RE: Correcting grammar is racist.
April 29, 2016 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2016 at 11:54 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(April 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(April 28, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Access to schools with adequate funding.
You see, here in America schools are funded by property taxes which are based on the assessed value of the housing.
Obviously, in ghettos and run-down neighborhoods, that means that the school disctricts there have smaller budgets (due to lower property values), and usually (because they are largely apartments rather than single-dwelling homes) a higher population of students to serve.
More students/less dollars = lower educational opportunities.
And because minorities are more likely to be poor, they are more often found in ghettos.
It's really not that hard to understand.
some none white groups have a higher median household income than whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_et...old_income
Indian Americans, Iranian Americans, Taiwanese Americans, Maltese Americans. Asians as a whole racial group have a higher income than whites.
From that link:
Quote:Asian American : $74,105[1]
Pacific Islands American : $58,859[1]
White American : $57,355[2] (includes White Hispanics)
Total Population : $51,914[1]
Native American : $38,806[1]
African American : $37,227[1]
I've emphasized the part where your link supports my point. When you consider the numbers of Asian-American households versus the number of black households in America, you will see why this counterpoint doesn't refute the idea of white privilege. The fact that Asian-Americans at about 5.5% of our population don't suffer the issues of racial discrimination in the same manner that blacks and Hispanics (30% of the population) suffer from racism.
(April 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm)paulpablo Wrote: So if a privilege is an advantage granted to a specific group then I don't know what group this would be classed as but I wouldn't class it as white. There seems to be quite a few groups who are doing pretty well in America other than whites who do have darker skin.
I guess you'd have to consider the socio-cultural history of America to understand why Asians don't suffer the same discrimination as do blacks and Hispanics. If you think whites don't have a leg up in American life, you're delusional. Of course, I only live here, and lack the expertise you have garnered from your reading. I only hope you start reading stuff that challenges your opinion about this soon.
(April 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Asians also perform better academically than whites, again making it not a white privilege in income or in education.
This is a straw-man. What I wrote was that whites have access to better education, not that they perform better academically. Perhaps you should read for content rather than rhetoric next time.