Yes, white men are being oppressed.

[ProSense]

62. Hmmm?

Because white men ARE separate from the Plutocracy!!!

Are you a Plutocrat? Are any of the white men you know a part of the Plutocracy? No. Chances are 100% of the white men you know are struggling like everyone else. MAYBE LESS SO, but still, the axe can fall at any moment upon any one of them.

Herman Cain ain't white.

They're predicting a global depression and population crash in 2030. This is a big fat setup, ProSense. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.html

White people may be better off today, but when 2030 hits and the Plutocracy starts cashing humanity out with a whole slew of manufactured (read: PHONY) shortages, 99% of all whites will be the (racist word of the day) along with everyone else. It won't mean a hill of beans whether whites have it better than blacks - we'll all be flushed out.

So "Herman Cain ain't white" means that blacks are the oppressors? First, I'm not white and not male.

See, that's your entire point: White men are oppressed because some white men are struggling. It's a false equivalency because in an all white nation, there would be people struggling.

Let's discuss the myth of white privilege.

From the OP:

Yes, white men are being oppressed.

So are black men, gays, white women, straight people, black women, religious folks, Hispanic men and women, atheists... in fact, all of America's working class, 99% of our population, is being oppressed.

You see, that's not a "we're all in this together statement" because you used the title to invalidate notion that white men are the oppressors and to invalidate the struggles of other groups as equivalent. You were making a point about income inequality, but you made the emphasis a false equivalency. Like I said up thread, it's the same argument used by white men to attack policies that address discrimination and inequality.

Webb Calls For White Americans To End ‘Government Directed Diversity Programs’

Our guest blogger is Sam Fulwood III, a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Maybe Sen. James Webb, the Democratic senator from Virginia, didn’t understand that what he was saying made him sound like a mossback from the last century. In a bizarre and unfortunate opinion article published in Friday’s Wall Street Journal. I’m being charitable because surely the Democratic senator from Virginia didn’t mean to sound as bigoted as the article makes him seem. No, surely he wasn’t arguing that white Americans suffer from federal policies that favor everyone but themselves.

“Those who came to this country in recent decades from Asia, Latin America and Africa did not suffer discrimination from our government, and in fact have frequently been the beneficiaries of special government programs,” Webb wrote, arguing for a retreat from those unspecified federal programs. “The same cannot be said of many hard-working white Americans, including those whose roots in America go back more than 200 years.”

Beyond being grossly ignorant about the current effects of what he calls “present-day diversity programs,” Webb is engaging in reckless racial inversion. While he carefully exculpates black Americans, whom he describes as “still in need,” Webb makes a scurrilous case that white Americans – southerners and Baptists, in particular – are being harmed by nonwhite groups who receive “special consideration in a wide variety of areas including business startups, academic admissions, job promotions and lucrative government contracts.” His solution is a call for white people to unite and end “government directed diversity programs.”

Clearly, Webb is unaware that affirmative actions programs have been effectively dismantled by the Supreme Court. But worse, he’s oblivious to the fact that his screed treads dangerously close to the discredited divide-and-conqueror tactics of the Southern strategy. In this new formation, Webb pits the sweeping and swelling segments of America’s immigrant population against native-born Americans with the aim of rallying the nation’s “white cultures.”

If he thinks this is a necessary step toward racial healing, especially after the week the nation’s just had, then he’s even more misguided than his article reveals. Somebody, perhaps one of his congressional colleagues, needs to tell Sen.Webb to get his head out of the last, sad epoch of covert racist talk and join the rest of America in the 21st century.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/23/webb-wsj/