My privilege as a straight, white, cisgender, middle class thin male

[Dystopia]

The only reason privilege are ever mentioned is to guilt trip people and make them feel bad and make the accuser seem like they know what they are talking about. You can't change your privlildges and bringing them up adds nothing to the conversation but to discredit you and imply that your opinion isn't as valid. You're a man, so you can't talk about abortion. You're white, so you can't talk about racism. You're straight, so you can't talk about homosexuality. You're cis so you can't talk about gender disphoria. You're rich so you can't talk about poverty.

Of course you can talk about all of those things, you can't however claim that you're being oppressed when your group possesses the majority of social power. Everyone's racist, I get that, blacks, latinos, asians, every ethnicity is racist to an extent, but the problem is that the only racism that results in marginalization and lower life quality is white racism towards other groups. Are you actually saying people can't change privilege? The first step to it is for people who actually have it to admit they are privileged - And that's something I can and will continue to do - I know the advantages I have on being a white straight cis male, and I look at other people and imagine how I would feel if I was them - The truth is I consider that I'm playing life on easy mode. This doesn't excuse crimes or violence against whites or males or straight people, of course, but it doesn't justify labelling an entire group as something they are not.

And it's bloody damaging too. Anyone remember that story about that guy that got mugged. He said he deserved it because of his white male privilege. And what's more than that, it creates a culture of victim hood. Just look at Ferguson. Because of the 'apparent' discrimination against Micheal Brown, he was shot and killed. And what does the black community of Ferguson do? They riot and loot their own damn city. They did it because of white priviledge and the disadvantages they think this causes for them. Sure, blacks are definately discriminated against but that just means they have to be extra careful to not break the law and give racist cops and excuse to go after them. And yet they continue to perpetuate black stereotypes and actually provide evidence for and encourage the discrimination that they are fighting against in the first place, by committing crimes such as the looting of Ferguson. And all this because they feel like the victims and so are entilted to act they way they do.

So you're actually saying people should conform to stereotypes society makes about them? I'll give you one example, most people think black people do more drugs but there's several studies that show whites do as many or sometimes more drugs than blacks. If a member of my community was mistreated or murdered, maybe I'd react violently too, I'm not a fan of peaceful revolutions and I think aggressive stands are more effective to help changing things. You are saying people should be extra careful to not break the law, when in fact the statistics show more black people are shot (unarmed) compared to armed whites who aren't shot.