On Fox and Friends on Sunday, Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter was on to discuss his recent op-ed, "I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine". In the excellent and entertaining segment, Schlichter says the entire privilege argument is nothing but a ploy to shut down debate and silence opposition. He calls it un-American and immoral, and host Tucker Carlson says it is plainly racist.

Schlichter lays the blame at the feet of pseudo-intellectuals who are completely out of touch with the real world.

“All of us have worked, all of us have achieved something, that’s how we measure character, that’s how we measure what the value of a person is. Not some arbitrary category imposed by a bunch of ponytailed grad students who’ve taken too many gender studies seminars.”

Schlichter also points out that what some would call privilege is really just hard work, saying "I didn’t become a partner in a law firm because my great-great-great-grandfather came over from Bavaria."