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Topicwhite privilege does not mean all white people are better off than everyone else
Balrog0
08/29/17 3:40:48 PM
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The Admiral posted...

The data will show that black people at equal income and education levels will be more likely rejected for housing, but the data also show that those same black people have significantly lower credit scores than whites and Asians, all else being equal. There is almost no case where the disparity is simply linked to race and not at least fully/partially explained by other factors.


it's not just about being accepted or rejected; the study I'm thinking of didn't show that there was a disparity between acceptance to housing vouchers, just a huge disparity in the quality of the location due to landlord steering potential clients to different areas.

The Admiral posted...

And this complication gets back to the original Ben Shapiro comments. If there are other factors causing the disparity, simply badgering people about being racist or having white privilege is useless in correcting the problem.


and this kind of gets me back to the "you can't just say communism is bad," part of my rejoinder.

You're now asking for an incredibly high bar with respect to how we think about public policies -- which I'm okay with. But do you have this standard for every public policy? When people ask for a minimum wage increase, do you carefully study the literature to see what the impact would be? When you see something that might show it's bad, do you carefully consider the limitations of the study?

If not, that's a bit hypocritical. If so, that sounds exhausting.
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