The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
This is such incredibly poor agenda-driven &quot;journalism&quot;, with cherry-picked data used to (poorly) attack a sort of straw man argument: <i>Asian Americans seem to offer proof that minorities can prosper — and even leapfrog whites — if they work hard and jump through the right hoops. For that reason, Asian Americans have often been invoked as a way to excuse the income gaps between whites and blacks or whites and Hispanics.</i><p>So even assuming the (unconvincing) argument that where asians live can account for the fact they are <i></i>more<i></i> successful than whites, how does their nonetheless COL-adjusted near parity (still ahead!) vs. whites undermine the idea that minorities can succeed in the USA?<p>It&#x27;s easy and cheap to virtue-signal your care for this difficult problem, but the elephants in the room here are IQ and culture, and mainstream liberalism is frankly bordering on fraudulence with its refusal to confront these topics. If you actually care about fixing the worsening income and wealth gap between races - and I would suggest everyone should, as it is clearly toxic to our social fabric - it&#x27;s long past time to have honest conversations about all of the potential underlying causes and possible solutions.