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have you ever been told to "check your privilege"?

have you been told to check your privilege?

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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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have you been told this before? i just heard it for the first time tonight at dollar general, and had to look it up.

i was shopping in the store and grabbed the last bag of cheese curls just as this lady came up, and told me that she was going to get them. i said i needed to get them for my lunches, and she got really mad and told me "check your privilege!" before stomping off in a huff.

i was unaware that i had some privilege that assisted me in cheese curls purchases. ?_?
 
brianmanahan said:
have you been told this before? i just heard it for the first time tonight at dollar general, and had to look it up.

i was shopping in the store and grabbed the last bag of cheese curls just as this lady came up, and told me that she was going to get them. i said i needed to get them for my lunches, and she got really mad and told me "check your privilege!" before stomping off in a huff.

i was unaware that i had some privilege that assisted me in cheese curls purchases. ?_?
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Never heard that one before.
 
Interesting. I guess this is the new veiled racism. Sort of like saying you're one of 'those' people.

Princeton Freshman’s Column On ‘Privilege’ Goes Viral
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/01/princeton-freshmans-column-on-privilege-goes-viral/

What "check your privilege" really means
http://dailyprincetonian.com/opinion/2014/04/what-check-your-privilege-really-means/

Great rationalization. I'm judging your opinion condescendingly solely on your appearance. You're an overprivileged undeserving a-hole, but I mean it in the most polite way possible. lol?

Similarly, every white male’s accomplishments and personal family ancestry are not condemned or negated by the privilege debate. Instead, “checking” one’s privilege is meant to provide a more universal outlook and a heightened awareness of greater societal trends and stereotypes that we have each internalized.
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It's about time schools teach the definition of racism and the difference between it and prejudice, discrimination and bigotry.

We're basically raising another generation of idiots and reverting back to the worst parts of the fifties and sixties.

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I don't keep up with these forums enough to know whether this is a parody or not...

Regardless, I think I have been told to check my privilege but I don't think it was in that way at all. I think it was more in the sense that I should self analyze what privilege that I have in situations rather than.... some weird retort.
 
I've found that "Go fuck yourself" works as good response to most people's nonsense. You should have let her have the cheese curls though. Those things are disgusting.
 
Some people just like trying to make a scene of everything. Reminds me of this lady that got super pissed at me for passing in the express lane when she had a cart full. I saw somebody that I know so I said hi and while getting into a conversation I passed her and just set my case of pop down on the conveyor belt (not the belt itself, just the side) to talk to the person(who was still getting their stuff scanned). In my mind I was thinking, if this person is nice she'll just let me go, but I'll let her go once I'm done talking, and see if she says I can go first.

Well the instant I set the case down she got super PMSy on me and started making this huge outrageous scene. I just shrugged it off and let her go and also pointed out to her she was in the wrong lane. She did not like that.
 
So you had them first, but she still thought they were hers? Sounds like she's the one that need to check her privilege.

Whatever the fuck that means.
 
Was she fat? Maybe she was really hungry and thought you wanting it for your stupid lunch was selfish of you.
I had a black guy at the grocery store sort of cut his cart at an angle in front of me and grabbed the last 5 packages of fried chicken meals, even glancing at me seeing that I was waiting to get one of them. I should have told him to check his privileges cause I'm sure that would have worked out well right?

Oh I have been told to "know your role" though. At the time I thought it meant to have knowledge of the rolls you buy at the store, I was a bit confused.
 
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The obvious retort to "check your privilege" needs to be "know your place".
With the implied "scum" being silent.
 
Never heard it until my brother said it to me this morning.

Surprise surprise: he's in this thread
 
Ichinisan said:
I can't stand when people like that vocalize their selfish entitlement. Do they have no shame?
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Nope. Shame is dying out. I see shamelessness of many examples every single day. Like this morning when I watched this black woman pull off to the side from drive through and proceed to toss her used ketchup packets on the sidewalk as a trash can is literally 80 ft away within reach from a car window if she bothered to pull up to it.
 
None of this surprises me in Obamas America, where the bottom feeders are entitled and the ones who work and are at least a little fucking intelligent get the short end of the stick in most social aspects.
 
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