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Sounds to me like that's more a result of your family, smarts, getting into the right college, etc than being white or male.

Possibly, though being white (or male) has influence on whether you get into the right college (or go to college at all).

Being white or male might have helped a bit, but I'm a white male and I didn't get paid 500k right out of school. If EVERY white male make 500k starting the day they graduated I'd believe that your theory holds true. But they don't.

This is a baffling claim. So no one has any privilege over anyone else unless they are among the 1% top earners in society? I can't even comprehend such logic.

In any case, it's not my theory (I was just explaining it), and it's hardly without merit: this has been demonstrated in studies, such as [1] and [2].

[1] http://d.pr/f/guzI

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873



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