As a gay man, I think this privilege debate is kind of ridiculous.

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108. No one is completely off the hook. But again, I encourage you to switch around the privileges in

your sentence and see how it sounds. If a middle-class black American says they don't feel particularly privileged because of the racism they've experienced, is the correct response "I'm just tired of middle-class people thinking that being black lets them completely off the hook RE: classicism"?

In the absolute sense, just about everyone is privileged in some respect. But as I said before:

"I think we would all see the problem if a white American responded to a black American bringing up racial discrimination by lecturing them that they have to admit their privilege as an American."

I agree that people need to be aware of institutional discrimination (I think most here do), and be aware how such discrimination gives them less competition in many aspects of life (I think very, very few people anywhere grasp the full extent of this). But I don't think we get there by having people with privilege x lecture people without privilege x that they have to admit they're privileged, and that the only reason why they would ever bring up privilege x would be to weasel out of said acknowledgement.