sarah jeong

Hahaha wow I’ve only seen white people tweet that New Republic check-your-privilege piece into my stream

You know what it is? White people just don’t know much about being silenced and dismissed. Like, yeah, it sucks. ASK US HOW WE KNOW

There’s a host of coping strategies and rhetorical moves for when you’re being unfairly silenced

I’m gonna go ahead and guess that certain demographics don’t get many chances to practice those. Suddenly “check-your-privilege” is ~scary~

If someone is abusing check-your-privilege to derail a conversation, you deal with it, just like with every other kind of derail

The funniest part of the TNR piece is the bit where the writer quotes a goddamn tumblr bio though

Someone who writes the Check Your Privilege At the Door tumblr only lists privileges instead of "personality, interests, or achievements"

lmao I wonder how a list of privileges might be a salient bio at a tumblr literally called “Check Your Privilege At the Door”