"Check your privilege" is an absurd saying if you say it just because of someone's race or gender.

I understand that white people and men have always had privileges while African Americans, Native Americans, women ect were discriminated against. I understand that American Indians and African Americans have higher poverty rates as a directs result of the racism that existed in America and which still exists today to a certain extent. Many Native Americans for example are poor and suffer from substance abuse as a result of the trauma they faced in boarding schools they were forced to attend. They were beaten for speaking their native languages and sexually abused. It's ok to say that as a general rule white people have it easy compared to minority groups and many white people are middle or upper class because society and laws gave their more opportunities hundreds and even just dozens of years ago. But to assume that someone automatically had it great in life just because they're white or a man or rich is absurd. You don't know their life story and you don't know what they have dealt with. They might have had it worse than the middle class black person or even the poor black person. White people and males can experience with sexual, mental and physical abuse. Imagine if your a rich white man who was sexually abused by your step father every day for 11 years and someone tells you to check your privilege with our knowing what you've been through. Imagine being a white women whose husband beat her and raped her every day and than someone tells you to check your privilege assuming just because your white you had it great and had advantages even though you were scared of the next rape and beating every day for years. Imagine if you are a Bosnian muslim who came to America after the Bosnian war in the 1990s. During that war 30,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed in a genocide. Women were forced into rape camps, people were beaten and lost family member. They certainly didn't benefit from Americas racist passed like some people assume all white people did. Imagine this Bosnian lost their entire family and was in a rape camp and came to America with nothing and built their way up through hard work but someone tells them the reason they have what they do is because of racism when they them selves experienced horrible racism and worked for everything they have. Imagine if your a poor white male who did not help building your way up to becoming a rich man and did it all through hard work and someone assumes you had help getting where you are just because your white and a man. What if you are a white Tatar and you lived in a nazi work camp in the 1940s and came here poor. You didn't benefit from racism you were in a nazi camp and you were a victim of it. What if you are Russian and you escaped the Soviet Union where lived under a dictatorship. You certainly did not benefit from Americas racist passed. Even for white people whose ancestors came to America hundreds of years ago many of them were discriminated against of they were Irish, Italian, catholic ect . Even of you have ancestors benefited from racism like many white people do you still can live a hard life of your poor, homeless, sexually abused, physically abused, mentally abused, you could have lost a child, you could have had cancer growing up or have had a sibling with cancer, you could be physically disabled, blind, deaf, mute, mentally disabled, you could have been abducted and sold into sex slavery, you could be so poor you were forced to work as a prostitute you could have been bullied severely, you could have had severe depression or scitsophrinia. Assuming that just because someone is white and/or a man they are privileged is a joke and a preconceived notion. You can't claim someone is privileged until you understand what they went trough in life and you can't assume someone is unprivileged until you know what they went through in life.