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Check your privilege

It seems the propaganda operations at some of our allegedly best universities are reaching those one would expect in fascist nations.  Read this: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/30/going-viral-princeton-university-students-bold-response-after-allegedly-being-told-repeatedly-to-check-your-privilege/

Here is the point I would make: this young man is CLEARLY  privileged, but not as a result of belonging to some racial, economic or social group.  He was privileged in growing up in a family which was close, and which preached the value of hard work and education.

Poverty is no barrier, in this country, to becoming rich.  Being black is no barrier. Laziness and a sense of entitlement are.  If you want the boat to swim in to you, you are, in the only sense that matters, underprivileged.

And we need to be clear that class-based thinking is the categorical antithesis of personal morality, personal responsibility, personal freedom, personal choice.  It quite literally teaches that you are HELPLESS unless one of these fascist thugs comes down from above and pulls you out by pushing someone else down.

This pattern of thought teaches ONLY ugliness, hate and greed.  It has no place anywhere that wants to use the word Liberal.