I think there might be a bit of crosstalk here. For background I largely agree with you. There was a powerful clip during the George Floyd protests where a woman passionately explained that it was a game of Monopoly where, when blacks actually did get money, whites burned Tulsa to the ground.

With that out of the way, let me go back to this:

> If you show up to the interview and you're white, congratulations, you're 50% of the way there.

This is where we have the difference of "base rate" vs "lived experience". My example is gender as opposed to race but it generalizes: I have an expensive and difficult hobby that is largely male-dominated. As such there are various scholarships and mentor groups for women. As I open my pockets and overcome challenges, seeing these posters around telling me that if I were a woman, I would have money and mentorship laid at my feet, it is not difficult for me to see why the rhetoric of privilege doesn't land easily.

Going back to race, at my employer there are various employee groups for LGBTQ, Connected Black Professionals, Asian Heritage, and so on. How privileged does a regular white guy without any particular connections feel? (Assume he then goes home and tries to help his high-achieving white teenage son strategize on college applications)

To reiterate, I am not disagreeing with the underlying "stacked deck", but I also don't blame those for whom it doesn't land, because at the very least: the marketing sucks

See also: the blue-collar worker who barely graduated high school and worked in a factory before we shipped it off to China, without which the community has become poor and run-down and ravaged by drug addiction. How privileged do you think he feels? (Is it any wonder he voted for who he did?)