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In reply to the discussion: Tackling Asian Privilege [View all]badtoworse
(5,957 posts)Good satire should have bite and this one does. It doesn't deny the racial issues that black people face and IMO, it doesn't deal with black people at all. The whole point of the "white privilege" meme is to frame the fact that white people do not have to deal with the racial prejudice that black people face as something that whites should have to apologize for. The article points out that similarly, Asians do not face these prejudices and satricly suggests remedies to deal with this "Asian privilege". What the article describes is the essence of a double standard.
Sorry, but double standards are wrong, period. The fact that this double standard is being used to help remedy the injustice that black people are facing doesn't make it right.
The way whites and Asians get treated, i.e. not having to deal with prejudice, represents a fair standard that should be applied to everyone. Accordingly, there is nothing special about the way whites and Asians are treated that could reasonably called privilege and there is no reason why whites and Asians should be apologetic for the way they are treated. In no way does that minimize what black people face, but it does point to the proper framing - injustice, not privilege.