Allow me to answer this in a reduced manner than the reply I ‘benefitted from’ (so I was told) when querying it last year on another site. The answer came in about ten long paragraphs which seemed to make sense if you weren’t careful and didn’t keep asking yourself “do I really understand what is being said?”

My question was something akin to yours but more along the line of ‘how can I tell if I have this privilege you say I have and what can I do about it’.

The answer is that you have this privilege and unless you acknowledge that you do, you prove your privilege by failing to even recognise it. And if you do acknowledge your privilege then that’s proof of your privilege, too.

So, now that we all know you are privileged (even if you are homeless, hungry, cold and diseased) it is important that you make amends for it by not speaking, eating too much (if at all), pushing for work, (taking up oxygen, you get the drift) because to do so is abusing your privilege because if you weren’t privileged, you wouldn’t be able to do these things.

So, since you are privileged and have so far abused your privilege, you must step back and let others speak without interruption (obviously it doesn’t matter if they speak lies and nonsense: that’s just your privileged opinion anyway), get the jobs they want (I gathered it might be alright to work, so long as nobody else wants the job), and never vote or be involved in politics unless as a puppet for feminists.

I made the bit up about not taking up oxygen but the rest is a fairly accurate summation of the ‘benefit’ I received in reply. The best way to look at it is to see having privilege as some kind of useless disease.