Asian Privileged

 "It is dismaying that most of the binding law in Britain comes from the European Commission in Brussels. But why, with its primacy at stake, did Parliament punt one of the most momentous decisions in British history to a referendum? The bedrock principle of representative government is that "the people" do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide. And once a legislature sloughs off responsibility and resorts to a referendum on the dubious premise that the simple way to find out what people want is to ask them, it is difficult to avoid recurring episodes of plebiscitary democracy." --Will 


This playoff baseball is so exciting. 19 Rays started the year with only two years Major League experience. Charlie Morton is the only $15 Million player they have ever had. Meadows is their best hitter. The lowest salaried team in the game. Against the "Moneyball" team, the fifth lowest payroll team.
We are off to Sarasota today, then to Bonita Springs Saturday.

A few sacred quotes from the untouchable Warmers:
“No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits… Climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.” ~Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister
“A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the enhanced greenhouse effect.” ~Richard Benedick, deputy assistant secretary of state, USA
“We have to offer up scary scenarios about global warming … …each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” ~Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmentalist
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” ~Kevin Trenberth, National Center For Atmospheric Research, USA
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” ~Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
“A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” ~Richard Benedick, deputy assistant secretary of state, USA
 “I would freely admit that on global warming we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.” ~Charles Alexander, Time magazine science editor
“We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” ~Timothy Wirth, Clinton Administration Under Secretary of State
These quotes in any other context would be devastating.

On this day in 1995, former football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. 



                   Asian Privileged


What gives white privilege a patina of empirical credibility is its statistical comparisons between blacks and whites. However, these statistics are often decontextualized, omitting base rates and key group comparators. As Thomas Sowell points out, “The mere omission of one crucial fact can turn accurate statistics into traps that lead to conclusions that would be demonstrably false if the full facts were known.” Take mortgage approval rates, for example.

In 2000, data from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights showed that 44.6 percent of black applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. In comparison, 22.3 percent of white applicants were turned down. In spite of data indicating that black-owned banks had turned down black applicants at rates higher than white-owned banks, accusations of discrimination within the banking sector were widespread. However, the same report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights revealed another interesting statistic: the mortgage rejection rate for Asian Americans was 12.4 percent. In other words, Asian Americans were approved at a higher rate than whites. This data point never saw the light of day in most newspapers or television news programs.

Seldom are Asian American data included in news stories or academic studies which conclude that racial discrimination explains much or most of the disparities between blacks and whites. Reporting this data would undermine, if not devastate, the conclusions made by the proponents of white privilege. This, according to journalist Wesley Yang, is why they are often excluded. Asians disrupt the narrative of white privilege. (somewhere)