system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
It's divisive because many people internalize it and take it as an affront to their individual identity when it's meant to define groups as a whole. As in, a white person saying "I grew up poor but worked hard to get where I am so don't call me privileged". That statement is true to a point. But being white comes with a degree of privilege that many don't want to admit.

As has been stated above, there are a large set of complex factors that affect our lives with race being at, or near, the top of the list. You can find anecdotal evidence to try to disprove race as a major factor but when you pull back and view it on a larger scale the evidence is irrefutable.
gpt
&gt;  when it's meant to define groups as a whole. 

But see, that's the issue, and what I meant when I said "this wouldn't necessarily be a problem when a factor is taken on a global scale, but when it comes to individual".

More often than not, activists don't just use it exclusively in the systemic sense, but tend to infer personal situations out of statistics.

While I agree that, on principle, there's a difference between "you're part of a group that is, on average, all else equals, privileged" and "you personally are privileged", that nuance often ends up being lost at one point or another.