Whether you're able-bodied, cis, white, straight, or male, consider using your privilege next year to be an ally to people from communities that are currently getting a raw deal in our current political climate, including (but not limited to!) women, LGBTQ people, Native people, and people of color.
"Check your privilege" means "consider how your privilege affects what you have just said or done".
It's nice to praise an America that allowed your Jewish immigrant grandfather to build a business, but it's useful to recognise that at the same time in America, black people were being denied loans and forced to live in racially segregated slums – you're meant to check your privilege by considering other people's stories, not your own.
It's nice to praise an America that allowed your Jewish immigrant grandfather to build a business, but it's useful to recognize that that at the same time in America, black people were being denied loans and forced to live in racially segregated slums you're meant to check your privilege by considering other people's stories, not your own.
Whatever I've done, whatever I do now, I consider a privilege.
Many tournaments, Ms. Taps said, consider the privilege of seeing the world's greatest players up close reward enough.
I'd started a small business when my twin daughters, now 16, were four, and this allowed me what I consider the privilege of having as much time as I wanted.
LA's desperate and dying will pay anything for a place on a craft bound for Elysium, only to be shot down by military rulers who consider their privilege a right, and self-preservation a moral absolute.
Well, consider my privilege well and truly checked.
How can I say that is so when, these days, staying at home with your kids is considered a privilege?
