An interesting modern analogy regarding privilege is that it's life on easy mode. Easy mode is a reference to the difficulty setting in a video game (plenty of videogames of many genres have this feature).
Easy Mode:
-Six Figure income (at least).
-White American
-Christian
-Straight
-Cis
-Suburbs
Hard Mode: Social Justice
- $50,000 in debt
-Mullatto/Mestizo
-Atheist/New-Ager
-Pansexual
-Trans
-Gentrified Inner-City
Devil May Cry Mode:
-5 cents
-Sub-Saharan-African
-Animism/Eat the poo-poo Islam
This is purely a class based analysis devoid of any caste. It's obvious that most of the hatred towards the yuppie lifestyle isn't because of it's emptiness, but rather the fact that it's milquetoast. Life under modernism is boring and the suburban lifestyle epitomizes it. The reaction lefties have to the privileged man is to favor degeneracy over the standard yuppie lifestyle.
This typically involves rejecting anything related to the privileged man. Christianity, Whiteness (especially the Anglo variety), and having a happy attitude. Thus "Hard Mode" thinkers tend to appropriate any perspective they think counteracts milquetoast modernism. The problem is that they reconstruct everything they appropriate to fit their needs and their needs only. This is why Social Justice types that typically see themselves in the hard-mode setting are heavily Americanized in their world views.
Now if you excuse me, I'll be replaying my life as a Sub-Suharan-African. Wish me luck.
Ha....clever.
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