Does "White Privilege" Exist When Asians Make (on average) More Than Whites?

[Half-Life]

A common myth we hear from the left is "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!" It's gotten so bad that some political "experts" on the left have been comparing leftism to a non theistic religion and "white privilege" as analogous to original sin.

So, do you believe the myth of white privilege? If so, why did whites set it up so that Asians make more than them?
Are whites "just smart enough" to keep blacks down but "just dumb enough" to not keep Asians down?

If anything, "Asian privilege" seems much more apt.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Asians with the same education don't earn more, but less initially. After being in the US, for a couple of generations, then Asians of the same educational level are equal. This can be explained by recruitment of educated foreigners from Asia, followed by passing down cultural academic advantages by educated parents.

Part of the explanation for Asians' higher wages is their greater-than-average educational attainment: in the 1990s, 23.3 percent of the total U.S. male population had at least a college degree, while 48.7 percent of Asian Indian men, 41.6 percent of Filipino men, and 35 percent of Chinese men had at least a college degree.[5] The higher educational attainment of Asians masks the fact that a wage gap exists between Asians and whites of the same occupations. Whites earn more than Asians in almost all occupational categories when other factors are controlled.[5] Asians still make 8% less than whites in comparable jobs except for Asians who have been in the United States for one and a half generations, whom have reached full parity in income.[26]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_States

 

[Trausti]

Isn’t White Privilege just a new-age religious scam whereby Woke White liberals make money telling other White people how terrible they are?

 

[Patooka]

Asians with the same education don't earn more, but less initially. After being in the US, for a couple of generations, then Asians of the same educational level are equal. This can be explained by recruitment of educated foreigners from Asia, followed by passing down cultural academic advantages by educated parents.

Part of the explanation for Asians' higher wages is their greater-than-average educational attainment: in the 1990s, 23.3 percent of the total U.S. male population had at least a college degree, while 48.7 percent of Asian Indian men, 41.6 percent of Filipino men, and 35 percent of Chinese men had at least a college degree.[5] The higher educational attainment of Asians masks the fact that a wage gap exists between Asians and whites of the same occupations. Whites earn more than Asians in almost all occupational categories when other factors are controlled.[5] Asians still make 8% less than whites in comparable jobs except for Asians who have been in the United States for one and a half generations, whom have reached full parity in income.[26]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_States

I love how it only took about ten minutes for yet another one of half-life's bullshit assertions to be debunked. That's faster than a pizza.

 

[Half-Life]

Isn’t White Privilege just a new-age religious scam whereby Woke White liberals make money telling other White people how terrible they are?

I've seen jokes about it from conservatives. "My white privilege alarm goes off 6 days a week at 4:30 A.M.!"

 

[Rhea]

leftism to a non theistic religion and "white privilege" as analogous to original sin.

That’s not what “original sin” is, so no, no one serious is making that analogy.
In the religion story of original sin, generations of people are punished for something one person did once far in the past.
White privilege is something good that lots of people get due to the ongoing effects of the exploitative and oppressive actions of millions of people in the past.

So that analogy is terrible and you should make sure you never again repeat such drivel.

 

[Rhea]

A common myth we hear from the left is "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"

Can you explain in detail what is mythical about this?
Do you have lots of stories about all the special advantages given to non-white people at the founding of this country?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Isn’t White Privilege just a new-age religious scam whereby Woke White liberals make money telling other White people how terrible they are?

Yet you're the one talking about how terrible white people with consciences are.

 

[Trausti]

leftism to a non theistic religion and "white privilege" as analogous to original sin.

That’s not what “original sin” is, so no, no one serious is making that analogy.
In the religion story of original sin, generations of people are punished for something one person did once far in the past.
White privilege is something good that lots of people get due to the ongoing effects of the exploitative and oppressive actions of millions of people in the past.

So that analogy is terrible and you should make sure you never again repeat such drivel.

White Privilege is about collective guilt. The analogy is apt. And similar to the Church’s use of original sin, the high priests of White Privilege profit by reciting the catechism. If people stopped believing, the clergy would have to get real jobs.

 

[repoman]

Maybe we should worry about the privilege we all enjoy NOW compared to our descendants in a Mad Max wasteland in a time sooner than most want to admit.

 

[Keith&Co.]

A common myth we hear from the left is

If this is 'common,' you should be able to find a post making this claim?
An op-ed?
A news story?

Or us this YET ANOTHER claim you pull out of your ass, a strawmn to troll the left?
Ever support any other common left myths?
Or common atheist myths?

 

[Elixir]

...the high priests of White Privilege profit by reciting the catechism.

