[concordDance]

> calling a group priviledged and a geoup being priviledged.

Group based reasoning is ambiguous in English.

When you say a group is privileged are you talking about the mean? The median? The peak? Every member?

Because you could easily have a situation where every person in power is a member of X group while the median member of X group has less power than the population as a whole.

There's also proportion of the total population to consider. If there were a group that only has 1% of the positions of power but every single member is in a position of power then is this group privileged or not? They can't control policy...

And there's also to what extent people in power actually push for the interests of the groups they are supposedly members of as opposed to the interests of the subgroup they're part of.

[hef19898]

Ah, yet another discussion nased on semantics! As I don't want to use neither a dictionary nor linguistics, you win.

[concordDance]

I'm not trying to "win", I'm trying to introduce readers to a useful tool to add to their toolkit for reasoning. A reminder that there's a class of potentially important ambiguities around groups in our language.

If it matters, this tool is also pretty useful for dismantling racism.