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“Check your privilege!” It happened again last week. I was speaking about feminism to a large and vocal audience and my views were, rightly, coming under scrutiny. I was accused of criticizing #MeToo ...
Activists are calling for awareness and change following the death of George Floyd and protests across the country. Now, a new challenge trending on TikTok urges users to examine the privileges they ...
Privileges are the benefits and advantages you have over someone else because of your gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, health, level of education, physical ability, and/or socioeconomic ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As seen on The Michigan Daily’s Facebook page and website in the comments of my article about the ...
I believe the “check your privilege” messaging has grown tiresome for many and has reached its peak of tolerance. It definitely has for this old gal. It wasn’t long ago that a lady city councilor ...
I first heard the word "privilege" as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in the early-mid 1990s. As a student of color on campus who had grown up with a fair amount of racism, I quite ...
The year 2014 has been a big one for critical theories and modern social justice movements — feminism, LGBT rights, etc. — at least in terms of gaining Internet traction, and a big part of that has ...
Months ago, I witnessed a Black man attempting to censor a Black woman’s writing. He told her there was no need to write a “divisive” piece because he’s already speaking up for Black women. What this ...
Universities are hothouses for ideas, a lot of them bad. Fortunately, most die a rapid death from mockery. But the trending campus admonishment to "check your privilege" is actually a good one. The ...
Instead of fighting injustice, we end up fighting each other. I was a recent college grad, passionate about social justice and a little drunk on idealism, and his pragmatism struck me. Here was a ...