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

John Thornton jthorn65 at mchsi.com
Tue Jun 29 15:38:22 PDT 2004



>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

No I'm not making that error. The answer to #2 is yes, whites benefit from discriminating against people of color. Is society better off? No, but whites are. We can disagree about this if you wish but disagreeing is not the same thing as being mistaken.

John Thornton



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