Whenever someone tells me to “check my privilege”, I like to respond with “root access confirmed”.
Brian Garrett
January 21, 2016
Comment to Indistinguishable from Reality
[To understand this, and find it absolutely hilarious, it helps to be a computer geek.—Joe]
chmod +s
I’d reply `sudo make me a sandwich`
“Accuse others of what you do.” The “check your privilege” crowd thus reveals itself. They want a coercion-based society, believing they’ll have privilege as a result.
I don’t know about the code stuff.
Oh, gawd. I just flashed on an image of Vin Diesel walking around in costume saying “I am Root”.
I’d rather respond to “check your privilege” with “in your case, chmod -x”.
(For the non-Unix folk, that’s how you take something that runs as a program and make it inert.)
I haven’t been asked to “check my privilege”, but I am prepared to reply, “Yep, got mine. Got a little extra, too, wanna buy some?”
My response would be along the lines of “I don’t have the appropriate -10 manual on hand.”