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What is your privilege?
1 posted on 05/05/2014 3:10:03 PM PDT by Scoutmaster
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To: Scoutmaster

Great article.


2 posted on 05/05/2014 3:14:58 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Should I check my God-given rights at the same time?


3 posted on 05/05/2014 3:21:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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bttt


4 posted on 05/05/2014 3:24:34 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Oh bravo! Excellent article.


5 posted on 05/05/2014 3:26:27 PM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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I have the right to bear arms, but linerals think it should be a governemnt handed privilege until you retire and then you are back to being a serf awaiting your death panel date.


6 posted on 05/05/2014 3:48:13 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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BTTT


7 posted on 05/05/2014 3:49:22 PM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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Boy, is he going to the wrong school!


8 posted on 05/05/2014 3:50:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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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.


9 posted on 05/05/2014 4:22:33 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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Clearly, he is unrepentant, and this proves the need for reeducation camps established by FEMA, security by Homeland and reeducation provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center.


10 posted on 05/05/2014 4:40:13 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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FWIW, Jewish students are 13% of Princeton. That’s by far the lowest in the Ivy League and the school has a goal of getting it back up to 20%.

No problem with that, until you realize Jews are only 2% of the population.

I doubt I have any disagreement with this student or his no doubt well-earned presence at Princeton.

I have a lot of problems with his ethnic/religious compatriots who have led the fight to have “white people” limited to no more than their percentage of the population (actually much less) at elite colleges, while allowing, indeed encouraging, Jews to exceed their percentage by 10x or 15x.


11 posted on 05/05/2014 5:25:43 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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When asked the question, respond by saying you have no privilege to check. What you have you have by right.
12 posted on 05/05/2014 5:49:43 PM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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Bravo!


13 posted on 05/06/2014 3:58:02 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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At once..when I was pondering the same questions, I asked a learned elder, "What should I say to convince these people that I mean them no harm?" The reply; "If your love wasn't enough, will your words really matter?"

The poor fellow (author)...spent way too much time trying to get someone to understand, when they really do not want to understand and never will.

Engaging the willfully intolerant with all this "talk" is a waste of creative talent. Intellectual pretzel gymnastics and self mental torture would be more productive. You live..you learn.

15 posted on 05/07/2014 11:46:52 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Scoutmaster; Jewbacca; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Eleutheria5; hecht; dervish; GOPGuide; SunkenCiv; ...
The fact that the brilliant Jewish male author of this essay put it out over the Internet under the name "Anonymous" (not even using a pen name) probably reflects the stifling atmosphere of political correctness on the Princeton campus, which he is criticizing.

Wonder what kind of grade he'd get on this if he turned it in as part of his course work in say, an English writing or a sociology class.

16 posted on 05/07/2014 6:24:29 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377483/banality-privilege-editors

Here is a further article


18 posted on 05/07/2014 6:30:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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My grandparents fled oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe, and were not victimized by the Holocaust. My grandfather insisted that my mother and my aunt go to college in the 1940’s. My father worked for 55 years, since he was fifteen, in a factory from 7AM to 5PM, and then worked evenings and weekends in his coin business. My mother went to work teaching school, and my father sold part of his coin collection so that my brother and I could go to college. I finished college and passed the CPA exam, and then started my own accounting office, working sometimes fifteen hours a day.

I’m privileged. I am very, very privileged.


20 posted on 05/08/2014 4:53:58 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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"Check your privilege."

Proper response: "Go get bent."

27 posted on 05/08/2014 6:56:38 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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What about the International Conspiracy to take over the world and fake the Holocaust to justify it? Doesn’t that make you privileged? Huh? Huh? Huh?

And that’s nothing compared to what the sons of former slaves suffered. Why, if it hadn’t been for slavery, they’d have been back in Africa, starving or getting raped and murdered by holy warriors, as Allah meant them to be./s


32 posted on 05/08/2014 3:05:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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Great post. It might be a duplicate but it doesn’t matter... it’s worth many reads...


34 posted on 05/08/2014 4:18:04 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
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Beautiful.

My privilege is the same as his.


39 posted on 05/08/2014 11:13:01 PM PDT by Yaelle
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