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In reply to the discussion: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)There's only you and me, and "we" just disagree.
Those who assert white privilege don't seem to understand that.
"We are not getting ours" seems ridiculous when the "we" includes 1.7 million black households with more than $100,000 in assets (from the 2002 census of wealth), and because it then also translates into "you (others) are getting too much" when the "others" includes 9.2 million white non-hispanic households with less than $5,000 in assets.
The whole "equality of opportunity" meme sounds to me like just another way of saying "we don't care about poor people." It's looking at the 29 million households with less than $5,000 in assets and saying, the problem is not that lots of people are getting trampled and discarded by society. No, the problem is that it is unfair that only 20.3% of white people are being trampled while a whopping 48.4% of black people are being trampled.
But we don't want to try to stop ALL people from being trampled. We just want to equalize it. Of course, once things are equal (and fair) that will mean another 4.8 million white households will be getting trampled, but what the hey, that is the way the ball bounces.
BTW, did you hear the one about how poor white people vote against their self interest by not voting for liberals?