[mindslight]

Furthermore, "privilege" makes it sound like the advantageous state should be seen as the exceptional condition, and that social equality would be served by getting rid of the "privilege". Whereas actually, we should aspire to reform our society such that everyone has the economic power to represent themselves.

[nemo44x]

If you read enough Italian Elite Theory and some Nietzsche it pretty much comes down to a strategy to become the master class/elite of a society. Instead of earning status outright, another approach is to agitate for it using masses of people to prop you up. Hence identity politics designed by some hopeful elites to recruit masses of wannabe but never will be elites wrapped in a formal claim of justice or some other such emotional nonsense. The actual issue is “I want power over others”.