2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support the Free Trade policies that the Corporate Democrats are selling? [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)I'm talking about material privilege, you're talking about privileged attitudes. Both are valid but are describing different things.You're basically saying that the playing field has evened, all that's left is to make up generations of lost time, but white people are angry about the evening of said playing field. I'm saying the playing field isn't even close to even yet, either in wealth or income.
The question is why is there data that says two different things about the same issue?
Also I think location is an issue, as is expectations. For example, my wages may be higher on paper as a young AA than they would have been in 1990. But due to discrimination and other factors, to access those wages, I have to live in an expensive market like DC where the median price of a 1BR is 2000 dollars/mo (which is almost ALL of my after-tax income). Because after all, I can't access the kind of good-old-boy networks that create access to either the high pay, high access jobs, or the few quality jobs in suburban and rural locales. Right now, people are trying to sell *rooms* for 1k a month here (and yes I am considering moving). And also, it may be that young people had much higher expectations in terms of material wealth (even if many of the degrees are rather iffy, millenials are the most educated generation in history, and not ALL of those degrees are in basket weaving), and are comparing a tighter job market for middle wage jobs in diverse fields to a time when any mediocre white guy could support a family. I think young POC millenials share those heightened expectations, which is how Bernie Sanders was able to (barely) win black people under the age of 30.