You've perhaps seen a libertard at work. It often goes something like this :

The schema of this comedy bit muchly beloved by a subgroup of amateur comedians (who then apply it every chance they get) works something like this : foil says something banal. Comedian launches into complex tirade about the malignancy of the banal, constructed out of strawmen of a particular brand and then extracts himself over the protestations of the foil with the fixed phrase "Check your privilege!".

The properties that make a good such bit are a wide hook while the properties that make a good amateur sit-down comedian are an ability to fake indignation. No communication is required at any point during the entire procedure, at all. In point of fact, the amateur comedian could deliver his speech to someone that didn't even speak the language with exactly the same effect, which is to say his smug look of satisfaction and the baseless implication that he has "done his part" to make the world a better place.

The "no communication required" cheap fakeness closely relates the "check your privilege" comedy routine to the various other sophistic currents in contemporary society, such as the pick up artists. In fact we probably wouldn't be too far off from the truth to imagine that they're basically the same thing for slightly different audiences, and where one "picks up" a certain type of confused adolescent female, one equally hits on a different type of equally confused, equally adolescent female by engaging in this particular routine within her earshot.

After all the process has the various properties that'd recommend it to the very shy, desocialised, marginal adolescent mind that libertards by the very definition are : a pretense to manhood, a pretense to culture and knowledge, a pretense to superiority. It's also short and unlikely to result in a beating. What more could you ask for, as a tween with no money, no clue and no social or political power whatsoever ?

As these things usually work, it's trivial for the actually knowlegeable, actually powerful, actually rich, actually central (which is to say privileged, yes, of course! as it should be, after all!) to construct the equivalent. Lo and behold :

Henry

FGM is concentrated in Somalia (98 percent of women affected), Guinea (96 percent), Djibouti (93 percent), Egypt (91 percent), Eritrea (89 percent), Mali (89 percent), Sierra Leone (88 percent), Sudan (88 percent), Gambia (76 percent), Burkina Faso (76 percent), Ethiopia (74 percent), Mauritania (69 percent), Liberia (66 percent), Guinea-Bissau (50 percent). We shall let you guess what FGM means.

Anais Frontal gyroscopic malignatophryxia. Henry Mnop.

Anais Well I'm never going to guess correctly... malnutrition? Henry Genital mutilation.

Anais 98...what. Henry Yes.

Anais WHAT. Henry Egypt. Like, of the women I knew there ? All ?

Anais I dont think I'm joking about Djibouti anymore ;/ Henry You thought it's a weird marginal thing didn't you. There are in fact more women with a badly cut, sore cunt than there are women in the US.

Anais Well I thought it was a marginal thing generally but more prevalent in Africa/Middle East. I didn't think anywhere near 98 percent. Or over 50, rly. Henry Myeah. For 50 years they've been trying to end it.

Anais Such bullshit. Henry It's illegal pretty much in all those countries.

Anais Yeah well... Henry Which is fucking horrid cultural imperialism, of the worst kind. What did these supposedly "moral" but really retarded laws do ? They fucked up the law environment in the poor countries. Now they'll NEVER be law abiding places.

Anais Well I don't know about never. They can have some war or some revolution and eventually pull out abiding, can't they? Or the idea is then it's a different place? Henry The idea is that the lawlessness has been given excellent precedent, as every family has clear and serious practice in illegallity. If i wanted to hide a criminal there ? "Well pops, hide him." "What do you mean it's illegal ? You got your baby girl cut, didn't you ?"

Anais Ah. Yeah.

Fifty years you've been at it, dear "progressives". Fifty years you've been at it. The result ? Zero. Tell me more about how you're fighting the layer in the ozone hole, the globing of concept of warmness, space aliens and gojira. In a world where a couple hundred million women make their family clitoris sandwich when they come of age, your bizarro ebullitions of nonsense are nothing but a rounding error. All of it, the aggregate agreement between powerless, meaningless, pointless cocklets and cuntlets on English language social media (all of it!) is but a rounding error in this world. So check your progress!

Check your progress, and if any fuckwit bothers you with the privilege crap, send them here :

<a href=http://trilema.com/2013/check-your-progress/>Check your progress</a>!

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