&gt; I haven&#x27;t made assumptions, demanding group guilt or deference, based upon a simplistic caricature or stereotype.<p>Ok, the reason privilege is taboo in this society is because it often gets mixed up with prejudice and injustice. Privilege is both real and collective, prejudice tends to be collective but may be overriden individually, and injustice is always individual.<p>If we consider privilege to come from the unthinking assumptions of people in general (aka. their prejudices) you cannot do anything about it. It is there. You can choose to keep your unthinking assumptions in check, but cannot force the others to do so. You just enjoy when those assumptions work in your favor, and workaround&#x2F;overcome them when they get in your way.<p>On the other hand, injustices do happen when individuals choose to manipulate those unthinking assumptions (either in themselves or in others) to gain unfair advantage. So, the &quot;group guilt&quot; you talk about is guilt by association; e.g. a logical fallacy.<p>By example, there are such things as beaten wives. The reason for this is that their husbands are violent jerks. IF male privilege would not make women a convenient target, the same jerks would go out and look for someone else to beat. So, if you are a decent male, you have the right to refuse taking any blame for wife-beating, while still acknoledging that this is a real problem caused (at least parcially) by male privilege.<p>And if people wants to still blame you after exposing your case in such a way, it means they are themselves looking for someone to hate. Don&#x27;t let them bring you to their silly games.