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In reply to the discussion: A timely message to frustrated white guys [View all]
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)59. Did you not watch the video
He was quite explicit that white privilege didn't mean that you were exempt from having problems in your life. However, all in all, you're better off on average being a white heterosexual male. People in this country are judged by the color of their skin and, if it's not white, life is a lot harder. That's why it's always so ludicrous to hear white men say they are being discriminated against as a group -- which is what the video addressed.
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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