Anyone who uses the phrase “check your privilege” against another first needs to have their own privileges checked.
1) You are speaking freely. If you had earned that right you would not question it in others. As such, using an unearned right, you are a spoiled brat. Check your privilege and listen before you speak.
2) You are speaking to someone you think is privileged. If you truly believe this, then you should keep a humble and courteous tongue in your mouth, lest those you deem to be superior to you remind you of your inferiority.
3) Since you believe yourself to be inferior, the proof of this is not even speaking until you are spoken to.
If you truly believe me to be of a “privileged” group,
you should be hesitant to criticize me out of fear of reprisal.
Now, I know it’s not minorities that live in such fear, but some other group that does...