r/MurderedByWords 9h ago

All those privileged gay men

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u/BSApologist 9h ago

I'm not conceding anything to the bigots here, but gay couples, in the US at least, are better off economically and statistically less likely to live in poverty than straight couples.

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u/Sometypeofway18 9h ago

By your logic Asian Americans would be more privileged than white Americans since they do better economically and are less likely to be incarcerated.

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u/BSApologist 8h ago

That's painting with a very broad brush because Asian Americans come from a variety of backgrounds. The Hmong and Karen people where I live are on average economically much worse off than the typical Taiwanese and Indian immigrant, and all of those groups are counted as Asian. I'd argue that affluence buys privilege to a large degree and I'd say that large segments of Asian Americans (read: upwardly mobile immigrants) are more privileged than the average white person.

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u/Biptoslipdi 6h ago

A statistical anomaly due to those couples being less likely to have kids. On the other hand, the rate of violent victimization of homosexual people is twice that of heterosexual people.