> "Privilege" is most often brought up as a way to make people feel guilty and derail the discussion. I admit that I've become allergic to this word and can overreact even to legitimate usage of it, but that's due to the guilt-tripping it's most often used to induce.

I've seen this claim a lot. What I find strange is that I'm a fairly "right-on" kind of guy, and hang out on some fairly "right-on" bits of the internet, yet I don't really see the word mentioned in any context that much. Yet apparently, lots of (mostly) young men with somewhat less progressive outlooks seem to be getting much higher exposure to this phrase than I am, and in a very particular kind of usage.

A few times I've tried to get to the bottom of this strange anomaly, and it seems there's popular online communities where people search the internet to locate examples of "political correctness gone mad" (or to save time they simply manufacture them) which they then submit to enrage their fellow community members with how the world is going downhill. Everyone's got to have a hobby, and many of them seem strange to outsiders, but the people who indulge in this seem to have lost perspective due to this self-selected overexposure.

Maybe there's other explanations, I'm older, maybe all the young kids hang out together online and berate each other for having privilege over snapchat or something and I just miss out on it, but the number of times the above explanation comes up is odd enough to me, without inventing even more odd explanations.