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Words by Sara Langston

oh god what is this: On privilege in this glorious age:

swanson-goldwater-rand:

Most people who say “check your privilege” (occasionally reinforcing the sentence with ‘fucking’ or ‘goddamn’) are discriminators and complainers.

Privilege is something you have to be born into, be it money, skin color, sex, et cetera.

So how do you make up for…

(Source: ostricatfairyshloof, via hatewizard)

  1. humanthedeathdance reblogged this from holy-ackbar-batman-its-a-trap and added:
    Allow me to clarify: “Check your privilege” is not an argument. It’s an “I have no rebuttal to your argument so I’m...
  2. holy-ackbar-batman-its-a-trap reblogged this from humanthedeathdance and added:
    We may not all have the same life experiences, but that does not make an argument invalid in any sense. You can’t use...
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  5. hatewizard reblogged this from kitten-tits and added:
    The reason I hate the discussion is solely because of the internet. It’s a catch all when you don’t agree with someone,...
  6. ubernutella reblogged this from anonsy-anonso and added:
    ^ Cosigned. “Check your privilege” is really just about “look, the statement you just made sounded ignorant, and like...