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If you want a discussion about privilege where people consider things critically, "posh bird" was maybe not the ideal opening gambit

Agreed, it's a bit heavy-handed, particularly on this forum, although at the time I think I was trying to be deliberately provocative.

How about the university workers striking over their pensions? What was the left wing argument for calling them lazy and trivialising their issues?

I don't believe I called all university workers lazy, just some, which at the time I explained was based on my own observations during a brief career in academia.

In terms of a left wing argument regarding the issues faced by university workers - if you really wanted to you could take up a position that higher education has been commodified, and those who benefit from that process have directly benefited for the exploitation of another group (students) for their own financial gain. I think it's a consideration that many students are basically being ripped by the current system and that there is a relatively large academic 'class' that's doing quite nicely thank you on the back of that.

Worth a thought at least, no?