[lbo-talk] Check your privilege?

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Nothing. You miss nothing. As usual. This is a move intended to end conversation and assert the speaker's authority, which s/he has in virtue of group membership rather than superior knowledge, information, reasoning, or argument. You, at this point, as a female type person, are entitled to tell me, a white male, to Check my privilege,which is supposed to shut me up. You, in turn, can be trumped by a black disabled lesbian, since you are an able bodied straight person of European extraction. In fact, birth. 

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On Aug 16, 2013, at 1:32 PM, "JOANNA  A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> I don't quite get this "check your privilege" business. 
> 
> Making people feel guilty is not a very good tactic if an ex student was correcting in defining "guilt" as "the suspicion that you ought to be feeling worse than you actually are." 
> 
> It also seems to be a divisive move that ends conversations... 
> 
> What am I missing? 
> 
> Joanna 
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