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kleinbl00 · 3751 days ago · link · · parent · post: Children Who Need To Check Their Privilege - So today I sat my six year old cousin down to...
Yup. It's important in one's life to learn the distinction between an argument from logic and an argument from passion. "Check your privilege" is an argument from passion, not logic. Responding to it with logic will do nothing more than inflame the passion, while responding to it with passion will double you down into a fight you will never win by design - the discussion is entirely about how you aren't entitled to an opinion, so attempting to have one only proves you more wrong. If you're going to reassess your own values, use tools with one foot still in the world. There are plenty of arguments about privilege that don't start from "you are not a minority therefore you are oppressive by definition."So what do you do then, ignore it all?