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It's true that part of it is just America treats all its poor people so terribly. Legolas Send a noteboard - 30/06/2020 09:35:40 PM

If you start comparing living conditions for minorities in the EU vs America, it's obvious that the former scores far better when it comes to health care or criminal justice - but that goes for poor white people as well. While the American criminal justice system is even worse for minorities, it's plenty shitty enough for poor white people - see also Mook's article and the discussion below.

Same with health care. Europeans are baffled whenever they see Americans who seem to think they have the best health care in the world - because we look at the statistics and the average health outcomes, e.g. the mortality rate for mothers giving birth, which are significantly worse than ours, despite the US being significantly wealthier and spending a significantly larger share of that greater wealth on health care. But of course, if those Americans entirely ignore the health of people who don't have a good job with health insurance benefits and can't pay the staggering costs out of their own pocket, they may well say that their health care system is better - for those who can afford it.

Definitely, EU countries also struggle with structural racism, with inequalities in education and job opportunities, and so on. My own country scores particularly badly in terms of the education achievement gap between whites and minorities. But I do want to add one point there: those minorities that we're talking about in the European context are, to a very large extent, guest workers and their families who arrived starting from the 1960s. Or people from the former colonies, who started to arrive around the same time, after those colonies gained their independence. It's not really comparable to the position of Black Americans.

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I have to be honest, the privilege argument is dubious. - 30/06/2020 04:19:42 AM 395 Views
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Maybe Canada. *NM* - 30/06/2020 06:57:01 PM 176 Views
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It's true that part of it is just America treats all its poor people so terribly. - 30/06/2020 09:35:40 PM 338 Views
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here is an interesting article on mass incarceration in the USA. - 30/06/2020 02:30:09 PM 447 Views
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This White/Non-White Binary choice is simplistic. And leaves no room for nuance. - 01/07/2020 03:46:17 PM 354 Views
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You have a binary choice... - 02/07/2020 12:10:49 AM 329 Views
Found the article (or at least something similar). - 01/07/2020 11:04:53 PM 339 Views

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