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In reply to the discussion: Why I don't like the term "white privilege" PART TWO [View all]MellowDem
(5,018 posts)And the reason I harp on that is because it's important in identifying the problem to come up with a solution.
The current inequalities we have we're surely influenced by racism to a great degree.
I think comparison to other countries is still effective. I know they aren't the US, but they're humans, and it does tell us something.
Maintaining the status quo is keeping the legacy of racism alive and well, not to mention other historical privileges, and it is awful, and it foments racial bigotry, but it's not racism itself. It's conservative economic theory at work. It's unempathetic and sociopathic.
Asians are doing as well as whites on many categories, and if you break down Asians and whites into further groups, you see even clearer that wealthy Asians and wealthy whites are doing tremendously compared to their own poorer racial brethren. Appalachian whites, for example, aren't flying up the economic ladder past Asians, and for good reason.
Other races implement conservative economic policies in their countries and it is just as effective at maintaining the terrible legacies unique to each country and culture, be it ethnic, racial, religious, etc. privilege.