Check Your Privilege

Internet, 2007

An intellectual™-sounding insult used by rich white kids, who want to look cool to their professor and other lesser-enlightened types.

In 1998, arch-idiot Peggy McIntosh followed up her previous disaster journal entry with a sequel: “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”. But this one had checklists. After word spread on WMST-L, feminist blogs all over the internet began parroting the trendy new checklist idea.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=check+privilege
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=check+privilege
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_McIntosh
• https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf