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When talking about groups, that makes sense. I think one of the points that the author is making is that it doesn't make sense to apply this to individuals with

When talking about groups, that makes sense. I think one of the points that the author is making is that it doesn't make sense to apply this to individuals within this group. "White males are privileged" is a reasonable statement to make with plenty of evidence to support it. "You have it better than me because you're a white male" doesn't, because there's a significant amount of overlap in the bell curves of "better off" (regardless of how you define it) between white males, and black women (to give an example). It's more-or-less the same argument as assuming that any given man is physically stronger than any given woman because on average men are stronger.

reroute1 7y ago
'"White males are privileged" is a reasonable statement to make with plenty of evidence to support it.' Is it though? I think you're going to need to be a lot more specific than that to make a reasonable statement. You can try to support your original statement, but that's so vague it could mean whatever you want.
- threwawasy1228 7y ago
  I saw a recent statistic on the talent.works blog that might be interesting to this discussion. They had a sample size of around 6-10k and found that women had a much higher interview rate than men, at all levels of experience, and across multiple categories of industry. Here is the graphic related to their article. [0] But on that same dataset it was found that Asians and Whites get more disproportionately more job offers than Black and Hispanic applicants in America. So while things might be shifting or evening out for some characteristics, like gender, in others they are still going strong. [0] https://i1.wp.com/talent.works/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/requirements_required_by_gender-1.png https://i1.wp.com/talent.works/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/re...
  - reroute1 7y ago
    This data is interesting, but in the blog post the judgment made about it(or heavily suggested) that it's due to stereotypes and discrimination is a very broad stroke and it can't all be attributed to that. Maybe that is a part of it, but how much and in what specific cases? That is the hard part. And aside from that employment is one dimension of 'privilege'. How could you possibly calculate all the privilege across a human life... there are endless dimensions

reroute1 7y ago

'"White males are privileged" is a reasonable statement to make with plenty of evidence to support it.' Is it though? I think you're going to need to be a lot more specific than that to make a reasonable statement. You can try to support your original statement, but that's so vague it could mean whatever you want.

threwawasy1228 7y ago
I saw a recent statistic on the talent.works blog that might be interesting to this discussion. They had a sample size of around 6-10k and found that women had a much higher interview rate than men, at all levels of experience, and across multiple categories of industry. Here is the graphic related to their article. [0] But on that same dataset it was found that Asians and Whites get more disproportionately more job offers than Black and Hispanic applicants in America. So while things might be shifting or evening out for some characteristics, like gender, in others they are still going strong. [0] https://i1.wp.com/talent.works/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/requirements_required_by_gender-1.png https://i1.wp.com/talent.works/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/re...
- reroute1 7y ago
  This data is interesting, but in the blog post the judgment made about it(or heavily suggested) that it's due to stereotypes and discrimination is a very broad stroke and it can't all be attributed to that. Maybe that is a part of it, but how much and in what specific cases? That is the hard part. And aside from that employment is one dimension of 'privilege'. How could you possibly calculate all the privilege across a human life... there are endless dimensions