UBC students warned about Asians' 'yellow privilege'https://thepostmillennial.com/ubc-students-warned-about-asians-yellow-privilegeStudents living in a residence of the University of British Columbia were sent a Google document on the "privilege" which East Asian students allegedly hold over African Americans and "working class and poor southeast Asians." The document, compiled by a UBC Residence Advisor, referred to Asians' alleged higher status as "yellow privilege."
The document defines "yellow privilege" as the "very real advantages to East Asians such as protections under the criminal law." To justify this characterization, the document cites an academic paper written in 2016 by a Berkeley law student named Stephen Chang, who was the editor-in-chief of the Asian American Law Journal and an editor of the California Law Review.
According to Chang, "Asian-American groups must recognize yellow privilege in order to more honestly participate in a larger community of social justice by recognizing our own internal privileges, while also recognizing the limits of our privilege in a white-dominated society." His argument has gained little attention since its publication.
To be clear, this happened in British Columbia. That said (I suspect this document simply voices an attitude academia holds but seldom states openly), it's been obvious to me for many years that East Asians, SE Asians, and South Asians are politically incorrect minorities in Progs'
Hierarchy of Victimhood.
