[guycook]

I don't mean to speak for the OP, just to relate my own experience. I grew up extremely disadvantaged - bottom 10% - and that's manifested in a few ways throughout life (ie. it took 7 years to get my bachelor's due to needing to work to support me + family members).

Nevertheless, I was recently told by a progressive regarding a tech conference that I was too privileged to offer a diverse perspective ('cause I'm a white guy, you see).

From the article:

"Sean Reardon of Stanford University has calculated that the race gap in student test scores has diminished, but that the class gap has widened. A half-century ago, the black-white test score gap was 50 percent greater than the gap between the richest 10 percent and the poorest 10 percent. Now it is the other way around, with the class gap almost twice that of the race gap."

But for whatever reason progressives (broad term I know) seem to be happy to talk about anything except class and income equality.

[gohrt]

"privileged" and "diverse perspectives" are terms from recent "social justice" theory -- which is newer than "progressive".

It's of course very slippery to try to attach labels to any informal political groups, and probably better to discuss ideas, not people's labels.