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That_Happened posted...

27_Sandman_40 posted...

every race has privileges

Yes. But there's no harm (or there shouldn't be any harm) in acknowledging that we clearly have the most and best privileges.

Except we actually don't. When you look at any reasonable metric, Asian-Americans outperform white Americans. They have higher gradation rates, they have higher average income, they have better outcomes within the legal system (Asians make up 6% of the general population but only 1.5% of the prison population -- meanwhile whites are far closer to a representative number), etc. Oh, and Asian-Americans even OUTLIVE white Americans on average.

http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/life-expectancy-by-re/

If anything, you should be asking why are Asians, as a minority group, so much superior to whites if "minority disadvantage" and "white privilege" supposedly keep other groups down? Part of the answer could involve the fact that Asians are less likely to believe in the concept and blame whites, instead taking it upon themselves to succeed -- even though minority policies in the US disproportionately hurt Asians *because* they're so successful, such as when it comes to college admissions.
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