getting someone to acknowledge their own inherent privileges and reminding them to put them aside in order to better understand another human's plight.
"...Bruce Jenner...."
PC Principal- "Did you just say 'BRUCE'?! It's not Bruce fuckin' Jenner! It's Caitlyn, and she's a fuckin' stunning woman. You need to check your privilege."
PC Principal- "Did you just say 'BRUCE'?! It's not Bruce fuckin' Jenner! It's Caitlyn, and she's a fuckin' stunning woman. You need to check your privilege."
by Mrs.Stkrdknmibalz November 18, 2015
Get the Check your privilege mug.A belief that adults can do and say whatever they want without social backlash or being reprimanded by others for their actions.
When you're a kid, most adults will use their Grown-Up Privilege by making you apologize for swearing, making sex jokes, and for choosing to not play with toys.
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This guy is successful not because he worked for decades to be in the place he is right now, but because his whiteness and his white privilege.
by ospreay March 19, 2020
Get the white privilege mug.White people who underestimate how bad a problem is by default because they are never personally exposed to that problem. * It is not a personal attack or a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.
White guy: There's a K9 police cruiser. Let me look inside.
Black guy: Dude, get away from that car!!! Do you wanna be arrested?!?
White guy: Arrested?!? It's not illegal to look in a cop car.
Black guy: Don't worry about it, that's just your white privilege talking.
Black guy: Dude, get away from that car!!! Do you wanna be arrested?!?
White guy: Arrested?!? It's not illegal to look in a cop car.
Black guy: Don't worry about it, that's just your white privilege talking.
by Chad T. Worthingtons September 18, 2017
Get the White Privilege mug.A myth. Used by far-left advocates as a way to make people think they’re being oppressed in America, despite everyone enjoying similar equal rights under the Constitutional Amendments. Also used to shame anyone who happens to be descended from Europeans; as well as a buzzword used to defend criminals by saying it’s not they’re fault that they commit crime, they’ve been “oppressed.”
Omg! Can you believe that criminal who robbed a bank at gunpoint just got shot?! Those whitey cops just can’t see past their generational privilege!!
by Constantinople1453 June 18, 2020
Get the Generational Privilege mug.The man was stunned by a sign that read "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" .... his white trash privilege had betrayed him yet again.
by pastana March 3, 2015
Get the white trash privilege mug.The belief that white individual have a social or economic advantage as a consequence of their skin colour. Typically used when an individual who is not white, asserts that a white individual's success is not down to good choice but because of their race. People who are against this come in two forms, some individuals believe that white privilege does not exist and that it is racist to use this term. While others believe that while this term is not racist, it is used in the wrong context, as most of the time this term is used in the concreate instead of the abstract.
Non white individual : Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are only successful because they are white.
White individual: That's racist, and used in the incorrect context
Non white individual : Its not racist to point out a person's white privilege. You saying that is showing your white privilege
White individual: That's racist, and used in the incorrect context
Non white individual : Its not racist to point out a person's white privilege. You saying that is showing your white privilege
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