How to Respond to Campus Claims of Privilege
Kurt Schlichter has written a new essay for Townhall which describes the best method for dealing with progressive claims of privilege on campus and it’s a must-read.
I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine
This “Check your privilege” meme is the newest trump card du jour on college campuses and in other domains of progressive tyranny. It morphed into existence from the “You racist!” wolf-cry that is now so discredited that it produces little but snickers even among liberal fellow travelers. After all, if everyone is racist – and to the progressives, everyone is except themselves – then no one is really racist. And it’s kind of hard to take seriously being called “racist” by adherents of a political party that made a KKK kleagle its Senate majority leader.
So how do we deal with this idiocy?
The proper response to the privilege gambit is laughter. The super-serious zealots of progressivism hate being laughed at, but there’s really no other appropriate response outside of a stream of obscenities. The privilege game is designed to circumvent arguments based on reason and facts and evidence, so the way to win it is to defeat it on its own terms.
Call: “Check your privilege!”
Response: “What you call ‘privilege’ is just me being better than you.”
They won’t like it. It will make them angry. Good. Because tactics like “Check your privilege” are designed to make us angry, to put us off-balance, to baffle us and suck us down into a rabbit hole of leftist jargon and progressive stupidity.
Don’t follow them. Mock them. Accuse them of adhering to a transphobic cisnormative paradigm and start shrieking “Hate crime!”
Read it all at the link below.
Comments
This “check you privilege” thing is such a crock. When one focuses too much on the suppression and control of others, then there is little room left for for self advancement. In fact, it becomes an excuse to be a total failure. So my answer to them is to stuff it! Everything I’ve ever gotten in life I had to work for it to have it.
Just as the constant complaints about white privilege are a way for “people of color” to rationalize their own failures (including the failure to work very hard), the constant charges of white racism are a cheap way for “people of color” to feel morally superior without having to act in an ethical way. When deployed by white people, the mantras of white privilege and white racism are cheap ways for those white people to pretend they’re morally superior to most other white people.
When Rosalyn Carter piously claimed that Ronald Reagan “made us feel comfortable with our prejudices,” I wanted to ask her which prejudices she felt comfortable with in the Reagan years. But of course her “us” and “our” weren’t intended to include herself. She was referring to people less virtuous than herself.