White Privilege: The Sudden Sharp Rise in Caucasian Mortality Rates

White Mortality Rates Losing Ground

Initial research indicated that middle-aged white male mortality rates were increasing, meaning that the target group was dying younger, contrary to trends for other ethnic groups over the last several years. Then, around 2005, middle-aged white women started showing higher mortality rates as well, and a new study shows that young white people are also showing rates not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago.

The search is now on to explain why this so-called privileged class is, in fact, faring worse than the general public and other ethnic groups.  There are several hypothesis for the trend:

Rising rates of overdose deaths and suicide appear to have erased the benefits from advances in medical treatment for most age groups of whites. Death rates for drug overdoses and suicides “are running counter to those of chronic diseases,” like heart disease, said Ian Rockett, an epidemiologist at West Virginia University.

Darmouth economist Jonathan Skinner remarked that the trend lines for drug overdose deaths looked like the outbreak of some horrifying new infectious disease.

In a study cited by NPR, young heroin abusers described it as a cheaper, easier-to-obtain alternative to the prescription painkillers they got hooked on.  The more recent New York Times piece also tells the stories of several middle-aged whites who graduated from prescription drugs to heroin, with deadly results.

The New York Times piece on rising mortality rates for young whites includes the suggestion that black youth might be benefiting from a bit of racial discrimination: “Studies have found that doctors are much more reluctant to prescribe painkillers to minority patients, worrying that they might sell them or become addicted.”

One of the Princeton economists who launched this story by noting the higher mortality rates for middle-aged whites, Anne Case, said the surge in young white mortality was part of “a real rumbling that bad things are coming down the pike.”  Virtually every other condition that can prove fatal for young- and middle-aged people has been controlled with improved medical treatments, but drug abuse and related suicides are getting worse.

Also mentioned by several researchers is the dissolution of family relationships – the scarcity of stable families to provide support for both the young and middle-aged, as they contend with health problems, stressful situations, and economic hardship.  “For too many, and especially for too many women, they are not in stable relationships, they don’t have jobs, they have children they can’t feed and clothe, and they have no support network,” said University of Southern California professor Eileen Crimmins.

Olga Khazan at The Atlantic proposes an economic dimension to the problem, as decent jobs for people without college degrees have been “evaporating quickly over the past 15 years.”  That trend should, in theory, affect non-white demographics as well, but Khazan describes the despair of reduced expectations – people struggling to “afford things like therapy, gym memberships, and recreation that isn’t drugs,” losing the social networks and sense of purpose that come from career employment, and worrying about their retirement years.  For better or worse, that frustration with a lost American Dream could be especially acute for middle-aged whites.

Another point to consider is that while increased health means people can expect longer lives, and longer careers, they can also be among the first victims of outsourcing, and the first to be replaced by cheaper imported labor.  This is mentioned in Michelle Malkin’s new book Sold Out, which tells many stories of older tech professionals being made to train younger foreign replacements on their way out the door.  Whether the replacement labor is native or foreign-born, older workers with a great deal of accumulated seniority and benefits usually wind up costing more than young new hires.

We have long been assured that marriage isn’t that important, out-of-wedlock births are nothing to fret about, single life is “liberating” and “empowering,” government welfare-bureaucrats can serve as your partner in life, welfare is as good as employment, mass immigration is simply covering the “jobs Americans won’t do,” and people who talk about spiritual values are just Religious Right cranks.

One notable name jumping on the anti-white bandwagon is Fareed Zakaria, who wrote a column for the Washington Post where he basically cited the ‘white die-off’ as contributing to Trump’s popularity…and that Trump is incapable of ‘saving the white race’ despite all hope.

The bottom line is that life is not necessarily easy for those who were “born white”, and white privilege is just another moronic claim by some to excuse poor performance by certain ethnic groups, and to demand more “free goodies” to balance the scales.

The reality? Life is hard for most, and some groups such as whites, are actually dying earlier and earlier due to the stresses and problems of our modern society.

Source: breitbart.com