[Jun8]

Pointing out problems that a certain group is facing does not automatically make people outside that group privileged. I think your comment was meant sarcastically but this error is usually done.

I am also "white" and in 25-49 group (towards the upper end, though), grew up in a different country, had my first home PC during the second year of MS degree with money earned from giving private lessons. None of my friends in the 80s had PCs. I am still struggling to bring my coding skills up to par caused from such a late start. I was not "privileged" in any way or form.

I'm now volunteering at a poor neighborhood high school in Chivago, teaching them Python and helping the FRC Team do the programming. I don't for this because I felt sorry for my privileges, I do it because it's the right thing to do.

Certain aspects of life may be correlated with skin color, we still shouldn't lump the two together.

[gordjw]

I'm also a non-American, and it wasn't sarcasm.

I think the privileged label is overused these days (esp online), but the way I see it is that I've (apparently) got it slightly easier than a black person.

Doesn't mean I didn't work hard to achieve what I have, and my parents were fairly poor, but I didn't have other people looking at me and dismissing me because of my skin colour.

Some people are more "privileged" than me, some less.

It's a scale of difficulty, and people love to label and classify.