The concept of "privilege" was only ever useful as an epistemic tool to get people to conceptualize alternatives to their own lack of limitations. When it became some sort of moral sorting algorithm it went entirely off the rails.
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And the notion that being privileged means fewer limitations is flawed. More privileged people generally have more obligations incumbent upon them, and their actions are subject to more scrutiny than those of nobodies.
True. But a privileged person can generally become a different kind of privileged person: IE, trade one set of obligations and limitations for another, and this itself can be conceptualized as a form of freedom.
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Perhaps. But there is no ultimately satisfying set of obligations and limitations; all of them can too easily feel like performative mating dances.
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