LogikAndReazon
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A great kerfuffle, ballyhoo, and brouhaha recently erupted after a phenotypically white male attending Princeton University wrote an essay objecting to the fact that several others on campus were constantly instructing him to check his privilege.
Either he is obviously evil, or no one properly instructed him on how to check his privilege. Im here to help.
For white males, checking your privilege has nothing to do with confronting uncomfortable facts. Its not what you have to confrontits about what youre being forced to ignore. Checking ones privilege is almost exclusively a process of evading the most plausible reasons for why white males began dominating the world until others were able to start guilt-tripping them and telling them to check their privilege. It involves living in complete denial. Instead of realistically confronting unearned privilege, it involves swallowing unearned guilt.
Pretend it makes sense that its currently considered the pinnacle of virtue to eagerly hand over what you have instead of fighting to keep it. Pretend that all other groups arent actually fighting loudly and brazenly and openly in their own self-interest. Pretend that its only wrong when white males do it.
For white males, checking your privilege has nothing to do with confronting uncomfortable facts. Its not what you have to confrontits about what youre being forced to ignore.
Pretend its moralrather than cowardly and spinelessto bend over, grab your ankles, and placidly acquiesce to social shaming and belligerent guilt-tripping.
Pretend that people who whine about white privilege are typically white and far more privileged than most whites. Pretend that they are motivated by a sense of fairness rather than a deep-rooted guilt that theyre projecting onto less privileged whites. Pretend that if their families have been in America since colonial times, they arent more likely to have descended from slave owners rather than from white indentured servants. Pretend that the peddlers of the white privilege meme are motivated by facts and logic rather than emotion and superstition......
How to Check Your Privilege Every 3,000 Miles - Taki's Magazine
History can be a difficult thing to dismiss...................lol
Either he is obviously evil, or no one properly instructed him on how to check his privilege. Im here to help.
For white males, checking your privilege has nothing to do with confronting uncomfortable facts. Its not what you have to confrontits about what youre being forced to ignore. Checking ones privilege is almost exclusively a process of evading the most plausible reasons for why white males began dominating the world until others were able to start guilt-tripping them and telling them to check their privilege. It involves living in complete denial. Instead of realistically confronting unearned privilege, it involves swallowing unearned guilt.
Pretend it makes sense that its currently considered the pinnacle of virtue to eagerly hand over what you have instead of fighting to keep it. Pretend that all other groups arent actually fighting loudly and brazenly and openly in their own self-interest. Pretend that its only wrong when white males do it.
For white males, checking your privilege has nothing to do with confronting uncomfortable facts. Its not what you have to confrontits about what youre being forced to ignore.
Pretend its moralrather than cowardly and spinelessto bend over, grab your ankles, and placidly acquiesce to social shaming and belligerent guilt-tripping.
Pretend that people who whine about white privilege are typically white and far more privileged than most whites. Pretend that they are motivated by a sense of fairness rather than a deep-rooted guilt that theyre projecting onto less privileged whites. Pretend that if their families have been in America since colonial times, they arent more likely to have descended from slave owners rather than from white indentured servants. Pretend that the peddlers of the white privilege meme are motivated by facts and logic rather than emotion and superstition......
How to Check Your Privilege Every 3,000 Miles - Taki's Magazine
History can be a difficult thing to dismiss...................lol
