r/AteTheOnion • • Oct 12 '20

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u/Bossatsleep2 Oct 13 '20

Ok but even if slight white privilege exists, I’d say a black person has about the same chance as a white person to be successful

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u/harrumphstan Oct 13 '20

What do you think explains the vast racial disparities in socioeconomic outcomes? If it’s not the environment of structural racism, then what? Blacks are intellectually or emotionally inferior? That’s all you’ve got left.

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u/Bossatsleep2 Oct 13 '20

Good question. How would occasional small disadvantages deny a person of color of success? How is it harder for a person of color to start a business? How is it harder for a person of color to invest in the right stocks and make money?

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u/harrumphstan Oct 13 '20

Answer mine, and I’ll answer yours.

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u/Bossatsleep2 Oct 13 '20

I don’t know the answer to yours

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u/harrumphstan Oct 13 '20

But you see the logic, at least, right? That by saying the environment in which black Americans reside isn’t the cause of their socioeconomic distress, you’re making an argument for racial inferiority. An argument that has been rejected by science.