[lbo-talk] Comment on F-9/11 and racism

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Jun 28 23:02:28 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "John Thornton" <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>


> The benefits of being white are huge and hardly fleeting. Do police pull
> white people over just for driving a Mercedes? Do employers, who hire
> people primarily based on their perception of the candidates ability to
> "get along" with the team see blacks as easily integrated into the "team"
> as whites...

You're conflating two distinct questions here:

1) Are whites relatively better off than minorities? (The answer is clearly yes.)

2) Do whites benefit from their discrimination? (Though whites clearly discriminate, and minorities are clearly worse off as a result, it's not clear that whites are consequently better off in absolute terms as a result.)

-- Luke



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