[lbo-talk] Check your privilege: Rise of the Post-New Left political vocabulary

[robert wood]

I don't think it's going to bring new folks into the movement, but I've
seen it cause folks to rethink their behavior within activist circles
within certain contexts.  I don't think its some kind of universal solvent,
obviously.  Robert Wood

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Joseph S Barrera III <joe-ml at barrera.org>wrote:


> On 02/04/2014 05:13 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>
>>   On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  This is babbling nonsense. "Check your privilege" is simple bullshit.
>>>> Or it
>>>> could be a deliberate attempt to sabotage political discussion.
>>>>
>>> I'm strongly with Carrol on this one. 'Privilege' is the stinkiest red
>> herring
>> ever dragged across the trail.
>>
>
> Telling someone to "check their privilege" is one of the quickest ways of
> getting them to stop listening to you.
>
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