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2/If you assume a woman is socially-oriented despite evidence that she's system-oriented, you're letting general information supersede individual information. It's important to use information at the level the information was collected, and not change levels (general to specific)

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3/This is one issue I have with discourse around privilege. Privilege is information about the general level - e.g. white people *tend* to have more money, more opportunities, than black people in the US. This is true. But I very often see people eagerly insist upon using-

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4/general information when individual information should be superceding; for example a poor white person addicted to opiates in an old forgotten mining town is as much privileged due to his race as an analytical woman is a social butterfly because of her sex.

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5/The lens of privilege is not a bad lens, it's simply not a very good one for understanding the life of the poor white opiate addict. The lens is a concept designed for large-scale, and using it for individual analysis just warps things and angers everybody.

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The issue I have with the "white privilege" concept is that it is race specific when it doesn't need to be. You can talk about the exact same issues by saying "majority privilege".

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I... think I disagree? I would agree that we can talk about different types of majority privilege, but having a phrase that refers specifically to white privilege seems also useful. Do you have an example of non-white-specific-but-rather-majority-based-privilege?

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Pretry much every example I have heard about what white privilege is is an example of that. Things like being represented in positions of power, or media or art, experience less racism, etc.

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These are consequences of being a minority, are they not? White people in China or any other country where they are a minority don't have these advantages.