Check your Guilt Trip!

In class, we are learning about social classes. One way we determined social class was through a social class calculator from the New York Times. This calculator measures your privileges, such as education and occupation, and places you into one of five categories: bottom fifth, lower middle, middle, upper middle, and top fifth.
There's also the Privilege Calculator (does it have a name?), which, instead of calculating your social class, calculates your right to talk about social issues. I decided to calculate my privilege last night. I got a total of 45 points, making me 'above average'. Although some categories such as 'bonus' (-15 for my perceived lack of a social life?) and 'height' (-10 for being short?!), I found most of the categories reasonable. This chart is clearly not as professional as the New York Times (calling European countries top, meh and s***), but the real problem is what 'privilege' means in the social justice world. A score of above 100 not only makes you 'above average' but means that you need to check your privilege daily.

But for who? Social justice bloggers, you privileged, mighty whitey pigs! Social justice website Shrub is here to guide you to reaching a PC Nirvana in just seven easy steps! Shrub's Walkthrough for Whites includes instructions on how to navigate 'minority spaces', areas in which you, the privileged, had better shut up in. This is because "we, as privileged people" often try to hijack minority spaces with inferior opinions. Shrubs says that it's best to give the minorities a turn and listen to "their issues, lives, and oppressions" that you are exempt from.
Although I'm 'above average' in privilege, I really want to criticize Shrubs. The idea that the privileged, ignorant you is incapable of understanding the oppressions of the poor, poor minorities is patronizing to both parties. It sounds like you are just so above the lowly minorities that you CAN'T comprehend their pain unless you give them their minority spaces. The idea that minority spaces are "needed because they are the only place where non-privilged people can truly focus on our own issues" is well-intentioned but only further highlights the lack of privileges minorities face. By giving minorities a separate space free of privileged interference, Shrubs is assuming that minorities can't express their pain to a privileged person.
I NEED A CONCLUSION.