Why whitemaxxing is high ROI

[Deleted member 63681]

Domain	Dark-vs-light penalty (effect size)	Study / data set
Hourly earnings (immigrants, all races)	Darkest-quintile immigrants earn 0.76 ¢ per $1 made by lightest-quintile co-ethnics (-24 %).	(socialequity.duke.edu)
Hourly earnings (native-born U.S. Blacks)	One shade lighter = +8–10 % wage bump after controls.	(socialequity.duke.edu)
Bachelor’s attainment (U.S. Blacks)	Very-light skin: 47 %; very-dark skin: 23 % (-24 pp).	(scholarcommons.scu.edu)
Federal criminal sentences (all males)	Dark-skinned defendants receive 13–15 % longer sentences than light-skinned same-race defendants.	(journals.uchicago.edu)
Online-dating swipe rate (Tinder experiment, 2024)	Asian male face lightened one shade: +25 pp matches; darkened one shade: –20 pp vs. baseline photo.	(tandfonline.com)
Wealth gap inside Black households	Median net worth of lightest-skin Black adults is 3× that of darkest-skin peers.	(academic.oup.com)

TDLR​

1. the darker= –10 % on wages and dateability.
   The penalty stacks almost linearly until it plateaus in the darkest quintile.
2. Colorism is harder than schooling in some cases.
   A dark-skinned Black grad earns less, on average, than a light-skinned peer with one full year less education. (socialequity.duke.edu)
3. Sentencing bias isn’t just Black-vs-White—shade within Black matters.
   Afrocentric features + dark tone equal an extra 1–2 years on a 10-year sentence. (journals.uchicago.edu)
4. Dating apps magnify the bias.
   One Photoshop step toward “whiter” skin restored about ¾ of the match loss Asian men suffer versus White controls. (tandfonline.com)
5. Escape hatch = human-capital + phenotype.
   Light-skinned immigrants with college English earn more than darker natives; phenotype trumps nativity in labor markets. (socialequity.duke.edu)

lighter skin inside any non-White group benefits:
8-10 % paycheck,
halves your odds of extreme sentencing
and almost doubles right-swipes

 

[idkmanimao]

Domain	Dark-vs-light penalty (effect size)	Study / data set
Hourly earnings (immigrants, all races)	Darkest-quintile immigrants earn 0.76 ¢ per $1 made by lightest-quintile co-ethnics (-24 %).	(socialequity.duke.edu)
Hourly earnings (native-born U.S. Blacks)	One shade lighter = +8–10 % wage bump after controls.	(socialequity.duke.edu)
Bachelor’s attainment (U.S. Blacks)	Very-light skin: 47 %; very-dark skin: 23 % (-24 pp).	(scholarcommons.scu.edu)
Federal criminal sentences (all males)	Dark-skinned defendants receive 13–15 % longer sentences than light-skinned same-race defendants.	(journals.uchicago.edu)
Online-dating swipe rate (Tinder experiment, 2024)	Asian male face lightened one shade: +25 pp matches; darkened one shade: –20 pp vs. baseline photo.	(tandfonline.com)
Wealth gap inside Black households	Median net worth of lightest-skin Black adults is 3× that of darkest-skin peers.	(academic.oup.com)

TDLR​

1. the darker= –10 % on wages and dateability.
   The penalty stacks almost linearly until it plateaus in the darkest quintile.
2. Colorism is harder than schooling in some cases.
   A dark-skinned Black grad earns less, on average, than a light-skinned peer with one full year less education. (socialequity.duke.edu)
3. Sentencing bias isn’t just Black-vs-White—shade within Black matters.
   Afrocentric features + dark tone equal an extra 1–2 years on a 10-year sentence. (journals.uchicago.edu)
4. Dating apps magnify the bias.
   One Photoshop step toward “whiter” skin restored about ¾ of the match loss Asian men suffer versus White controls. (tandfonline.com)
5. Escape hatch = human-capital + phenotype.
   Light-skinned immigrants with college English earn more than darker natives; phenotype trumps nativity in labor markets. (socialequity.duke.edu)

lighter skin inside any non-White group benefits:
8-10 % paycheck,
halves your odds of extreme sentencing
and almost doubles right-swipes

imao, chat gpt so obv, atleast tell it to not make a chart, bolding too

 

[Deleted member 63681]

imao, chat gpt so obv, atleast tell it to not make a chart, bolding too

good info tho