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by jsnk 1596 days ago
"With a broad stroke, male and White/Caucasian workers simply earn more than their counterparts. "

Why does this sentence leave out Asian workers, when the Asian workers' bell curve actually skews towards even more pay than White/Caucasian workers'?

3 comments

It’s an inconvenient fact.
Because it invalidates the anti-white narrative.
Kindest interpretation is that the 'and' there is a restrictive and subsets to the male and White.

Alternative is that Asians are a minority in the US, being 6% of Americans, while White people are 60%, and so it is more interesting for talking about this larger group.

Seems a narrative needs to be communicated, so Asian Americans who are doing better than whites are excluded.