First steps aren't enough, but if they get whacked on the head with the You-Are-Privileged-And-Therefore-Wrong-Forever Stick, then they're going to pull back into their shell and never come out again, and now it's a lost cause.

Alternately, you get people like me, who has been introduced to the Privileged stick often enough (not really beaten with it much, but told I won't understand anything because of PWC issue) that I wander around apologizing at random for things that I don't understand but maybe a quarter of.

I can't even read any of this, and while some of my flist is all like "that's the advantage of privilege, that you don't have to deal with it", that comes across almost like a guilt trip, and I guess I don't see the point if I'm just going to reinforce the urge to sit and apologize for everything that has been done or not done, or that I may not understand.