Where are my checks?

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

A common myth we hear from the left is "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"

What's mythical about that? It was. So were most western nations. You're not aware of slavery? You're not aware of the Chinese head tax and other special sanctions against asian people generally? The real question is if and to what extent these special advantages still exist today, and what to do about them.

 

[Half-Life]

A common myth we hear from the left is "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"

Can you explain in detail what is mythical about this?
Do you have lots of stories about all the special advantages given to non-white people at the founding of this country?

Let's start from the top.

How do people in power in the U.S. get to be put into power?

 

[Patooka]

A common myth we hear from the left is "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"

Can you explain in detail what is mythical about this?
Do you have lots of stories about all the special advantages given to non-white people at the founding of this country?

Let's start from the top.

How do people in power in the U.S. get to be put into power?

Ooh! Ooh! I know the answer to this!
Rhea's opinion on how people get put into power has fuck all to do with your assertion that not only the left believe "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!", you also assert it is a myth. Explain, without dodging the issue:
a) Why all leftist believe, "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"
b) Why this is a myth

Keep in mind, you said both things with Rhea, myself or anyone else prompting you, so it should be easy for you to explain. Unless of course the argument is complete bullshit. Take your time, I'll wait.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

As democratic as the US claims to be, they mainly get born into that power, then educated in the expectation of wielding that power as adults and employed under the Mates Act as on-the-job training for the exercise of that power.

All the while excluding the majority of "outsiders" who might have applicable abilities by referring to them as "uppity" and defining them automatically as unacceptable by virtue of perceived differences which have nothing to do with competence. But a fair bit to do with opportunity.

That's how.

 

[Half-Life]

A common myth we hear from the left is

If this is 'common,' you should be able to find a post making this claim?
An op-ed?
A news story?

Or us this YET ANOTHER claim you pull out of your ass, a strawmn to troll the left?
Ever support any other common left myths?
Or common atheist myths?

https://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/what-is-white-privilege

You're right, Keith. I made it up. I made it up and somehow they are having conferences about it already!

 

[RVonse]

...the high priests of White Privilege profit by reciting the catechism.

Where are my checks?

Im willing to bet most of the bullshitters on CNN make more reciting the catechism than either of us make doing real jobs.

 

[Half-Life]

Let's start from the top.

How do people in power in the U.S. get to be put into power?

Ooh! Ooh! I know the answer to this!
Rhea's opinion on how people get put into power has fuck all to do with your assertion that not only the left believe "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!", you also assert it is a myth. Explain, without dodging the issue:
a) Why all leftist believe, "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"
b) Why this is a myth

Keep in mind, you said both things with Rhea, myself or anyone else prompting you, so it should be easy for you to explain. Unless of course the argument is complete bullshit. Take your time, I'll wait.

I have no idea why leftists believe that. Someone said it and they nodded in agreement and it spread to other leftists who nod in agreement?

It's a myth because white people have no advantages. White people are called racist at every opportunity. Black comedians can make fun of white people all they want and no one cares but the moment a white comedian makes fun of black people, they get ripped apart. Doesn't sound very "white privilege" to me.

White people can be refused a job because they need diversity in the workplace instead.
White people would go to jail for falsely reporting a hate crime, but Jussie Smollet gets off with no jail time just because he's black and gay, a double privileged minority.

Things like this make us conservatives shake our heads at the crazy leftists.

 

[Patooka]

Let's start from the top.

How do people in power in the U.S. get to be put into power?

Ooh! Ooh! I know the answer to this!
Rhea's opinion on how people get put into power has fuck all to do with your assertion that not only the left believe "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!", you also assert it is a myth. Explain, without dodging the issue:
a) Why all leftist believe, "This country was founded on giving the white race special advantages!"
b) Why this is a myth

Keep in mind, you said both things with Rhea, myself or anyone else prompting you, so it should be easy for you to explain. Unless of course the argument is complete bullshit. Take your time, I'll wait.

I have no idea why leftists believe that. Someone said it and they nodded in agreement and it spread to other leftists who nod in agreement?

It's a myth because white people have no advantages. White people are called racist at every opportunity. Black comedians can make fun of white people all they want and no one cares but the moment a white comedian makes fun of black people, they get ripped apart. Doesn't sound very "white privilege" to me.

White people can be refused a job because they need diversity in the workplace instead.
White people would go to jail for falsely reporting a hate crime, but Jussie Smollet gets off with no jail time just because he's black and gay, a double privileged minority.

Things like this make us conservatives shake our heads at the crazy leftists.

So you can't back up your assertions with any studies or any evidence. Thanks. All I need to know.