Privilege Checking is Now Considered Problematic

National Review ^ | Jan 22, 2016 | Katherine Timpf

[PeteePie]

For quite some time, I've been hearing that social-justice warriors want me to "check my privilege," but now they've decided that privilege-checking is actually problematic, too.

In a "special" to the Daily Californian, University of California at Berkeley's official student newspaper, senior Efe Atali explains that not only is privilege definitely a huge problem, but also so is the way that people "feel comfortable in encouraging privilege talk."

[PeteePie]

[Skooz]

I think Katherine Timpf is cute.

Pretty, even.

[17th Miss Regt]

Are these people even human?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Timfp? Never heard of her. That’s sound’s like the sound my engine makes just before it goes clump and then silence. One nice thing about this election will be after Trump is elected all the Timfp’s, Krauthammer’s,Will’s, et al will take a four year siesta in some enclave where I never have to read their words again.
Freegards
LEX

[needmorePaine]

“The more inequality we have, the privilege gets checked by more privileged people, and the more the privileged feel pleasure (and power) in being aware of their privilege and so, grow in power,” Atali writes.

Uh, what?

[CodeToad]

“University of California at Berkeley’s “

Just stopped reading right there.

IF you want to find the most ignorant and stupid people then go to a college. If you want to the find the dumb of dumb then go to Berkeley.

[Gamecock]

FOLLOW THE DARN RULES!

Now that we have that cleared up, she is pretty cute. But what is bothersome is she looks like this dingbat:

[Ted Grant]

She ain’t all that. She works the glasses as part of her gimmick.

[kearnyirish2]

You must have had parents that read stories to you at bed-time; that is considered “white privilege”. The bar is being set so low to accommodate our chronic underachievers...

[dfwgator]

There is no stupider creature on the planet than a white liberal.

[17th Miss Regt]

The bar is being set so low to accommodate our chronic underachievers...

Our chronic underachievers...at Berkeley. Ironic, isn't it?

[JimRed]

The headline suggested a banking thread.

They’re doing away with privilege checking?

[Pollster1]

"I -- like many on campus -- care passionately about a kind of talk that is less about asserting one's status and more about working forward without carrying indefensible and silly injustices along," Atali writes.

The best real-world way to work forward is to contribute something of value. Major in engineering and create stuff. Major in medicine and cure disease. Major in business and meet genuine needs that don't depend on a government subsidy. Join the military and protect freedom. Those are all the opposite of being a modern philosophy, gender studies, racial studies, women's studies social justice warrior and wallowing in a privilege so delicate it cannot be talked about but also cannot be ignored.

Note: Gratuitous photo of Katherine Timpf included purely to add to the discourse. The stupid comments come from Efe Atali, a younger pajamaboy [Microsoft, Berkeley Technology Review, White House of the United States (Obama Administration)] who is so neutered he couldn't even feature in an Obamacare ad. Timpf is the writer, a 27 y/o libertarian formerly of Hillsdale College, currently at Fox and National Review. I think she is trying for an eventual SE Cupp cute republican establishment commentator position.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Timpf is the sensible (and cute) quite-conservative journalist who's using mockery and wit to dispose of all this white privilege claptrap.

I know, I know, we all need scorecards.

[kearnyirish2]

There are: The non-whites that follow them down the path of dependence and self-destruction.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Ah, thank you for the clarification. I don’t watch FOX anymore...a millenial whoa sure don’t envy that at all. And a Hillsdale grad so she has conservative credential. I will keep an eye on her...well in a purely platonic way of course
Be Blessed
LEX

[Lou L]

I still don’t know 1) if I have privilege; 2) how much privilege I have; and 3) how exactly to parlay all that privilege into tangible assets.

[PeteePie]

1) Oh, you GOT privilege.
2) And you have more than you deserve
3) Walk in anywhere and receive free stuff, preferential hiring, a pat on the back, positive things said about you, nice house in the burbs, new car, ability to walk through the store and not be followed by security, cops waving to you, great education, no burdens, nirvana, etc.
/s

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Lou L]

My first attempt at privilege-parlaying is going to be at the Augusta National Golf Club in April. I intend to walk right up to the gates and be admitted into the Masters’ Golf Tournament!