&gt; Saying someone has privilege is just pointing out the state of the world, it isn&#x27;t a judgment.<p>It <i>could</i>, in principle, be just a claim about the state of the world; in practice, its quite often an <i>ad hominem</i> to dismiss a position they&#x27;ve taken, and often its that with a side of implicit moral judgement that the position is not only <i>invalid</i> because of the claimed privilege, but also that it is maliciously offered as a defense of that privilege at the expense of the unprivileged.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that privilege doesn&#x27;t exist (it does), or that it doesn&#x27;t at times blind people to others&#x27; experiences (it does), or that it doesn&#x27;t at times lead to people, consciously or not, defending it at the expense of the unprivileged (it does that, too!)<p>But to pretend that claims of privilege are non-judgemental is ignoring how they are actually used in practice.