Freedom from discrimination is a right, not a privilege.

The 'white privilege' narrative essentially insists that the key to ending inequality is to have a higher percentage of non-whites in a shrinking middle class and a higher number of white people in a growing prison population, and that is not promoting equality.

Through the 'white privilege' narrative, the middle class are insisting that that the individual circumstances and systemic discrimination and oppression faced by poor and working class white people should be disregarded on the grounds that people of their skin color are statistically less likely to face those conditions, and therefore they should feel happy that they get to share a skin color with people who are luckier than they are.

There is no validity or merit to the 'white privilege' narrative whatsoever. 

 But it makes sense that the middle class is using the 'white privilege' narrative not only as a tool to divide the poor and working class based on race, but also as a method for shaming working class and poor white people who attempt to address systemic equality based on economic status, because the middle class always needs to keep up the delusion of moral superiority and enlightenment to justify their economic caste based privilege.