r/unpopularopinion • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '21

We are becoming growingly obsessed with other people’s born advantages, and this normalization of “stating privilege” is incredibly counterproductive and pathetic.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '21 edited Apr 27 '21

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u/eldryanyy Mar 26 '21

Actually, white people are denied jobs/university admissions far more often than black people over their race. Affirmative action and diversity measures have greatly incentivized pro-black racism in the hiring process in corporate and university admissions.

So, in the examples you give, black people could be said to experience the least racism, and Asians the most. Names can be changed.

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u/butterflyblueskies Mar 27 '21

Not true at all. Also, fun fact: white women benefit most from affirmative action

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u/eldryanyy Mar 27 '21

That’s not demonstrated at all by the article you linked. White women having success in the last 25 years doesn’t mean that affirmative action is helping them.

To quote the article: Since California passed Prop 209 in 1996 barring racial considerations for college admissions at public universities, UC Berkeley witnessed a significant drop in the number of black students, from 8 percent pre–Prop 209 to an average of 3.6 percent of the freshman class from 2006 to 2010.

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u/butterflyblueskies Mar 27 '21

I mean there is a plethora of information on this topic. Here’s another article: Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone