Why Is It Important To Check Your Privilege?

A privilege is defined as a special advantage, unearned benefit that is granted to a certain group at birth. Race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and many more attributes are included as privileges. Privileged people gain ease in society because they are considered to be normal. There is a sense of entitlement for these people because the immunities are portrayed every day on mass media, in the workplace, at school, and with authority figures. This social inequality is very unfair because what one is born into is entirely involuntary. An interesting expression has been used to cease anybody from saying anything negative towards a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or almost any other group. That phrase is ‘check your privilege’. The life one
It is important to know of the hardships of other races, but it is just as relevant to discuss the adversity of these groups. Males are hired over females, and also earn a higher paycheck. Male privilege means he can be careless with money or driving without it relating to his sex, dress as he pleases with less judgement, or even have promiscuous sex and be praised for it. As for the LGBT community, they are unable to get married in most places, cannot have public displays of affection without being ridiculed, and are not even accepted by a considerable amount of people. Religious groups other than Christians are sometimes declined work off for their religious holidays and cannot worship freely without fear of threats or violence. The lists of prejudiced and unfair treatment goes on and on. Western Michigan’s Check Your Privilege should have included more of this in their documentary, for it is just as meaningful as the favoritism of