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In reply to the discussion: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Bemoans The End Of White Rule In The United States [View all]bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)If you want to make the argument, you would have to look at some of the more blatant and damaging "corruption, scandal and incompetence" episodes in the past generation, and then demonstrate that they were the result of "non-whites" being involved.
Look at the Great Recession we are still rebuilding from. Who were the non-whites that crashed the global credit system and left the housing markets, and all the rest of the markets, in wreckage? Were those hedge funds really all run by blacks and Mexicans?
A previous debacle was the S&L crisis and virtual collapse of the 90's, that blew a big hole in the economy and cost the government something around $400 billion to patch up. So - who were the blacks and Mexicans to blame there?
How about the recession under GH Bush? The recession under Reagan? What color were the incompetents responsible for initiating and screwing up the Second Iraq War? How about the inflationary spiral and the whole mess under Carter - or were "the whites" still in charge then?
However much you might try to apologise away and justify what the Op-ed really meant to say, the gist of it remains idiocy.