AND AT HARVARD... – AT 9:05 A.M. ET:  Related to our first post below, there has been a politically correct development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.  Jack Kennedy must be rolling in his grave.  From Breitbart: 

If you plan to attend Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, better get oriented for your orientation; you may be privileged.

But don’t worry; there’s always room for spiritual growth. The school is adding a class titled “Checking Your Privilege 101” because of pressure from student activists, and that class will be part of your orientation!

Lucky you! Reetu Mody, a first-year masters student in public policy and a campus activist, exclaimed, “We’re at one of the most powerful institutions in the world, yet we never critically examine power and privilege and what it means to have access to this power. We’re excited to have the administration on board for training all Harvard Kennedy School first years.”

The attack on those who come from walks of life without a sob story to tell engulfed Princeton freshman Tal Fortgang, who wrote an article for the Princeton Tory in which he stated that calls to “check his privilege” – meaning to feel his shortcomings in empathy due to his “privileged” background – “threaten to strike down opinions without regard for their merits” and “solely on the basis of the person that voiced them.” Fortgang’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors, but apparently their success after their World War II travails is cause for denigrating their grandson.

COMMENT:  The "check your privilege" crowd is basically made up of old, leftist failure merchants.  They love failure.  They wallow in it.  Success, accomplishment, are suspected.  Must be the result of privilege.  Could never be the result of hard work and study.

I'll check my privilege when they check their ignorance.

May 14, 2014