The problem is that lots of people don&#x27;t get that nuance, and then carry the thought along thinking it really does literally mean people who are white and male. Memes morph as they&#x27;re passed along, and a complex sociological understanding of abstract &quot;whiteness&quot; has no chance of surviving into the popular understanding.<p>So for each person like you who means &quot;white male in the abstract sense&quot;, there are ten people in the movement who literally hate white males for running the world.<p>When we want to talk about privilege we should say just that: &quot;privileged people&quot;. Don&#x27;t shit on arbitrary subsections of the population.