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

[MellowDem]

227. That's certainly another way...

I hear the use of social justice terms more and more by conservatives as they keep losing the argument. Their response is to fight fire with fire. Hence the cries of racism, bigotry, and sexism by many conservatives now. The cries of intolerance, etc. But they haven't picked up on the privilege language, yet. The thing is, many conservatives are underprivileged in various ways, but they also almost always buy into the idea that we live in a perfect meritocracy. This results in some serious cognitive dissonance and they have to come up with all sorts of crazy convolutions to have it all make sense, like the "takers" vs the "makers".

The facts and data have clearly shown we aren't living in a meritocracy. It's good we have those on our side, as they point out privilege that does exist. But it's still tough to translate that to understanding among conservatives when those facts undermine a huge part of their ideology. It is usually a gradual process.