of us in that segment of society that should be unifying in order to create real change.

TankVet · 2014-11-10T01:28:14+00:00

There are few phrases that get under my skin like "check your privilege." But as a tall, white, educated, employed, American man, I hear it a lot. Hearing this makes me snarl.

dougal24 · 2014-11-10T01:52:16+00:00

I think I'll be calling my penis "privilege" from now on. I'm always checking that thing

farkface · 2014-11-10T04:44:17+00:00

Check your privilege is the same as "I'm offended." Its not an argument. Its a way of avoiding the debate. Its a defense mechanism meant to shut down any consideration of someone's argument.

timoppenheimer · 2014-11-09T22:58:45+00:00

I knew there was good content on 4chan somewhere. Thank you!

agentsoapbox · 2014-11-10T02:32:02+00:00

My boyfriend and I are always making fun of this privilege bullshit. We come up with crazy shit. Like, "check your privilege-citing privilege."

SweetSonOfABitch · 2014-11-10T02:17:05+00:00

See also: Kafkatrapping

Corsaer · 2014-11-10T07:44:47+00:00

Since it wasn't here when I read it, the link: Master Suppression Techniques.

yoduh4077 · 2014-11-09T23:16:47+00:00

I prefer to exploit it rather than check it.

MrWigggles · 2014-11-10T02:23:52+00:00

Holy shit.

Realworld · 2014-11-10T05:35:34+00:00

Thank you for the explanation. I've heard the phrase often on the internet but couldn't figure out a logical meaning from context.

I'm white, highly-educated and quite rich. Curiously, no one has ever used that phrase on me. I would've immediately asked them to explain logic behind their intended meaning.

Steve_the_Stevedore · 2014-11-10T07:36:56+00:00

Well if you are allowed to add "...or else" you can make a threat out of everything. "Take this elephant baloon, boy, or else....", "Would you please step over here, sir, or else....".

ShitlordAndProud · 2014-11-10T16:58:16+00:00

I'm thinking of creating an account called "MST" or something, and using these techniques here in MensRights in faux attack on our views, just to give people practice in dealing with them, and to parody feminist rebuttals.

What do you think?

HoneyVortex · 2014-11-10T17:07:17+00:00

It's also circular reasoning. To object to "check your privilege" implicitly implies that one's privilege is not checked. Hence there is no reasonable answer (to the "check your privilege" assertion), no response other than to "shut up" and do what asserter wants.

leaftreeforest · 2014-11-10T10:18:39+00:00

Ionno, doesn't calling people 'feminazi', 'social justice warriors' or 'white knights' do a few of these as well, and using the flimsy rationales used by the poster. E.g.,

Making invisible: by dismissing the criticisms of the sjw.
Ridicule: making fun of the SJW

Withholding information not so much, SJW or feminazi are pretty defined.
Ditto with 4.

Heap blame/put shame: it shames the SJW
Objectifying: because feminazi or white knight usually means female or male, even though being female or male has nothing to do with any discussion, ever (it's an ad hominem)

Threat of force, not so much, but I also don't think people who say "check your privilege" are saying "check your privilege, or else I'll cut you through this computer screen"

I guess everyone has adopted these master suppression techniques,

railroadwino · 2014-11-10T17:36:05+00:00

This should be posted every time someone says to check your privilege. It's such a cop-out, cheap phrase used by people because they don't have the skills to argue against actual reasoning such as this.

Title	"check your privilege" explained by Anon. ( Xpost from /r/4chan )
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Date	November 9, 2014 9:36 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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