If told to check my privilege, my response would be, If I check my privilege, will you check your premises?
(You stupid @#$%$#@)

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

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.

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."

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...

Excellent. Thank you.

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

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."

I just recently checked my "white male privilege"
and was not too impressed. Last year I had to go to the emergency department for treatment and I had no health insurance. It cost me $800 cash. I recently got health insurance and had to go to the ED for the exact same thing, guess what I had to pay out of pocket. Eight Hundred US dollars. I have one of the best health insurance policies money can buy from BC/BS. How is it that non-white people do not have to pay anything ? Who has privilege ?

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

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

I have tried my best to be what I can be. Not what they want, but what I can be. Regulated beyond belief yet I'm still here. Made some friends and certainly some enemies. I found that answer not on my own just by listening, reading, studying and a lot of prayer. Still at times I struggle because of not understanding early in life. Being on the Gulch will suffice. No apologies from this end.

"I apologize for nothing" is a statement of reassurance and healthy pride. We all know quite well that we´ve got many things to be sorry for, because no one is perfect. This could be read along the lines of "the end justifies the means", but I consider it more a phrase for the damned than a phrase for the proud. If one respects their own codes or principles, those apologies are mearly formal and no more than skin deep. If one changes principles according to the circumstances then, well those people cannot even trust themselves...

...."and, get the hell out of my way!"

Kudos to Fortgang for a logical response. Unfortuntely, though much of what he said is quote worthy, it will go unrepeated and the ingraining of bias will continue. Merit is no longer a measure used with today's students.

HOORAY FOR THIS YOUNG AN, WE DESPARATELY NEED MANY MORE LIKE HIM.