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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

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[GunnerKrigg Court]

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[The Avengers]

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[French & Saunders]

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[X-Men/Marvel Universe]

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[Tron: Uprising]

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[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]

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[Homestuck]

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[True Grit]

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[Saya no Uta]

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[The Silmarillion]

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[Homestuck]

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[Supernatural]

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[Homestuck]

Check your privelege, OP.

Getting that comment out of the way before the other 800 anons come to say the same thing because dey s0 clevar.

You know I kinda do the same thing? Just because Kankri is such a good example of the extreme fringe overzealous SJWs that it makes me less angry to look at their bullshit when all I can see is a dummy who wears an oversized sweater and doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

I hate that phrase with a vengeance.

Check your vengeance.

I've never understood it tbh. Check my privilege? Checked, and it's awesome. Why would anyone who has privilege shut up because of it or fight to eliminate it.

it benefits the holder

or fight to eliminate it.

Justice?

Don't get me wrong, I think lots of SJWs are parodies of themselves.

But there are lots of people who see injustice and are willing to fight it even if it benefits them. They're called good people, or at least people who are trying to be good.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-01-04 03:25 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2013-01-04 04:20 (UTC) - Expand

Some people have empathy, or want to try a little to make their community and world a more equal and accepting place by humbling their inherent privilege. I don't get it either.

(Anonymous) - 2013-01-04 03:27 (UTC) - Expand

I think the idea behind the phrase is more "recognise you have privilege because it doesn't look like you realise it". Though by now it's really just become one of those catchphrases.

I really hate it and it's been said to me online, what I didn't get at the time was that the person has no idea who I am, and in fact I wrote a reply explaining that the discrimination that had happened to the OP in question had in fact happened to me. I felt so angry at being judged by complete strangers on the internet, just because they didn't like my turn of phrase.

Anyhow in fact I deleted all the justification because I felt it was none of their business. I just pointed out that they didn't know me, and how dare they judge.

I don't think anyone has the right to tell people they are "privileged" You don't know what demons they have, what their life has been like, or is like. It just makes me so angry.

When everybody on the internet has this reaction, Homestuck will have done a great service to the world.

I fucking hate how Kankri is used by the ignorant to shitsmear SJ as a whole, just like extremist SJWs are used as an excuse to shout down and belittle every socially-conscious opinion.

examples please?

Naw, I think he's mainly used to make fun of extremist SJWs in order to wrest some humor out of their overbearing presence.

QED.

And thats why we have Porrim.

Oh but she's easy. She's a feminist in a matriarchy. You can easily twist her to say she's just the human equivalent of a white knight.

yeah-- if people are going to use alpha trolls in order to analyze social justice or whatever, they need to remember that porrim is the gallant to kankri's goofus

I see it as something that has a theoretically useful purpose but has been corrupted by SJWs to the point where you really can't do anything with it anymore. I mean, it's nice to have a shorthand for "that thing you just said is douchey because you're making a joke out of a hardship/oppression that you're not ever likely to experience", but given whom "check your privilege" has become associated with, I think I'll stick to the long-hand version when that needs to be said.

I'd rather stick to the long version myself, it can be said in different ways and is far more prone to compassion, and teaching.

"check your privilege" is just a crass buzzword now, it has no meaning and it just used to shout down any and all disagreeable opinions. hell "check your privilege" is almost a meme now, if it isn't already.

femme_androgyne - 2013-01-04 03:28 (UTC) - Expand

The reason Kankri is so hilarious is because people like him actually exist, so I don't blame you, OP.

there wa2 a 2ecret a whiile back that ii loved and 2tiill keep a2 headcanon: all anon2 on f!2 are troll2.

triggered

But no, in all seriousness I probably could have written this secret too. When Kankri was introduced I was laughing myself sick at everyone that was SO OMG OFFENDED that Hussie was basically 'mocking' them. The point went so far over their heads it was somewhere in the vicinity of Mars.

This.