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"It also seems to seems to suggest that if marginalized groups have drastically worse outcomes, it's because of some characteristic within those people."

What about minority groups that have drastically better outcomes?

For a non-US-controversial example, Chinese people in Malaysia, probably the only country that has affirmative action ("Bumiputera") for the majority ethnic group.

The historical experience says that disproportionally successful minority groups tend to live under a persistent shadow of violent retribution / ethnic cleansing / genocide at the hands of the majority, so their "privilege" is often very two-edged. But this situation, actually fairly common across the world, is rarely discussed in modern racial narrative.




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