Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America? (Barf see below)

National Review Online ^ | March 23, 2015 | Lee Habeeb and Mike Level

[C19fan]

Much has been written about privilege in academic settings over the past few decades. There’s the privilege of wealth, and the advantages wealth confers if a baby is lucky enough to be born into it. Much too has been written about the advantages of being born into this world as a Caucasian — known in academia as “white privilege.” But not enough has been written about the most important advantage a baby can have in America: the advantage of being born with a mother and father who happen to be married. Call it “the marriage privilege” — the advantages are startling.

[C19fan]

Why the barf alert? Because the two have written before on NRO about the need for amnesty and more legal immigration. Mr. Leven, who is COO of Sands Casinos, needs slave wage labor to work at his casinos. The percentage of children being raised in single parenthood households in the Hispanic community is over 40% the 2nd highest after African-Americans. They decry the rise of single parent households yet they want to further depress the wages of men in the lower/working class making them even less marriageable material and import more workers from groups with 40+% rate of single parent households.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”They decry the rise of single parent households yet they want to further depress the wages of men in the lower/working class making them even less marriageable material and import more workers from groups with 40+% rate of single parent households. “

In the part of Maryland I live the Indian and Korean immigrants make up the two (opposite sex) married parent families, and its the white and black American woman who make up the single mom families.

They haven't been here long enough to have their work and family ethics destroyed, as with Americans.

[mjp]

the advantages of being born into this world as a Caucasian — known in academia as “white privilege.

White privilege is a variant of the equality of opportunity doctrine.It is an excuse for big government,redistributionism,antidiscrimination laws,confiscatory taxation, confiscation of inheritances,and many other laws that are against the nature of reality.They justify these laws with the view that opportunities are fundamentally external to the individual, which the government can dish out like Santa Claus, rather than being situations where an individual can take advantage of to his gain by making his own choices and taking his own actions.

[TigersEye]

Much too has been written about the advantages of being born into this world as a Caucasian — known in academia as “white privilege.” But not enough has been written about the most important advantage a baby can have in America: the advantage of being born with a mother and father who happen to be married.

The authors are playing bait and switch with their main premise. First they speak of "being born into this world" and then they change it to "the most important advantage a baby can have in America." That confuses everything they say after that. I think a black born in America has a lot more "privilege" in life than a white born in Romania or Chechnya for example.

Or if we're going to speak about married parents vs. single parents the same disparity might be true depending on where you're born. A child of a single parent in America might have a lot better chance in life than a child of married parents in Nigeria or Bangladesh.

Until the authors decide to pick one premise to start from and stick to it it is pointless to entertain anything they have to say.