Meet the poster child for “white privilege” – then have your mind blown

Young Conservatives ^ | 4/29/14 | Joshua Riddle

[yldstrk]

yeah my ‘white privilege” has to do with my grandparents and dad and uncle being in a Japanese concentration camp for three years, suffering malnutrition, all their worldly goods stolen and coming over to the US as WW2 refugees.

so eff you to anyone who dares suggest “white privilege” to me. The biggest thing any of us ever owned was a residence.

[beef]

A quick google of “check your privilege” has convinced me that this meme is in serious danger of being parodied into oblivion.

[freedumb2003]

If someone ever said “check your privilege” to me I would tell them to check their grandma’s ugly garter belt.

[warsaw44]

Tried to read it but now need FR’s braille edition.

[Mr. Jeeves]

“check your privilege”

Check your premises.

[Pontiac]

They bristle if you say get over slavery but they seem totally cool with forgetting all about the Holocaust, because 200 years ago was just other day but the 1940s are ancient history.

And six million murdered Jews can’t compare to a dozen lynched black men.

[GOPJ]

Or maybe it’s the privilege my grandmother had of spending weeks upon weeks on a death march through Polish forests in subzero temperatures, one of just a handful to survive, only to be put in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she would have died but for the Allied forces who liberated her and helped her regain her health when her weight dwindled to barely 80 pounds.

Perhaps my privilege is that those two resilient individuals came to America with no money and no English, obtained citizenship, learned the language and met each other; that my grandfather started a humble wicker basket business with nothing but long hours, an idea, and an iron will—to paraphrase the man I never met: “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Maybe my privilege is that they worked hard enough to raise four children, and to send them to Jewish day school and eventually City College.

Hats off to a young man who has a firm but loving grip on reality...

[GOPJ]

Or maybe it’s the privilege my grandmother had of spending weeks upon weeks on a death march through Polish forests in subzero temperatures, one of just a handful to survive, only to be put in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she would have died but for the Allied forces who liberated her and helped her regain her health when her weight dwindled to barely 80 pounds.

Perhaps my privilege is that those two resilient individuals came to America with no money and no English, obtained citizenship, learned the language and met each other; that my grandfather started a humble wicker basket business with nothing but long hours, an idea, and an iron will—to paraphrase the man I never met: “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Maybe my privilege is that they worked hard enough to raise four children, and to send them to Jewish day school and eventually City College.

Hats off to a young man who has a firm but loving grip on reality...

[Cloverfarm]

Thanks for the paragraphs.

Tal’s story brought tears to my eyes — not because of formatting but because of what his “privileged” family survived.

Especially his grandfather saying “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Love that line.

[Sergio]

Thanks for the formatting.

[windcliff]

Me too.

[dr_lew]

He’s skirting the issue.

[P.O.E.]

My folks were “Depression era babies”. I watched my grandparents and my parents work hard, care for their loved ones, and taught us about right and wrong, and God.

Sadly, all of that is missing in too many of today’s generation and culture.

[KosmicKitty]

Holy wall of words, Batman!

[A_perfect_lady]

And six million murdered Jews can’t compare to a dozen lynched black men.

Yep. That's the New Math.

[kearnyirish2]

“I watched my grandparents and my parents work hard, care for their loved ones, and taught us about right and wrong, and God. Sadly, all of that is missing in too many of today’s generation and culture.”

It is, because the American left worked hard for decades to destroy the WASP ethic that built this country. Now they have a country rapidly filling with non-Americans...

[Mercat]

How about the Irish famine? My great grandfather came here at the age of 8 in 1850 on a ship from county Kerry to New Orleans because his family didn’t have the fair for the ships to New York. They worked their way up the Mississippi to where he and his brothers became teamsters and then farmers. Owning land was their goal and education.

My other ancestors had similar histories. My mother, born in 1915, was the first to graduate from college. When I was the third of his three children to get an advanced degree, my dad who came of age in the great depression, sat down and cried.

[A_perfect_lady]

Yep. I and my cousin are the first of our family to go to college. My grandparents were subsistence farmers. Worked like dogs into their late 70s. I grew up poor, on a dirt road, used the GI Bill to put myself through college and am still paying the student loan on grad school. I haven’t noticed being white helping me.

[Max in Utah]

Liberals and feminists loving telling people to “check your privilege”.

The proper response is:

"Oh yeah, I do! Everyday I give thanks to God that I'm a white heterosexual American male! Love it!"

"And by the way, **** you and have a nice day."

[coincheck]

check your privilege is a racist term to make white people feel ashamed of their heritage and past.

the problem is that many white folks have worked their butts off to get where they are, w/o any kind of help from legalized racial profiling against white American’s, especially white males.

a good number of us came from hard backgrounds and less than stellar educational histories. people assume that if your skin color is white you are automatically assumed to have been born with a silver spoon in your mouth.

check your privilege, what a slap in the face of everyone that that phrase is used against. it comes from an evil source that only wants to divide us and keep us at each others throat.