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November 09, 2014

University professors attack white, heterosexual, Christian males for being "privileged”

Three professors have launched a “Check Your Privilege” campaign suggesting that if you are white, heterosexual, able-bodied, Christian, or male you are privileged

The “Check Your Privilege” campaign defines privilege as “unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group.”


Three professors at the University of San Francisco (USF) are claiming that if you are white, heterosexual, able-bodied, Christian, or male, you must “check your privilege,” as part of a campus-wide social marketing campaign that began last week.

"If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian Privilege," according to the new campaign, which defines privilege as “unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group.”


Ja’Nina Walker, a psychology professor at USF and a member of the “Check Your Privilege” campaign team, first came up with the idea when she realized the challenges of talking about people’s inherent privilege. According the San Francisco Foghorn, USF’s student newspaper, Walker believes the campaign will challenge students and faculty to recognize the structural inequalities around them.

“We just hope that people use this as an opportunity to think critically about the world around them and challenge themselves to really consider the implications of structural inequalities and how they, as an individual, can help mitigate the negative effects of social inequalities,” said Walker.

Walker, along with assistant professors Scott Murray and Sonja Poole—have distributed shirts and fliers around campus, each exhibiting privilege-checking criteria. Organizers say they originally planned to continue the campaign for two weeks, but now hope to schedule a discussion forum in the spring semester to continue the dialogue.

“In order to effectively advocate for others, one needs to have an awareness of self and the biases and positions within the society in which we live,” said Poole. “Privilege is a touchy subject and it is often unrecognized by those who have the most. It is important to identify and confront issues that affect marginalized people so that we can reduce social and economic injustice and increase societal well-being.”

The campaign has gone viral since organizers started planning it six months ago, and other colleges and universities across the country have requested the use of the material on their campuses, as well.



“I never expected this campaign to reach the audience that it has,” Walker told the San Francisco Foghorn. “Although there have been some negative responses, I would say 99% of the responses are positive and people are enjoying the campaign and what it stands for.”

“Becoming aware of privilege should not be a viewed as a burden or a source of guilt, but rather an opportunity to learn and be responsible so that we may work toward a more just and inclusive world,” one flier says.

Students contributors also aided the team in launching the campaign.

19 comments:

  1. If you believe that you can tell everyone to "Check your privilege" without thinking about it, you need to check your privilege.

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  2. What a load of "politically correct" (aka debate silencing, first amendment crushing, reverse rascim) bull sh*t

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  3. I believe "right" is a more useful term than "privilege", as the latter implies we should all be oppressed instead of just some of us.

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  4. I sometimes wounder what do you know about the white race, the fact the historicaly all races have had their sheer of wars, genocied and hatred amongs them.
    The present reality where "white robberbarons" rule the world, does that mean ALL whites are fortunate, aka a silver spoon up their sorry asses.
    I am astunedd and disturbed.
    WE may agree upon the latest wars are not only in europa, while its spreading into several other continents.
    What the uSSa does, dont mean White people are like that, a people witch is breeded up to be cannon fodder and braindead behound comprehensions.

    Dont white me, I know first hand what etnic hatred and slander is, old people relocated, and havent seen their home land for decades, and stil cept away, and I am all white.

    This article is pure manure, and is some of the wurst shitt I have read for years.
    This ignorance, arogance, and utter lack of historical credibility what so ever.

    peace

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  5. All those alleged privileged individuals should boycott this institution. Perhaps starting another new school that is not biased. Stop spending your hard earned money on these self entitled idiots, divest.

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  6. Mental Screening Candidates. SERIOUS low-self-esteem and many other mental issues. Any school that would allow these walking mental patients near their campuses needs be UNacredited. These guys are SERIOUSLY capable of coming to school and killing their own students.

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  7. Oh I understand this, all right. IT IS OUTRIGHT NIHILISM. The normal course of events is to categorize and class people together. In other words, What is the Rule? You judge an example of a trend or a thing according to the Rule, NOT the exception! This "white privilege" thing is meant to get people to think in the opposite direction! Can't you sheep understand when someone's trying to con you, to manipulate your thinking?

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  8. We are privileged, but it's biological, not institutional.

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  9. If you think you can determine other peoples priveleges you are an idiot.

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  10. OK, so it's privilege. So what?

    Both the campaign and comments are based on the assumption that privilege as such is bad, and having a privilege is an automatic accusation. Let's simply not make that assumption.

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  11. If you are a professor at a U.S. university spouting "liberal" hate speech you should not have a job. "Politically correct" hate speech still makes you an evil bigot. Certainly not qualified to teach at any university.

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  12. So . . . university professors wrote this? Methinkest this is proof positive of "affirmative action" run amok. Universities today are little more than outrageously overpriced finishing schools for the functionally illiterate graduates of our mediocre public high schools -- qualified only for positions in social work, car rental agencies, and fast food restaurants. Or, as university professors.

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  13. A White Christian living in his own White Christian country should at least get something out of it. Otherwise, why would he be living there? That's a question maybe the subversive Synagogue Of Satan Jews who are always behind this kind of crap should be asking themselves. Maybe taking their kike asses some place else is the solution to the problem of other people's privilege.

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  14. I don't know about you folks. But I think that some culling of so called professors is well overdue? Don't you think so ? It's time to reach for the SW Magnum 44 ??

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  15. hvaiallverden please turn on your "spellchecker," failure to do so makes your comments less than worthy of your thoughts.

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  16. What a brilliant reply! Thank you.

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  17. another brilliant reply. Thanks again.

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  18. Usually they get some stupid goy to front up the subversion.Better to pull the strings from behind the curtain.

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  19. The one good thing is that universities are slowly going down the tube.

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