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Well, it's an unearned advantage, isn't it? What else would you call such an advantage other than a privilege?
There's a man standing on a cliff, and a man hanging off another cliff by his hands, would you consider the man on the cliff to have an advantage, or the man hanging to have a disadvantage?
I can see it, you tell someone whos also living paycheck to paycheck that just because they're not queer they are "privileged", they're gonna be like, "no, im not".
We need better terminology, sticking with this one is just self serving and kind of narcissistic, don't create culture war, this still boils down to class war
I understand what you're saying, but I highly doubt that swapping out that word would solve the problem. What if we instead said that white people are lucky because they were born white. Instead of white privilege we can call it white luck. Does anyone honestly believe that would solve the problem? And if it wouldn't solve the problem, then the vocabulary is not the issue.
This is what I believe. I believe that people who have a privileged background are often resistant to recognizing it, because they want to believe that they got to where they are entirely because of their own hard work, but subconsciously they know that's not true. So then there's some cognitive dissonance, and rather than deal with it, why not just complain about the terminology that's used in modern society? It's much easier to complain about how someone else speaks then it is to confront your own insecurities or racist values.
You're literally taking the opposite lesson you should. People aren't being offended because you're taking away their achievements, which you are, you're also telling the majority of white people that they're worse than (insert race), because with their privilege they should be more successful than (insert race).
That's what's offensive, besides ignoring racism when it doesn't fit your narrow definition.