But what does this actually mean? Explain it like I'm 5.
Do I need to earn more EXP to level up my computer programming ability? Do my enemies automatically gain +10% disruption resistance? In video games the meaning of "nightmare difficulty" is quite concrete. Not so much in this conversation.
A large number of those problems are of the form "I prefer people of my race, but there aren't very many of them. Oh noes." If you have narrow preferences of any sort, racial or otherwise, your life will be harder. Big surprise.
Should I feel doubly awesome because people thought I was a smart hotshot dev even while I suffered from these horrible problems?
The discussion of "privilege" , like so many things, is corruotd and drowned out by extremists, so its salient points get lost.