Tumblr seems to be redefining privilege as "I'm jealous and want to validate my jealousy by crying PRIVILEGE whenever I'm jealous of somebody."
It's more like 'I'm too lazy to make any kind of effort, even towards things I really want, so instead, whenever I hear about other people getting these things, I insist that they have an unfair advantage.'
And this is why we can never have nice things. Whenever there is actual injustice in the world, when people start to try to fight against it, people who are unaffected by it want to ride on its coattails for the attention. Therefore, pretty much all
actual suffering is inevitably de-legitimized by those who use that suffering as a platform to whine about their own, much more petty, problems. And those who stand to benefit by maintaining the status quo are all too happy to point out the grandstanders as representatives of the movement, using them as evidence that nothing needs to be done.
