Traditionally, privilege is defined as a certain advantage that a person or a group of people may have over others. In the House of Commons, to check one’s privilege actually used to mean to that your constitutional rights and immunities ensured that you couldn’t be sued for what was said in the House—it allowed for the free exchange of ideas that are so key to a democracy. It was a good thing.
> Once upon a time, there were signs in the parks that said: “No Blacks or Jews allowed.”
What parks are these? I didn't think there were enough blacks in the UK prior to, say, WW2, and during it discrimination against black servicemen was swiftly prohibited. Admittedly, as an American I'm far from an expert on UK history.
Ah, I assumed you were talking about the UK after the mention of the House of Commons. It sounds odd for the US though. While we did have a de jure racial caste system excluding blacks, that didn't apply to Jews. The Confederacy, for example, had a Jewish Secretary of War.
> Once upon a time, there were signs in the parks that said: “No Blacks or Jews allowed.”
What parks are these? I didn't think there were enough blacks in the UK prior to, say, WW2, and during it discrimination against black servicemen was swiftly prohibited. Admittedly, as an American I'm far from an expert on UK history.
This would have been in the U.S. and Canada. I'm not sure about the UK.
Ah, I assumed you were talking about the UK after the mention of the House of Commons. It sounds odd for the US though. While we did have a de jure racial caste system excluding blacks, that didn't apply to Jews. The Confederacy, for example, had a Jewish Secretary of War.