When a person challenges you on the grounds of your social, economic, or other privilege(s) to be a better individual, it is often better to, instead of being defensive first and foremost of what we have that others do not, see if we can meet that challenge by using what others do not have to their benefit.
And, given that we are, innately, social animals, we will find that, at least every now and then, our giving away of things and powers we are privileged with, out of kindness, compassion, and a desire to support others, will come back through others to define us as better people.
We are never defined by how much influence or power we have; only our actions surrounding how we use what we have will define our humanness, and inform how others view our individual identities as individual people.
It is through building these identities around the goal of bettering others as a means of bettering ourselves, and in the same turn, bettering the rest of the world, that a social species like us will truly survive the hardest of times, the worst of tragedies, the most grueling and cruel experiences...
...and in a time where people, places, and cultures are under attack under the false, fundamentalist pretense that nationalism is a good idea - that "our people, our culture, our views, our beliefs, our nation, are all 'SUPERIOR!' and 'GREATER!' than 'yours'" - in a time where this mindset defines the behavior of those who buy into it, and shapes their actions into physical, emotional, and in so many other ways completely and viscerally real -violence- we, as the people that we are, have every reason to do whatever we can to keep using whatever privileges and resources and opportunities we may have to keep helping others survive, and one day truly thrive.
So, folks - use your privileges, and use them - kindly, compassionately, wisely. Not doing so may one day prove fatal to you, to another you know, or to another you don't if things keep getting worse before they get better. And chances are that, from today on, as far as I am able to see, they will keep getting worse before they reverse.
I have not idea as to how long or short various struggles we are seeing will last. Regardless, let's do our best everywhere and every moment we can, especially those of us who do have privileges that others do not, whether they're socially given and enforced or not.
But please, keep serving each other from as humble of a place as you can;
Keep supporting others when they are not able to stand, move, act, or otherwise do what they need to do, in-and-of their own selves, physically or otherwise, on their own;
Keep protecting each other when life demands it in those hard situations that will crop up for many of us...and for some of us, over and over compared to others;
And by everything sacred, keep yourself in mind through all of it in a way that unites your happiness, your fulfillment, and your living with the living, the surviving, and the thriving of others.
Take joy in other people's joy unless there is something ethically wrong in doing so; one person's justified happiness should be empathically shared by, and with, everyone.
And, should this effort outlast all of the hardest hardships that could possibly be ahead, even if we are no longer here, or have moved on in a different way, those who inherit the Earth and the world it contains from us will truly be privileged in the best of ways with the best of futures we will have been able to provide.
I know of no greater thing that humankind can do than realize that.
