fubarobfusco comments on The Craft And The Community: The Basics: Apologizing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 November 2013 06:15:03PM 1 point [-]

What is "check your privilege"?

In its worst form, the position that you're not allowed to have a view on an issue (or that any possible view is invalid) because you are not the oppressed party.

How about in its best form?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 November 2013 08:14:31PM *  4 points [-]

That when I have advantages you don't, I am less likely to notice the problems in our shared environment that my advantages compensate for than you are, and therefore when you discuss a problem in our shared environment that I don't experience, I ought not treat my own experience as definitive on the matter.

EDIT: When used in the second person imperative specifically, as here, it carries the additional implication that the person to whom it is addressed is violating that normative rule.