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The Left’s New Censorship of Free Speech: “Check Your Privilege”
Townhall.com ^ | May 26, 2014 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 05/26/2014 8:39:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/26/2014 8:39:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Before you read and critique this article, you need to “check your privilege” - the left’s latest phrase to silence free speech from conservatives, a silly sounding but totalitarian new phrase.

The left can kiss my *ss.

The more totalitarian they become, the bigger my mouth's gonna get.

2 posted on 05/26/2014 8:41:49 AM PDT by skeeter
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Check your professional-victim status.


3 posted on 05/26/2014 8:46:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Kaslin

So preferential hiring practices, college entrance, loans, etc. etc. don’t make a race the favored group?

None of those applies to whites.

As a white who was turned down for a job in the past specifically because of my race I can tell you whites are far more likely to be victims of racism these days.


4 posted on 05/26/2014 8:47:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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5 posted on 05/26/2014 8:49:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The “fourth estate”has morphed into a 5th column)
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Right...the Morally Superior Judges, wagging their greasy fingers at everyone else.

Don’t say things we don’t approve of, or we’ll have the Negro from Barbados investigate you.

Hilarious that they’re recycling the White Privilege meme 40 years later.

It’s all they have left to explain continued Black failure in society. It can’t be lack of spending, affirmative action, social promotion, busing, sitting next to whites in school (the osmosis theory, I guess)...they tried all that.

So it must be Whitey. He gots dem pribileges, dat’s how he be winnin’!

Yeah, that’s it! We figured it out!

Now hand over the cash, Casper.


6 posted on 05/26/2014 8:52:32 AM PDT by Regulator
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Mine too


7 posted on 05/26/2014 8:53:30 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Conservatives should consciously deprive progresses of the use of the word, "privileged" as it is used for example in this article. It is to put conservatives on the defensive before the argument is joined.

I suggest substituting, "accomplished" as a descriptive term for people who have succeeded and who, as a result, have justly received the wages of success. There is nothing inherently "privileged" about someone who has earned a great deal of money. Indeed, there is nothing "privileged" about inheriting a great deal of money, that person is simply the beneficiary of someone else's accomplishment. The ability to bequeath wealth is an incentive to create wealth and therefore enriches everyone in a just society.

If we don't like to substitute "accomplished" we can say "virtuous." but substitute something we should.


8 posted on 05/26/2014 8:56:53 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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The Left will never, ever stop. They are an inferior sort, lacking character, hollow, envious, not bright, they mouth phrases they barely and rarely comprehend. They are a vacuum, non-sentient, unaware, a black hole of unfulfilled and unfulfillable fantasies.

They make me yawn frankly. I have never heard anything provocative (as in gee, I never thought of that) spew out of their ill-read, ill-educated, mouths.

I pity them. Stupidity cannot be overcome. The ones that manage a triple diget IQ, well, they have no excuse do they?

The most banal, sophomoric, pointless discussion of any topic will always occur with a Leftist. There is more actual mental computing power in a dessicated dead fly on the window sill than you will ever find in a Liberal.

I think was that harsh don’t you? I don’t care. I really don’t. The truth really does hurt.


9 posted on 05/26/2014 8:58:22 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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Check your I.Q., your punching weight and your testicles and get back to me.


10 posted on 05/26/2014 8:59:23 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Their is one and only one reason for the creation of the concept of "white privelege": to create an excuse to hate poor and working class white people and cut them completely off from the future utopia that was originally formulated in their name. Contemporary Leftism is now officially reverse Nazism.

Let's hope the Left continues to think the white race is a social construct. If they ever come to believe it actually exists they will advocate its extermination (though I'm sure wealthy liberal whites will not be touched).

11 posted on 05/26/2014 9:00:47 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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So called “White privilege” would effectively and retroactively support the mainstream media’s bias. Excuse me that’s an understatement...”white privilege” raises mainstream media’s bias to leftist piety.

The bottom line... Nobody is watching the mainstream media any more. And... The Democrats are going to get pummeled in the coming November elections. Do they want to confront that reality or self righteously taught their personal acknowledgement of “white privilege”.

These people have enormous egos that should not be underestimated and they have had those egos stroked for years -making them downright nasty people.

They are attempting to use the principle of “constructive trust”, but to suit their own ends...as always, the ends justify the means.


12 posted on 05/26/2014 9:06:44 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Now, let’s look at all the contributions that these “PRIVILEDGED” class have given the world. From Aristotle to the present. Everything we now use have come from the minds of these “PRIVILEDGED” classes of people, that these very ignorant people are lambasting. Yep, all of these things that we now use, on a daily basis, have come from the minds of these “PRIVILEDGED” white males. Had it not been for these “PRIVILEDGED” white males, we’d still be living in caves and eating our food raw.


13 posted on 05/26/2014 9:09:46 AM PDT by gingerbread
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Who are those three privileged white males in the picture?
Isn’t the one on the left Pajama Boy?


14 posted on 05/26/2014 9:15:08 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Kaslin
Check your privilege"

Check your premises.

15 posted on 05/26/2014 9:19:39 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: nathanbedford

Or “deserving”.

I agree with you, to even engage them in the argument is to accept their premise which means you’ve lost the argument.

Perhaps the proper answer would be “f**k you”


16 posted on 05/26/2014 9:22:07 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Kaslin

Pure unadulterated Marxism: there is no truth only class interest.


17 posted on 05/26/2014 9:29:04 AM PDT by all the best (sat`~!)
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Just like they are doing to guns, lets get their camera makers, computer manufactures, SD cards hold way to much info(limit them to 10kb), etc to be sued for to fast of video, or to long/powerful lenses, etc. The list can be long! lol

Just like the alleged Benghazi youtube video, they need to sue youtube, the camera makers, the editors, memory card makers, computer man., etc. The list is infinite!


18 posted on 05/26/2014 9:32:14 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Did you just get off the short bus or what?)
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I am a white Christian in America in 2014.
I receive no privilege for my race or my religion now, or in the past, and I seek none in the future.
Nor did my hard working, honest, law abiding, self-resonsible ancestors.
Therefore, I will exercise my First Amendment free speech right as I always have, free of any politically correct, or "white privilege" constraints.
19 posted on 05/26/2014 9:46:21 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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Yes, isn’t it strange that millions of people try legally and illegally to get into a country where non-white/males are treated so horribly? We live in a country where a poor black girl named Oprah Winfrey became a billionaire three times over. I guess all that white male privilege prevented her from getting that fourth billion. (smirk)


20 posted on 05/26/2014 9:55:23 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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