It goes both ways, buddy. You can't expect anyone to think you matter when you can't make other people matter.

Also, funnily enough - how good is white privilege if he needed to use the visibility privilege of a minority to publish?

Seriously - this is less of a race issue than it is an issue of terrible publishing practices.

I'd be completely down with you if this were a post about how cultural differences negatively affected the african-american ghettos (even though I personally disagree with a lot of the ghetto culture). I'd be down with you if the post was about American consumerism being driven by sweatshops in oriental countries. Hell, I'd be right down there with you on the white privilege if this post was about American obesity. But no - this is just a single guy taking an identity that's not his to promote himself. As it stands, he's the one who ACTUALLY didn't have the privilege.

Equality works both ways. Just like on the Internet some people pretend to be a white cis male to avoid unsavory discussions, he used an asian female persona to increase visibility because people like YOU want these people to have increased visibility.

But if you're going to put under the "white cis patriarchy" umbrella everything that a white man does, I'm not going to promote your point of view. You're not entitled to anything.

I find it especially sad considering how you could have made a point about how, as your first paragraph seemed to steer towards, how nationality, sexual identity and all of these traits shouldn't matter in publications unless relevant. And yet it does, simply because some groups have worked to increase the visibility of some other groups. You've made a weapon out of minorities' identities - don't complain when it's used against you, and instead fight for true equality for all. Everyone has their issues, no matter how privileged they may seem - and claiming anything else is completely blind - especially considering that, in all technicalities, the most privileged people in the world are not caucasian.