I'm so sick of people bleating at each other to "check their privilege." As if someone's going to say, "Wait, you're right, I DO have privilege! Thanks so much for the reminder."
It is definitely an overused trope. Like SJW and Politically Correct, in limited ways it works quite well in describing a dynamic and you can even point out that even if someone is not overtly racist or sexist, that person is still part of the problem if they do not see that they are directly benefiting from a racist or sexist social order.
Yet, just going "CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!!!!" is really never going to work in any context beyond self-righteous bleating. And don't get me wrong, I did it too when I called out an author for comparing the IDF to Nazis for her Aryan Privilege. And I knew what I was doing too.
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Yet, just going "CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!!!!" is really never going to work in any context beyond self-righteous bleating. And don't get me wrong, I did it too when I called out an author for comparing the IDF to Nazis for her Aryan Privilege. And I knew what I was doing too.
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