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

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There are literally millions of combinations that decide success. Way too many to generalize under one term.

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Once again something I’ve said multiple times in this very thread.

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Privilege, education, hard work, good fortune, connections, etc. You need more than one of these to be successful. Not having one doesn’t preclude you from being successful and having all of them doesn’t guarantee success.

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Yeah I think most would find this reasonable, but my point is that your concept of privilege itself can be broken into a pie of countless pieces, each piece representing whatever factor of your being endears you to society. This could be how you dress, your skin coloration, your religion, your tattoos, etc.
“Society” in this context is also not homogenous. These things might change in how they are perceived based on location and what your particular social circle is.

And usually people tend to focus on only one variable, which is a drastic oversimplification. But even when they don’t, these are whole lot of words to state the obvious that some people have a harder time than others in life. I struggle to find where this dialogue is productive or useful.

Seems like if someone has misfortune, it is a more productive exercise to analyze specific factors that led to the misfortune instead of pigeonholing him into a macroscopic box and saying that a lack of privilege for whichever particular box we are placing the individual in is a primary reason why. I think this would be psychologically troublesome and likely to lead to fatalism, and all for a premise that I believe is mightily flawed.

What bullshite is this