I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine

Townhall.com ^ | May 12, 2014 | Kurt Schlichter

[Gaffer]

Call: “Check your privilege!”

Response: “What you call ‘privilege’ is just me being better than you.”

Here's my response: "Know your place!"

An offensive racist statement deserves an offense racist response.

[FES0844]

And I’d say, ‘privilege’ is just politicians who are above the law.

[Lazamataz]

Here's my response: "Know your place!"

Brilliant. Swiped.

Best said with a condescending sneer, too.

[Einherjar]

“Know Your Role “

The Rock

[bert]

liberals are inherently lazy.

LIV’s are lazy.

Laziness is the root cause of inequality

[Kaslin]

That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is an excellent example

[DaveA37]

I had the “privilege” of working my behind off to get where I am today. No one built it for me, I did it the hard way, it’s called “WORKING”. I worked two jobs, seven days a week, went to night school three times a week (for five years) to earn my degree in mechanical engineering. Some damn liberal NEVER wants to throw the word “privilege” at me, EVER!

[SkyPilot]

Rather than telling someone I am "better" than someone else (which lacks humility), I would confront them with the truth that God gives each of us certain gifts.

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith.

Romans 12:6

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 1:17

If someone has musical ability, incredible athleticism, mathematical acumen, communication skills, or the ability to demonstrate incredible love through service to God - all of those are gifts.

To show petty jealousy is sinful. To institute national programs and speech codes to stamp them out and attempt to inflict guilt on others because of God's gifts to us is pure Evil.

That is Communism, hatched right from the killing fields of Cambodia.

People need to watch that movie again. It has some very revisionist garbage (the hero worship of the liberal media, blaming the US military for crimes that were really the Communists, etc). But, the script could not get around telling the story without exposing the absolute evil of Marxism and Communism.

Today, under Obama's Amerika, we are instituting Communism.

[PGalt]

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.

I'll ask the tyrannical totalitarians to "check your privilege" right after I roll with a stream of obscenities.

OUTSTANDING work by Kurt Schlichter. Thanks for posting.

[bert]

And yet you are unequal....... you must become mediocre by sharing an abundance of the fruits of your labors with the lazy who shun initiative and drive because they can coerce you to give up your stuff.

Tragedy of inequality is liberalism that forces those that work to share with those that don’t work.

[csivils]

Great article. Be sure to throw the word offensive right back at them!

[Gaffer]

In a world where remarks can be examined in polite discourse, I’d ask the person who said “Check your privilege” to me to first explain the remark without using the word “white”, “Caucasian”, “honky”, “Westerner”, “slave owner [white]” et al. Then when they could not, I tell them that they were being racist and offensive.

[sauropod]

Good article.

[Alas Babylon!]

Money for nothing and your chicks for free...

[Tax-chick]

Good article. I don’t get in conversations with the kind of people he’s discussing: if they’re in my little bubble of home/church/Walmart, they don’t speak to me.

When my children criticize one another, “James is just lying there in bed!” I like to respond, “Oh, that’s ripe, coming from you!”

[sten]

i like this guy. definitely a recommended read for your friends that actually like the country

[bert]

they are offensive by being

the very fact they exist and breathe American air is offensive

[Steven Tyler]

....a happy, prosperous life is the result of some magic process...

The magic comes from your own Midichlorian (is pronounced MI-DEE-CLOOR-EE-AN) level, and that is not related to race.

That Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader clocked in at 27,700 was NOT due to his white skin

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Laziness and IQ go hand-in-hand. Take a look at the IQ chart of nations, and you’ll start to see the “inequality”. It won’t be surprising either.

Guess the hard workers are just a bunch of gestapo loving “racists” right libs?