I like your response. (Note to self: put this in verbal arsenal.)

Jan

I've long since forgotten how I first found Fred, but I've been reading his site for many years. New visitors will want to set aside a few hours for the dozens of columns he has archived.

What more of a reason is needed to destroy the Department of Education?

I think I "checked my privilege" when I decided to be a landlord. We rent to any who can afford and qualify for the required rent. Right now I am being schooled in the eviction laws and the new US Bankruptcy laws. The new chapter 7 protects the debtor from leases as well as loans and promissory notes. And, while under the veil of the court he can live free in my property, until the bankruptcy is discharged. Let's see, He was late a month when I filed for eviction, and on the last day before the hearing he filed his chapter 7. The attorney tells me those cases take about 4 months to be discharged. Add a couple of weeks to get a red tag and arrange a set out with the bailiff, and he's got 6 months. We have filed a motion to remove the stay on the eviction. It might save a couple of months. Or the judge may say no.

This is my first eviction. Education is always expensive, and when I'm done I will know how to avoid much of this.

In a few months I will again get to "check my privilege" at the front door of this property while I work to put it back together after this guy has had six months to trash the place. He has played a winning hand, because he knows more about the system than I. What he doesn't realize is he is playing that winning hand at the loser's table. When we are done, I will have a desirable property to sell or lease and he will only qualify for sub standard section 8 housing.

she actually graduated in the top of her class in English at U of WI. Then she worked for teach america the appropriate 2 years and then to Harvard. These students are on a track to get the right "experience" and degrees from the right schools to fast-track them into govt positions.

thanks Rex. How did you find this guy? Consider posting the article. More gulchers will get to see it!

That is better than a degree in 13th Century fingerprinting with an emphasis in blue, but not much. It must be a degree for those who have difficulty getting a degree in Education. Who hires someone with a degree in literacy? One ends to be literate, not have a degree in it.
Cheers.

Sounds like she'll soon line up a job with the government if she wants one. Literacy obviously well equips its graduates with all the skills necessary to run the world.

hi straight. My friend's daughter just graduated from Harvard with a graduate degree in ...wait for it.....Literacy.

Fred Reed, a columnist whom I recommend highly, has a suggested response to charges of racism:

http://www.fredoneverything.net/Laudable...

I would suggest a similar response to "check your privilege." Something like pulling the front of your pants out, looking down, and saying "Yup, still there."

My response would be:

"Racism is a form of collectivism. Therefore, an individualist cannot be a racist."

I would have responded by saying "Check your entitlement!"

Judging by the idiocy that is taught in the Ivy League, and the damage Ivy League alums have done to our country exercising what they see as their right to run it, I don't think it's a priviledge to go to an Ivy league school. I think many of their graduates come out stupider than they when they went in, not to mention up to a quarter of a million dollars in debt. See "Condolences, Your Kid Got Into Harvard," from straightlinelogic.com:

http://www.straightlinelogic.com/straigh...

This is a form of bullying. And racist, no? I think they should check their bull shit.

Excellent. Thank you.

Check your privilege assumes much, and you know what happens when you assume.

Typical of the Ivy League elitist's. One is there ONLY as a privilege, in their professorial minds. And some are more privileged than other based NOT ON MERIT, but on ones socio-economic and political affiliations.

The term could be turned into a pejorative against those who received a privilege without merit by saying " Check your merit to question mine."

I have checked my privilege and my merit, and I too, apologize for nothing.
Thanks for posting KH
Cheers

This is just simple the poisoning the well, a form of ad hominem.
It's supposed to sound sophisticated or something, but it's an age-old logical fallacy. The only response really needed is "argument ad hominem."