I remember seeing a talk of the concept of privilege show up in the discussion thread on contrarian views.
Some discussion got started from "Feminism is a good thing. Privilege is real."
This is an article that presents some of those ideas in a way that might be approachable for LW.
http://curt-rice.com/quotas-microaggression-and-meritocracy/
One of the ideas I take out of this is that these issues can be examined as the result of unconscious cognitive bias. IE sexism isn't the result of any conscious thought, but can be the result as a failure mode where we don't rationality correctly in these social situations.
Of course a broad view of these issues exist, and many people have different ways of looking at these issues, but I think it would be good to focus on the case presented in this article rather than your other associations.
The problem with this definition is that it's very possible for someone's explicit beliefs to be false and "implicit beliefs" to be true. Thus it is problematic to call this a "bias" without establishing that the underlying beliefs are false.
"Microaggression" strikes me as an epicycles attempting to rescue the theory that race and gender don't correlate with anything. Original theory: all these differences are due to differences in the way society treats these people, so we bad treating them differently and even implement laws requiring preferential treatment. However, the achievement gaps remain, they can't be due to innate differences because that would be racist and sexist, hence they must be because t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶c̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ these evil white men are engaging in microaggressions.
A different approach: Are my aliefs interfering with my agentiness? For instance, if I'm trying to get a project done with a team of programmers, and my aliefs keep identifying the women on my team as "mothers" instead of as "coders" (or more generally "workers"), th... (read more)