re: When did you first become aware of your privilege?

You are arguing with mthrfkers who just want to argue..

They are ignoring the CONTEXT of what privilege means in 2020, arguing semantics and being all around intellectually dishonest.

If you want real intellectual debate, you would be better off talking to your dog, at least he's sincere....

When the NOPD officer allowed me to make a phone call while in the back of cop car after being arrested for reckless driving and then being able to pay my fine instead of getting bonded out.

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If I compared the single 2 legged competitor to the 1 legged guy? Yea, I would.

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And completely unrealistic when talking about “privilege” and “advantage” across a society.

No one is take one specific 25 year old and comparing his/her advantages to another specific 25 year old.

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The 999 2 legged guys would all be on equal footing with each other, no pun intended, and would all have the advantage over the 1 legged guy.

This isn’t complicated.

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And you would quickly evaluate that the difference in outcomes is attributable to the lack of a leg for the one guy(because it’s an easy example). And it would take more to figure out why the rest of the bottom 50 are in that position.

But society doesn’t do that right now. It looks at the top 100 two-legged runners and says that they were privileged to have two legs.

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When I was in my late teens early 20's I apparently didn't come to a complete at a stop sign. A cop pulled up behind me, threw his lights on.

I didn't try to run from him. Instead, I put on my blinker, pulled over, had my drivers license and registration in hand.

As he approached me, I did 't fight him or argue with him. I didn't try to steal his weapons either. I was respectful and polite.

He gave me a traffic ticket and asked that I make a better effort to come to a complete stop next time.

To this this day, I always make sure to come to a complete stop at stop signs.

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That’s a nice story, but we all know that if you were black, the cop would have still killed you.

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So why didn’t everyone choose to be born into a family like yours?

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Nice try. When you become an adult, you have every option available to you. I assure you many people would have had it easier than I did. I missed qualifying for college grants because my parents made literally $27 too much. It is easier for a poor person to pay for college than someone from a middle class family.

As a child, you are limited by your family. As an adult, you have only yourself to blame.

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Your definition of "privilege" is grossly overbroad, contrary to the established usage of privilege, and conflates "privilege" and "advantage

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I posted the literal definition, but feel free to argue with the dictionary.

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By your definition, any genetic advantages are also "privileges," right ? If a person is born tall and strong and has a eidetic memory, he or she has nothing to do with those traits, did not work to generate them, merely inherited them by happenstance. So by your definition, those genetic traits are "privileges", yes?

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Are you trying to say that genetic advantages aren’t advantages? So now you want to argue against the dictionary and evolution?

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Is a two parent or stable home a "special" advantage that is "available only" to one racial group?

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I don't know why you felt the need to force "racial" into this question...

but with the amount of unstable and single parent homes these days, it could absolutely be viewed as a special advantage to a particular person or group

and that group would be anyone that has those values or commitment instilled in them and are capable of actively living those values

These guys want so badly for it to be a race thing. It’s almost sad.

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I don't speak for TH, but from my perspective, yes

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So you believe that heritable traits like intelligence or athleticism are "special" advantages that are "available only" to certain groups? That's interesting.

In any event, I don't think there is any need to continue the debate. Both you and TH3 have effectively made "privilege" synonymous with "advantage." And there we have no disagreement. Being born into a stable home is indeed an advantage. But the question becomes: what accounts for that advantage. And the only true answer is that the advantage is predominantly a product of the hard work, talents, discipline, and sacrifices of the parents and other ancestors. No one should be forced to repudiate the hard won advantages of their families, nor the fruits of their own labors.