There's a common point of view that any member of a privileged class is implicitly responsible for the state of things as they stand, regardless of whether thei

There's a common point of view that any member of a privileged class is implicitly responsible for the state of things as they stand, regardless of whether their individual actions align with the conditions perpetuated by the privileged class, as a sort of societal original sin. The spread of this view is unfortunate, because for any particular privileged member, it makes the support of social causes a lose-lose proposition. While in some people this manifests as outwardly displayed resentment, most people in this situation just avoid engaging the topic entirely, as the default option in this trolley problem. This is also an outcome that activists decry, but ironically people in this situation are afforded by their privilege to withdraw from the conversation. Seeing threads like this appear and then get flagged shows that enough people anticipate no productive discussion on the matter, which seems to validate the efficacy of the strategy of silence.