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>That's the privilege...

Only experienced by white people of course which also by your implication are incapable of experiencing

>Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success

It's great you lead a privileged enough life you've never had to interact with poor struggling white people before.

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Thanks for proving my point. I assume at this point that people who still don't understand the concept of privilege are being deliberately obtuse, so I'm not going to bother with you. The information is out there. You can choose to make an effort to understand or not.

I think the point is that whole collectively one group may be more privileged, people are individuals and not a collective.

For example a black child born into extreme or moderate wealth is undoubtedly more privileged than a white child that is orphaned at a young age.

There is always statistical outliers in any large data set, but they don't affect the median value significantly.

This is in no way a rebuttal to what they said. The point is that privilege very well may exist and be a valid concept surrounding an aggregate, but be a invalid tool for comparing individuals.

Who's using it to compare individuals? The entire discussion revolves around populations and institutions.

Conditionality is applied in the concept: Privilege is essentially the difference in outcomes ascribed to two otherwise identical people due to a particular disadvantage that members of one group suffer but members of the other group don't.

This is also known as an ecological fallacy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy

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