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I hate when people refer to my "white privilege", "straight privilege", "male privilege", or "cis privilege". If I support equal rights, is what I am not my right? CMV

What some people hate to recognize is that there are a unique set of challenges associated with being a straight, white male. I feel like not acknowledging this makes straight, white male a "baseline" from which everything else deviates, or even worse, that it should be more desirable than everything else. Which is counterproductive. Maybe I do have preferable circumstances in certain areas, and people like me have historically had more rights, but I shouldn't be obligated to love everything about it. It's not like being heterosexual is *easy*, or being pale is *easy*, or being male is *easy*.

I love helping people but just like anyone else, I am naturally self-interested. I am pro-LGBT rights, I'm a feminist, I'm pro-racial equality, and not being quite capable of understanding what other peoples' problems are like doesn't change that. That doesn't mean I don't want to try to understand. It also doesn't mean I don't have problems of my own that I would like others to try to understand every once in a while. 

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when people say I'm "privileged". Change my view.
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Privilege isn't a derogatory word.  Having privileges is actually a good thing.  Terms like "white privilege" and "male privilege" are used in a rather derogatory way in order to refer to whatever inherent privileges one receives for possessing the trait before the word "privilege".  In the way it's used here, it refers to benefits gained for something you shouldn't have benefits for.  It in no way refers to who you are as a person, what you do, or what you support.  The phrase "white privilege" simply refers to any benefits you get for being white that non-white people do not get (whether its true or not isn't really the purpose of this debate).

Any of these privileges simply refers to benefits that you have, but don't actually refer to YOU, they simply refer to your entire group.  For example, there are no single-person privileges.  Nobody is throwing a fit about the "president privilege" Barack Obama has.  When people call you privileged, they are simply referring to the trait you possess. 

So while you may be a great person, support many things, and actually be on their side, it's not about you, it's about an entire race/sexuality/gender.  None of these privileges refers directly to you, just to the inequalities (real or not) that exist between groups.

While you're right, being heterosexual/white/male is not easy, some people may believe that being other deviations is harder, and therefore you possess inherent privilege over them.  Whether this is true or not doesn't really matter, all that matters is that since America is pretty much founded on the idea of "all men are created equal" (except slaves, women, and men who didn't own property for a time) any instance of inequality means that who benefits possesses a benefit others don't, or a privilege.

What's interesting is that it's not *your fault* for being "privileged" it's society and cultures fault, and by being supportive of equal rights you are already part of the solution.