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This argument does not address the point. No one said that lucky means perfect; everything is relative.

It can be (and is) true that you can be the luckiest baby in history and have "crippling illness". You can both be privileged and disadvantaged on different axes at the same time.

I think you misunderstand racism and sexism. These refer to power structures that oppress people, not inborn disadvantages.

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There are power structures being built to counteract the older power structures of predominately white male society. These power structures aim to exclude white men in an attempt to make up for historical discrepancy. Unfortunately, disability is often not taken into account, and so we now have power structures that discriminate against white men whether they are disabled or not. Empowering a healthy, able-bodied woman/black-person/whatever at the expense of a disabled person of any background is not okay, but it is done all the time. I've personally experienced this a lot in the past few years. It never happened pre-2016.

If you don't agree that there are power structures discriminating against white men, then we would have to have a much longer discussion for me to get my point across.

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