Liberals have a new word for what normal people call “success”
says
Kurt Schlichter (thanks to
Instapundit).
They call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the
result of some magic process related to where your
great-great-great-grandfather came from.
It’s the latest leftist argument tactic, which means it is a tactic designed to prevent any argument and to beat you into rhetorical submission. Conservatives, don’t play their game.
It’s easy to see that this notion that accomplishment comes not from
hard work but from some mysterious force, operating out there in the
ether, is essential to liberal thought. To excuse the dole-devouring
layabouts who form so much of the Democrat voting base, it is critical
that they undermine the achievements of those who support themselves. We
can’t have the American people thinking that hard work leads to
success; people might start asking why liberal constituencies don’t just
work harder instead of demanding more money from those who actually
produce something.
This “Check your privilege” meme is the newest trump card du jour
on college campuses and in other domains of progressive tyranny. It
morphed into existence from the “You racist!” wolf-cry that is now so
discredited that it produces little but snickers even among liberal
fellow travelers. After all, if everyone is racist – and to the
progressives, everyone is except themselves – then no one is really
racist. And it’s kind of hard to take seriously being called “racist” by
adherents of a political party that made a KKK kleagle its Senate
majority leader.
…The plain fact is that what they understand to be “privilege” is really
just what regular people understand is a “consequence.” It is a
consequence of hard work, of delaying gratification and of sacrifice. No
one came and bestowed this country upon us. We built it. Some of us
died doing so. If we have privilege, it was earned at Bunker Hill,
Gettysburg and Normandy. It’s not a function of skin tone or the number
of vowels in your name; it’s a function of character.
Unlike them, many of us have lived overseas, and often in rather
bullet-rich environs. Our life experience consists of more than reading
Herbert Marcuse and showing solidarity with oppressed Guatemalan banana
pickers by boycotting Chiquita. What we have today in this country is
not anything to be ashamed of or to apologize for, but to be proud of.
Their poisonous notion of privilege is really just another way for
liberals to pick winners and losers based not upon who has won or lost
in the real world, but upon who is useful and not useful to the
progressive project at any given moment.
This is why you see young people descended from Holocaust survivors
tagged as bearers of “privilege” when their tattooed, emaciated
grand-parents landed here with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Others who grew up in luxury get to bear the label of “unprivileged”
because ten generations ago some relative came from a particular
continent.
It’s idiocy. It’s immoral. We need to say so. For too long we’ve put up with this silliness.
What’s particularly amusing when you push back on these clowns is that
they are so surprised to experience resistance to their petty fascism.
Many of them, being the special snowflakes that they are, have never had
anyone express to them the notion that they might be wrong. University
administrators are too terrified of these whiny pipsqueaks to correct
them. Certainly their helicopter parents never did – Gaia forbid that
their little psyches be harmed by confronting them with their
foolishness.
For too long we conservatives have played nicely, being good sports
about being slandered and returning respect when offered contempt. It
didn’t work. It’s time to try something new. And that something new is
not taking guff from some 20 year-old gender studies major with a stupid
tribal tatt, a sense of entitlement and a big mouth.
What they say is privilege is what we say is a reward for doing more
with our lives than waiting for Uncle Sucker to refill our EBT cards.
“Privilege” is a result of not being a human sloth, of not doing drugs,
of not having kids we can’t afford them, and of not living our lives as a
practical exercise in chaos theory.
To see a number of ways to answer the various accusations of liberals, both in America and abroad, don't forget to check out
Americans Anonymous, which gives a myriad of examples…
