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No, this is an intentional misdirection by them. The important motivation is to undermine the influence of the majority white population. In that regard, it is always important to make every other ethnic group a victim and never paint anyone but white people as benefactors of systemic racism.

Inconvenient data points, such as the one you describe, are intentionally omitted.

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Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar, let alone (god help us) race war. We're trying to avoid that here, for what should be obvious reasons if you've read the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

E.g. In the orignal "Women make 70 cents for every dollar a man makes" gov memo, it was also said that Asian men make 115 cents for every dolar a white man makes. That doesn't fit the narrative so it's just ignored.

The gap between white and Asian outcomes is due to immigration policies which make it easier for wealthy people to get in. The US imports rich asians who can afford to send their kids to MIT, the rich get richer ect. The gender pay gap is a different issue and doesn’t need to address immigration policy.

Vietnamese Americans, the descendants of refugees from a war-torn country, make more than White Americans.

> The gap between white and Asian outcomes is due to immigration policies

source?

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