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Apparently all those prestige awards, $600,000 genius grants, and speeches sponsored by Shell Oil can't buy a thick skin
From the president down to the people setting the agenda at the NYT, there seems to be a contagion of a lack of intellectual humility and extreme narcissism plaguing American elites
Let's be clear what NHJ is arguing: people who came to the United States after 1965 did not face severe hardships. Betraying a stunning ignorance of the social conditions of people fleeing wars and genocides, dictatorships and terror. https://twitter.com/coldxman/status/1294759234056474625
Even within the United States, people with Muslim names face twice the level of job discrimination as people with African American names. The world isn't as simple as she portrays but she is not looking to depict a fair picture either. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41330896?seq=1
There is immense hardship you can face growing up in a country where the GDP per capita is 1/10 of what it is in the United States, you come to an entirely new place, have to learn the language, the customs, situate yourself into a community.
And yes some white folks have plenty of hardship too. In 2013, can you guess what kind of county had the worst life expectancy in America? It was McDowell County, WV, which is 90% white.
A Pakistani kid who played dead to avoid being murdered by the Taliban just won a spot at Oxford. Perhaps the NYT will give him a lecture on his privilege https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8628483/A-level-student-played-dead-survive-2014-Taliban-massacre-wins-place-Oxford-University.html
