If we look around the bar, and see that the vast majority of people crying over the beers are black, would it be a reasonable thing for me to assert that the white folk that are here (you included) must&#x27;ve gotten <i>extra</i> unlucky?<p>I think that&#x27;s a reasonable thing to assert. That&#x27;s what privilege is: the number of times you can fuck up (self-inflicted bad things) or be unlucky (externally inflicted bad things) before you lose all your chips.<p>That&#x27;s the nice things about probability and statistics. They allow us to compare an individual to a group.