I have somewhat mixed feelings about it too, though those aren't really related to the privilege status of the posters compared to the commenters. Plenty of serial privilege-checkers are white, middle-class, straight, cis, able-bodied, educated, and so on, and plenty of those they check are black, poor, queer, trans, handicapped, and so on. Ultimately, I don't think it's a bad idea to go "hey, maybe you should consider your viewpoint," but an sf-drama style shriekfest every time someone strays from the ever more complicated path of the righteous doesn't help either. Yes, yes, tone argument blah blah blah, but ultimately? If you want to communicate, you need to say something in a way you're going to be heard. This makes me suspect that the goal in aggressive privilege-checking isn't communication.
yeah, I agree with you on this. Particularly with the "tone argument blah blah blah" because, seriously? I realize that it's not the job of person X to educate person Y at any random moment but if you are attempting to have an actual discussion, a conversation, a dialogue then, yeah, a shriekfest is counter productive.
To clarify, I don't think using a tone argument over expressions of anger is ever appropriate, but at the same time, if you're going to open a conversation about something, lobbing angry-bombs isn't going to do what you want. Meh.
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