As someone who is not a straight-white-male, and someone who grew up feeling generations of oppression against me perpetrated by straight white males, the level of privilege attributed to that group seems like a gross mischaracterization to me.

The abusers are merely a tiny percentage of straight-white-males (lets' call the SWMs for short). Most SWMs are average joes, many are living in poverty, and are folks who I wouldn't want to trade places with.

Yes, I may have had some additional challenges to deal with in life due to not being a SWM, but there are plenty of SWMs who've had to deal with their own challenges which I didn't have to face.

The real problem IMHO is a set of narcissistic, self-serving, almost psychopathic personalities which our current systems of governance tends to let rise to the top.

For example, did you know that CEOs are 5x more likely to meet the clinical definition of "psychopath" than the general public? And if you break it down into the specific negative attributes that they display, you'll prob find an even higher prevalence among the top brass.