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I read that a couple of times, and I don't think he was saying people 'survived the Holocaust' because they were white. I think he's saying people who immigrated to the US who were able to 'make it work', ie become prosperous over here, did so in part because they were entering a society that has all sorts of prejudices that make it easier for white immigrants to succeed than those with brown or black skins.

It's the same thing as white people who say 'my immigrant ancestors arrived in the US after slavery, so why should we pay reparations'? It's not that they personally necessarily owned slaves, but that they still have benefited from the ongoing institutional racism in society. Obviously not as much as those whose families benefited for a couple of centuries, but they still do benefit.