"Privilege" is an awkward word since it lumps together things that everyone should have like education, healthcare, and not having to live in fear of the police, all together with things no one should have like all media catering to your assumed tastes and the law assuming you're in the right when in conflict with a disprivileged group.
Unfortunately this is just how words are. You could get hung up on what words "should" mean or dividing them up into precise definitions that exactly you and maybe one of your friends agree on, but this shuts you off from the ability to discuss concepts with other people. If you think there's a concept that needs to be explained, you're better off just slogging through explaining it.
Yeah the comic is a bit libby, I'll admit, but I thought it illustrated the point it was trying to make pretty well. That the environment you are born into has a huge effect on your life and it's shitty to assume that people that aren't 'successful' didn't work as hard as those who are.
"Privilege" is an awkward word since it lumps together things that everyone should have like education, healthcare, and not having to live in fear of the police, all together with things no one should have like all media catering to your assumed tastes and the law assuming you're in the right when in conflict with a disprivileged group.
Unfortunately this is just how words are. You could get hung up on what words "should" mean or dividing them up into precise definitions that exactly you and maybe one of your friends agree on, but this shuts you off from the ability to discuss concepts with other people. If you think there's a concept that needs to be explained, you're better off just slogging through explaining it.
Yeah the comic is a bit libby, I'll admit, but I thought it illustrated the point it was trying to make pretty well. That the environment you are born into has a huge effect on your life and it's shitty to assume that people that aren't 'successful' didn't work as hard as those who are.