A phrase used when someone is operating in a sheltered mindset of racial, sexual, national or other exceptionalism. This phrase is typically employed when someone is speaking in an arrogant or ignorant manner, or being smug or condescending as a result of privileged status that they were born into, or achieved by virtue of their race, class, or caste.
Things one would respond to with "Check your privilege":
1. If the ghetto is so bad, why don't they just move out?
2. Is racism really even an issue anymore?
3. If they're so poor, they should just get a better job.
4. Well of course they're losing their house, it was a poor investment. Serves them right.
5. My parents worked hard so I don't need a handout.
1. If the ghetto is so bad, why don't they just move out?
2. Is racism really even an issue anymore?
3. If they're so poor, they should just get a better job.
4. Well of course they're losing their house, it was a poor investment. Serves them right.
5. My parents worked hard so I don't need a handout.
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"There she goes, claiming sexist behaviour, just because I joked about her belonging in the kitchen".
"Fuckwit, thats pure dick privilege talking".
"Fuckwit, thats pure dick privilege talking".
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Get the privilege mug.A made up term by an old femcel named Peggy McIntosh. The term has arbitray criteria for which white people have unforeseen advantages as evidenced by nothing but cherry picked circumstances. It is essentially a new wave of bigotry disguised as anti-bigotry.
"See this Huffpost article? We have two different court cases from different states, involving different people, different laws, with different outcomes. The white criminal got less time than the black criminal! This is evidence of white privilege."
"Yes, but it appears there is more to these cases than the clickbait article. The black criminal has been a repeat offender and resisted. The white criminal made his first offence, entered a guilty plea, and turned himself in...."
"Stop mansplaining me. I am literally shaking right now"
"Yes, but it appears there is more to these cases than the clickbait article. The black criminal has been a repeat offender and resisted. The white criminal made his first offence, entered a guilty plea, and turned himself in...."
"Stop mansplaining me. I am literally shaking right now"
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This also applies when all the white people think you are Mexican and all the mexicans think you are white
This also applies when all the white people think you are Mexican and all the mexicans think you are white
Person1 Did you see how ryan got the new job
Person2 yeah, freaking ryan always gets shit like that it's racism
Person1 but he is Mexican too
Person2 yeah, half, he has that half white privilege
Person1 well shit.
Person2 yeah, freaking ryan always gets shit like that it's racism
Person1 but he is Mexican too
Person2 yeah, half, he has that half white privilege
Person1 well shit.
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