Yes that's exactly the point, kind of. It's like... you can hold a group of people to a standard if they are actually acting as a group (like the white supremacist rally's in Charlottesville for example). But that's the extent of it. I think there's something truly sinister beneath the idea of holding minorities under a constant burden of disenfranchisement. I don't deny there are cultural factors here, for sure. But is white privilege the biggest factor in the power dynamics and earning potential of minorities? No. It's like 10% tops (those in power largely do want to try and stay in power). I mean look at the actual stats:
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Asian's are slaughtering us all by comparison — more specifically Indian American's earn $107,390 in generalized income. If being white were the sole factor in social mobility these other minority groups wouldn't be succeeding in such great quantities. By the standards of the identity police we're not even at the top. The takeaway from this is that a lack of minority representation in a lot of creative markets is just not a great indicator of discrimination. It could be a great indicator of poor community integration, though. Most of the players in the NBA are black, because they have the skill to succeed in the NBA. It's the direct result of the meritocracy of basketball. Nobody is discriminating against white or asian's here. We mostly just suck at that sport at that level of expectation. Black communities have it hard in many ways, no doubt, but white privilege to me is a really poor excuse for a lot of these outcomes when you investigate into it a little bit.
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