It may feel outdated now. But in the early 2010s, back when I was first immersing myself in social justice activism, one of the most common phrases you’d hear social justice activists say to one another was: “Check your privilege.” The phrase “check your privilege” has since fallen out of fashion, of course, along with the phrase “social justice activist” and its more disparaging variant “social justice warrior.” It’s all been reduced to the simple catch-all “woke” — a shift that reflects the Right’s success in reframing and reclaiming the language we’d built a decade-and-a-half ago. In the early 2010s, … Continue reading Self-Indulgently Checking My Privilege in February 2025