There are all kinds of privilege and economics is certainly a very important one, but you most definitely have a very different experience in life as a white male than I do as a fairly well off white woman. There are dozens of things that I deal with almost every day that you never even have to consider much less grapple with. Apparently, you aren't even aware of them which is a part of the issue I was speaking to in this OP, and I don't mean that antagonistically. It's simply stating that by your own admission, you don't really recognize these disparities as existing, which is its own form of privilege. People of color get another couple of layers of things that they must routinely face that neither of us ever will. I think it's vital that you do what you need to in order to begin to really understand that if you want to call yourself a progressive.

Here's a story I wrote a while back giving concrete examples of different types of privilege that might get you started.

https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/examples-of-privilege-5c15ea5ddb49

Importantly, privilege, like oppression, is intersectional. Intersectionality refers to the ways aspects of identity intersect to create specific experiences, needs, privileges, and oppressions. This means that one person can experience both privilege and oppression (for example, they may experience racial privilege for being white, but class oppression for being working class). Privilege and oppression can also intersect with one another to create unique experiences of a specific aspect of their identity. For example, a trans woman who is very affluent has a very different experience of transphobia and cissexism than a transwoman who is very poor. She would, for instance, have better access to resources, medical care, and a safe place to live compared to a transwoman who is working class. While both women experience oppression for being trans, their experiences of that oppression are very different due to the presence or absence of class privilege.”

Here are just a few examples of different kinds of privilege:

If you don’t have to worry about reasonable advocacy for your interests being seen as selfish and out of line.

If you have no difficulty finding neighborhoods where people approve of your household.

If major religions do not teach their congregants that you are an abomination before god.

If you can generally work comfortably (or walk down a public street) without the fear of sexual harassment.

If people do not make assumptions about your intelligence or level of education based on how you look.

If you nearly always see people who look a lot like you represented as powerful, beautiful, intelligent and interesting.

If you don’t understand how rarely or never seeing people who look like you represented in those ways is demoralizing and undermining to self-esteem.

If you can pay little attention to your appearance without worrying about being criticized at work or in social situations.

If you can have promiscuous sex and are viewed positively for it.

If a decision to hire you won’t be based on whether the employer assumes you will be having children in the near future.

If you have never had someone touch your hair or body without asking.

If you can go on a date with a stranger without the fear of being raped.

There are more in the story I linked, including ones about disability. Just some things to think about. People are oppressed and marginalized by demographic (for no other reason than that they are female, or gay, or Black, etc). Wanting to get that redressed as a group only makes sense because the marginalization is not done on the individual level, it's done as a group by demographic. Yes, poor people suffer more marginalization than others, but as I said before, I'm pretty well off and I've been marginalized and oppressed my entire life because of my gender and nothing else Being economically secure only means my marginalization wasn't quite as bad as a poor woman's. Rich and middle class Blacks get discriminated against all of the time so the point you are trying to make doesn't actually hold any water. The statistics tell the real story. And, again, I don't mean that antagonistically but if you really want to deal with truth and facts, then you need to educate yourself a bit more about what they actually are, I think. I'm not going to link every thing I think is relevant here, because it's your job to educate yourself, but here a few more things to get you started off.

https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/driving-while-black-is-a-real-issue-8e15eb8c3cd1

I won't excerpt from that story. I suggest you read the entire thing.

Here's one more, whichis perhaps the most imporant one because it describes, in part, what a patriarchy actually is - a dominance based hierarchy that revolves around social stratifications of all sorts - not just a gendered power differential. It also make it abundandently clear that the gendered aspect is alive and well, but that's just an element of a social system that was built and designed to be maintained as a pyramid of power.

https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/are-we-still-living-in-a-patriarchy-60a9b4a474ef

“Patriarchy is generally not an explicit ongoing effort by men to dominate women. It is a long-standing system that we are born into and participate in, mostly unconsciously."

Not only are women to be (consciously or subconsciously) dominated, but any individuals or classes of people that are deemed to be weaker or inferior will be because it is a zero-sum system. If you don’t win, you lose, and so it’s imperative to always try to appear to be the dominant one in any interpersonal interaction. Racism is a form of patriarchy. So is homophobia. So is garden variety bullying.