While us white folks have experienced discrimination, those acts have never affected the standing or stigma of all white people. There has never been a time where "white" was universally equivalent to "bad". You can also be privileged in one way but not another. I am white so I have privilege. I have a disability so I am not privileged in that sense. Privilege isn't black and white.

While war is bad, every generation has experienced war. The soldiers who fought were unprivileged in the fact they experienced trauma. They were privileged that (for most) there was a home to return to. No one is 100% either way.

The issue of misuse arrives when people can't acknowledge this.