> Did you ever consider that it OK to select people in a way that manifests as privilege?
I never said it wasn't. I simply said that your parents being “first generation legal immigrants” does not serve as an effective preemptive rebuttal to accusations of white supremacy or privilege directed at you, because the legal immigration system selects for privilege and includes (and in some sense advantages) whites (and does not systematically exclude whites who might later have offspring who might become white supremacists.)
Whether it is good or bad that the system has selective features that create their own privilege classes and align with existing socio-economic privilege is a separate and unrelated question.
> And here you've made the assumption that I am white.
No, I have not. I've merely pointed out that the preemptive defense against claims of white supremacy and/or privilege that you have offered doesn't actually defend in any way against those claims. I've stated nothing that makes any presumption about your race, which I'm not even remotely interested in.
> Also, I love how you're lumping in privilege of white immigrants with that of "white privilege" in the U.S.. It is a remarkably miopic view, as whites are not a powerful minority everywhere.
That's true, there are many places (like the US) where they are the dominant and privileged majority rather than any kind of minority.
Though, as you note, it's your parents, not you, who are immigrants, so, insofar as the position of the White race would be relevant at all to your experience, it would be the position of the White race in the US, not in some hypothetical place where White privilege does not exist.
> I cannot believe someone is seriously arguing about white privilege
But you are the one who—preemptively, without provocation—raised the issue of white privilege. All I've done is pointed out that your preemptive defense completely fails to defend against the imagined future attack against which you deployed it.
> If people like you didnt make certain research topics forbidden
What people have made which research topic forbidden, and in what way are those people like me? You seem to be engaged in a feverish debate against positions you’ve only imagined exist.
> You dont even know my ethnicity
Nor do I care.
> you fucking racist.
What, precisely, have I said that is even remotely “racist”? All I've said is that your claim to have first-generation immigrant parents is not any kind of rebuttal to the accusations of white supremacy or privilege against whose imagined future occurence you offered it.
> And how deep do you want to go down this rabbit hole?
Not as deep as you've already gone on your own, thanks.
> Fuck you and your divisive politicking.
I'm not sure exactly how pointing out that your statement about your parentage was not even germane to the point you offered it for is “divisive politicking”, but, yeah, whatever.