Privilege Is Annoying

[joreth]

This is a post made by someone else, but it says exactly what I want to say on the subject, so I'm just going to quote it here:

The most common argument I see against the [use of the] word "privilege" is that it is "annoying."

You are, of course, welcome to find anything annoying if you want. So here's what I personally find annoying:

• Seeing people with no background in the social sciences summarily dismiss a sociological concept backed by decades of theory and research because they don't like the sound of it;


• Having my own ideas and writing dismissed because they share a word in common with a bad Tumblr you read once;


• Being asked to apologize for people I have never met or interacted with who were mean to you when you argued against the word "privilege";


• The implication that ideas have to make you feel good in order to be accurate and worth your consideration, and ideas that make you feel uncomfortable or bad can be safely dismissed.