Princeton freshman wrote an essay after a classmate told him to “check your privilege”

NEW YORK TIMES: …“The phrase handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laserlike at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and the nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung,” [Tal Fortgang] wrote…

He was hailed on the right, his piece used as evidence that America’s universities are hopelessly liberal. Conservative bloggers and national publications picked up his cause…

The reaction on the left was equally strident, with other students challenging his position and saying his own words were evidence that he had failed to understand the phrase… (more)

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