“Check my privilege? I just did, and it’s doing great.” – @KurtSchlichter

An amusing in-your-face to start your morning:

This “Check your privilege” meme is the newest trump card du jour on college campuses and in other domains of progressive tyranny. It morphed into existence from the “You racist!” wolf-cry that is now so discredited that it produces little but snickers even among liberal fellow travelers. After all, if everyone is racist – and to the progressives, everyone is except themselves – then no one is really racist. And it’s kind of hard to take seriously being called “racist” by adherents of a political party that made a KKK kleagle its Senate majority leader.

So how do we deal with this idiocy?

The proper response to the privilege gambit is laughter. The super-serious zealots of progressivism hate being laughed at, but there’s really no other appropriate response outside of a stream of obscenities. The privilege game is designed to circumvent arguments based on reason and facts and evidence, so the way to win it is to defeat it on its own terms.

Call: “Check your privilege!”

Response: “What you call ‘privilege’ is just me being better than you.”

A bit more than I like to excerpt, but I think that Kurt Schlichter will forgive me just this one time. That’s the problem with really cutting loose like he did; makes it hard to know when to stop cutting and pasting.  At any rate: read the while thing, as the man says.

Moe Lane

PS: I think that I may try Thanks for admitting that you’re inferior to me! as a response, on those regrettably infrequent times that I get specifically trolled.  The response might be entertaining.