This “ethnic minority” bullshit is still annoying the hell out of me.
If you’re a white man living in a house full of black women in Chinatown, in a southern city where whites are less than 50% of the population, in a state where the northern half is majority-white but the southern half is overrun by mestizos, how are you benefiting from any supposed “white male privilege”? How does your regular experience of (non-white) racism and (female) sexism differ from that of a person who’s a member of a recognized “ethnic minority” group? How are you not, for all practical purposes, an ethnic-minority group member? (Bonus “minority-group points” for being a gay white man in a house full of straight black women.)
Or, if you’re an Asian living in an Asian-majority community in northern California and attending UC Berkeley, are you still an “ethnic minority”?
(Hint: Berkeley is a majority-Asian school.)
