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Originally Posted by delphidb96
"More privileged category"??? The flip are you talking about?!?!? *MY* parents are - on my mother's side - dirt-poor immigrants from Potato Famine Ireland and - on my father's side - peasant and serf stock from the Austria region.
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Privilege comes in several varieties; lack of privilege in one area (class, wealth) doesn't cancel out privilege in another area (White, male, Christian, able-bodied, heterosexual, etc.)
Privilege means you are granted certain rights and advantages, which you were told everyone had or should have--but they don't. It's hard to notice, because it's not measured in individual acts but in overall patterns. And people like to claim that, if one person can overcome oppression and get into a position of power despite societal bias, there must not be any bias.
See:
A CONCISE HISTORY OF BLACK-WHITE RELATIONS IN THE U.S.A.