To be honest, one thing you can do is retrain yourself to be un-allergic to words like &quot;privilege&quot;, and see their use as the consequence of a lot of people&#x27;s suffering systemic unfairness and injustice.<p>When I see that word, &quot;privilege,&quot; especially tied to attacks on white&#x2F;male&#x2F;hetero&#x2F;whatever, my response isn&#x27;t &quot;oh jeez, not that again&quot;.....it&#x27;s &quot;yeah, that <i>is</i> a problem, and I really wish the other white male hetero folks in the room could see it and not just roll their eyes&quot;.<p>It sounds like you want to be an ally, and that&#x27;s great.  I think the hardest part is probably recognizing that when people talk about privilege, it&#x27;s really not personal, it really isn&#x27;t about you, even though you&#x27;re a beneficiary of it every day.  Knowing about systemic injustice and doing nothing&#x2F;remaining silent, though, that&#x27;s pretty callous, and knowing about systemic injustice and perpetuating it, well, then it would be about you.