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There are unquestionably advantages to growing up wealthy, but that's a question of class, not race.
by s4n1ty 6y ago
There are unquestionably advantages to growing up wealthy, but that's a question of class, not race.
- bhupy 6y agoIn this case, it appears as though you can draw a straight line from racial redlining policies to the current status quo elite profession pipeline. While you're correct that it's a question of class — class is unfortunately downstream of racial policies the long term effects of which we've never quite fixed.
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- rayiner 6y agoQuestions of class are questions of race because in America, the median wealth of black households is 1/8 that of white households. Apart from that, even upper middle class black people tend to be excluded from these opportunities because tech entrepreneurs live in upper middle class white neighborhoods instead of upper middle class black neighborhoods. It’s a chicken and egg problem.
- s4n1ty 6y agoIf you control for whether a child grows up with two parents then race becomes virtually irrelevant in predicting a child's life prospects. So why is race the focus?
- tptacek 6y agoNo, the disadvantage is racialized. White households at the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile of income live in neighborhoods where the median income is a double digits percentile higher than black households at the same income level, and the effect amplifies the lower your household income is.
- s4n1ty 6y agoWhat is the source of the data you're citing, and how does it establish that race is a causal factor?
- tptacek 6y agoThe Reardon, Fox, Townsend paper. You can just go read it. If you come back with rebuttals to the paper, I'd appreciate if you'd source them comparably. Thanks!
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- PascLeRasc 6y agoPlease stop responding to every comment asking for a source, it’s incredibly unhelpful. If that’s honestly all you got from this discussion about inequality then I truly feel sorry for you.
- s4n1ty 6y agoAbsurd. When someone makes a scientific claim it's perfectly reasonable to ask them for the evidence. That's how science works.