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Privilege Checking is Now Considered Problematic
National Review ^ | Jan 22, 2016 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 01/25/2016 6:49:02 AM PST by 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."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: racism; whiteprivilege
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To: PeteePie

The author of the claim, Efe Atali, is either nuts or he’s doing the usual social activist thing of jerking the cat toy away. The reason you can never satisfy these people is that they go to great lengths to make it impossible.


21 posted on 01/25/2016 1:45:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: CodeToad
"...senior Efe Atali..."

...Is a racist foreigner who hates white people and should thus be excreted from our great country post haste.

22 posted on 01/25/2016 2:54:49 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: PeteePie

I recently applied to a private school for my child. Very expensive.

Also there that day was a ghetto mama trying to get her child into the school also.

The difference between me and her is that the ghetto mama wants the school to allow her young excretion into the school FOR FREE and without testing.

The nerve and gall of that human is amazing to me. No shame, no morality, just a constant grasping for free stuff from the dominant culture.

The Gibs is strong with her....


23 posted on 01/25/2016 2:59:27 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: 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!"

According to Privilege Theory you should have no problem being admitted. However, when you do get tossed out on yer rump, please be sure to relate the experience back to F'n Efe Atali, that Berkeley know-it-all, and ask him to help you understand why it is the Master's insists on qualifying standards of skill and accomplishment to play.

24 posted on 01/26/2016 6:16:59 AM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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