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    No, I Won’t Check My Privilege

    I post a lot on how the left threatens free speech, on campuses and elsewhere, and how a backlash if rising. It was said in one such thread that thxis threat is decades old. This article pretty well covers its history.

    No, I Won’t Check My Privilege

    “Check your privilege!” It happened again last week. I was speaking about feminism to a large and vocal audience and my views were, rightly, coming under scrutiny. I was accused of criticizing #MeToo but ignoring domestic violence, using pay gap and employment data selectively, and focusing exclusively on the experiences of middle-class women. It was a robust and stimulating debate. Then, just before the end, came the now-hackneyed retort: privilege! My criticisms of feminism were, I was told, simply a reflection of my own privilege, and I should shut up and listen to those with less of it.

    Privilege-checking has its roots in academia (of course) but when it first emerged three decades ago it was a minority pursuit. Back in 1988, Peggy McIntosh, professor of women’s studies, wrote a paper called “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” In it, she helped rehabilitate the then-unfashionable view that men and women, white people and black people, are born differently and as a result experience the world in different ways.

    McIntosh’s work preempted later thinking in critical race theory and gender studies; it lent weight to the idea that people can be categorized according to gender, race, and sexuality, and that each group membership confers particular advantages or disadvantages. Intersectionality became the word of choice to describe how individuals, who might belong to several overlapping groups, faced multiple layers of interconnected discrimination.

    Privilege-checking took off around 2013 when it moved from academia to social media. The idea that people gain special advantages—privilege—based on the groups they belong to rapidly became a convenient means of keeping an intersectional score card. In the minds of those keeping count, privilege is something that must, like original sin, be acknowledged and atoned for. Over the past five years, calls on anyone making an argument that challenges the intersectional orthodoxy to check their privilege have become ubiquitous. It’s the go-to response of those determined to stake a claim to the moral high ground but unable to formulate a coherent argument.

    ...The cry of “Check your privilege!” is a well-worn rhetorical trick that manages simultaneously to undermine an argument, detract from the speaker, and shut down further discussion. It’s long past its sell-by date and should be put out of its misery entirely.
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    Now the left is threatening a Civil War during the Midterms to assure the right doesnt win. I read the article this morning and didnt post it.

    On a good note there are now Professors coming out and stating emphatically that the PC culture is destroying higher education and needs to stop.
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    Civil war? Lol...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Civil war? Lol...
    Go find a topic you can contribute to, please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Civil war? Lol...
    You need to read more sites other than cnn
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    There won't be a civil war in the US. That is just silly talk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    You need to read more sites other than cnn
    I don't read CNN. Maybe I should try some objective sites like Townhall?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    I don't read CNN. Maybe I should try some objective sites like Townhall?

    Try Politicalo and The Hill.
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    Nope. Privilege came into being in the late s 60's or early 70's. The whole hippie/anti-war time was about privilege. The guys didn't want to fight in a war; their girl friends went along as meat. It was "free love"( with a big dose of std thrown in for free). It was "do your own thing."
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