On an episode of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart tries to get O'Reilly to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege. To rebut, O'Reilly responds with the following: "If there is white privilege, then there has to be Asian privilege." The men do not stay on the subject for more than a second; however, since I am an Asian American, this statement raised my eyebrows to my temples.

A study conducted by Princeton professor Thomas Espenshade and his collaborator Alexandria Radford revealed that being Asian resulted in a 140 point score deduction on a person's SAT when applying to prestige universities. Their data displayed that Asian students had lower odds of getting accepted than their white counterparts with equal SAT scores.

Just last spring I went through the college application process. One of the biggest concerns for me, along with many of my friends, was whether to check "Asian" for our race on the common app application. A student currently enrolled in University of Pennsylvania commented:

I was very hesitant about putting my race from what I heard from peers, faculty, and even admission people. They said that Asians have one of the hardest times getting in... An ex-admissions counselor told me that the college process starts with separating apps by race then cutting them off by SAT scores. Basically all of the Asians around me were scared about that.

A number of Asian-American college freshmen claim that although they considered not enclosing their race, their names would be a give away. Raymond Lo, a Temple University student, commented:

I pondered about concealing a large part of my identity in order to make the playing field even. Eventually I realized that this effort would be futile because there would be so many other tellers of my race and ethnicity and came to terms that there was nothing that could be done to oppose the discrimination.

However the struggle for Asian-Americans doesn't end with their acceptance letter to college. Statistics display that although Asian Americans represent 25% of Ivy League Schools' population, only 2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are Asian-American. In addition, it has been reported that Asian Americans make on average 400K less than their Caucasian colleagues. It's getting really hard to spot that Asian privilege now.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are Asian-Americans who constantly struggle to find acting roles on television shows and big screen movies. In one of my previous articles I discuss the percentage of women and minorities in the top grossing movies of 2015. The percentage of Asian actors and actresses in Hollywood is simply baffling. With such a low number of Asian actors in American films, one would think that the movie "Aloha," which includes a Hawaiian woman who is a quarter Chinese as a main character, would pave the way for more films with roles for Asian actors.

However, this turned out to be a great chance for Hollywood to prove the existence of the white privilege that O'Reilly so stubbornly avoids recognizing. Instead of casting a Hawaiian woman with Chinese roots, the director chose Emma Stone (who, in fact, has no Chinese or Pacific Islander ancestry whatsoever). Have you ever heard of an Asian actor cast as a white character? Of course not, it is hard enough for Asian actors to be cast as Asian characters.

Another point that O'Reilly has completely missed with his statement is -- which Asian Americans is he talking about? Is he including those Asian Americans from Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, etc.)? Is he including those Asian Americans from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan)?

I know for sure that he's not including those from South Asia, because no sane person could ever consider Afghan Americans privileged.

Now please tell me, what exactly does Bill O'Reilly mean when he talks about Asian privilege? Because I have no idea.