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In reply to the discussion: A timely message to frustrated white guys [View all]OneGrassRoot
(23,953 posts)19. Love him! K&R n/t
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If you are a white guy in yor 40s, and you are not as successful as you think
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#15
Why can't we talk about CLASS in America? Why pretend like being white is like winning the lottery?
Romulox
Aug 2012
#21
Indeed. So "white guy" becomes shorthand for "middleclass and comfortable", even though most on
Romulox
Aug 2012
#24
From an racially ambiguous brown DUer... +1,000,000! This is just an unproductive distraction
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#33
Thanks Zalatix. Dividing working people based on race is precisely what the ruling class wants. nt
Romulox
Aug 2012
#38
Dividing working people based on anything that works (not just race) is what the ruling class wants.
pampango
Aug 2012
#57
It's almost as if the Boomers want young people to pay the price for THEIR privilege. nt
Romulox
Aug 2012
#36
To amplify this brilliant post: we have the worst class mobility in the developed world. Worst.
Romulox
Aug 2012
#37
No. That's not really a coherent dialogue on class, -at all-. "White" is not an economic class. nt
Romulox
Aug 2012
#41
There's already been a not-so-subtle attempt to smear me as a racist for bringing up Class here...
Romulox
Aug 2012
#49
You get that white privilege (and male privilege) aren't really about individual people, right?
cyberswede
Aug 2012
#58