Privilege = shit you don't have to put up with

[MellowDem]

13. IMHO, most people don't understand or acknowledge their own privilege...

Or even recognize the wide varieties of privilege out there. White privilege gets a huge amount of discussion, and so some people think it's just a race thing.

The best way to help someone acknowledge or understand privilege is to point out some way they are underprivileged. People generally understand that much more readily than their privileges.

I think people who are very privileged sometimes are scared of acknowledging it because it can be harder to distinguish in their own mind what they earned and what they didn't, and for some this is important.

I also think some underprivileged people who understand at least some privileges simply refuse to acknowledge others due to their status in society and perception as a victim. This is most clear among certain poor conservative demographics, but happens among the left as well. This results in the underprivileged using the different types of privilege they do have against other underprivileged people without even realizing it.

The very idea of privilege turns most people off, it's a bummer to think about, that is, unless they're underprivileged. Then it's impossible not to.