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32 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

Bullshit.

You can work hard, achieve success AND understand you may have had some help/luck/privilege along the way. It isn't a zero sum game.

And....you can work hard and still not have success. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard airdvr. Yes you worked, but you also didn't start from nothing.

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1 hour ago, SkyDekker said:

Bullshit.

You can work hard, achieve success AND understand you may have had some help/luck/privilege along the way. It isn't a zero sum game.

Unfortunately the right has far too many snowflakes in its ranks these days for them to understand that. You have to deny the reality that being white generally makes life that bit easier because recognising it would hurt their precious feelings.

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1 hour ago, airdvr said:

One possibility for sure.  If I say I'm living the dream right now I'll be tagged as having white privilege.  It diminishes the hard work I've done throughout my life.

No, it doesn't.  It just means you were playing the game on an easier setting.  People can still win the game if they work hard enough.  It's just a lot harder if your race (or gender, or sexual orientation, or religion) sets the difficulty to "hard."

I had several benefits when I was born based purely on what race I was, what gender I was, where I was born, who my parents were, what my genetics were and what sexual orientation was.  I did not squander those benefits and worked hard to get where I am now.  But it was absolutely easier for me than for someone who was born black in the US, or born in Nigeria, or born to drug addicted parents, or born with a cleft palate.

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3 hours ago, billvon said:

No, it doesn't.  It just means you were playing the game on an easier setting.  People can still win the game if they work hard enough.  It's just a lot harder if your race (or gender, or sexual orientation, or religion) sets the difficulty to "hard."

I had several benefits when I was born based purely on what race I was, what gender I was, where I was born, who my parents were, what my genetics were and what sexual orientation was.  I did not squander those benefits and worked hard to get where I am now.  But it was absolutely easier for me than for someone who was born black in the US, or born in Nigeria, or born to drug addicted parents, or born with a cleft palate.

I get it however, painting with such a broad brush does more harm than good.  You don't have to look far to find successful non-white people.  How did they do it?

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1 minute ago, airdvr said:

I get it however, painting with such a broad brush does more harm than good.  You don't have to look far to find successful non-white people.  How did they do it?

They might have had other luck, and some of them might have worked harder. It’s not impossible for people of color also to have the right gender, above-average intelligence, and connections, etc. 

They might have had to work harder, and they might not. It’s just that on average, people in power select others like them, and people in power tend white and male.

Wendy P. 

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17 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

, and people in power tend white and male.

Wendy P. 

and in America they get richer and richer as the decades go by.

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While minorities make no progress.

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and America remains the most unequal country among the G-7

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America, wins the hunger games.  You can thank Rupert Murdoch for that. With runner up awards to FOX.

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49 minutes ago, airdvr said:

I get it however, painting with such a broad brush does more harm than good.  You don't have to look far to find successful non-white people.  How did they do it?

Why does it do harm?  It is reality, and it is never a mistake to understand more about reality.

Yes, you can find plenty of successful non-white people, just like you can find plenty of successful gay people, successful women, successful people with no legs and successful Muslims.  They were all playing the game on a harder setting than you were.  Again, that does not mean that you don't play the game well, or didn't try really hard, or work really hard.  Indeed, you may have worked far harder than many other people, and that's great.  But your work went farther than the same work from that black man did, because he was starting at a harder setting.

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1 hour ago, airdvr said:

I get it however, painting with such a broad brush does more harm than good.  You don't have to look far to find successful non-white people.  How did they do it?

He literally addressed that point in the post you’re replying to.
 

I’m honestly curious what it is you think he said?

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54 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Bye Bye Roe v Wade

Republicans got the gold mine. Democrats got the shaft.

We aren't telling women that they must wear full body bags and be with their male guardian when outside or that they can not go to school or work in nearly every possible job. Not yet, anyway.

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10 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

We aren't telling women that they must wear full body bags and be with their male guardian when outside or that they can not go to school or work in nearly every possible job. Not yet, anyway.

One of the justices wrote in their opinion that marriage equality and right to contraception is next. No real stretch to see Loving v. Virginia being re-discussed in the near future.

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14 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

One of the justices wrote in their opinion that marriage equality and right to contraception is next. No real stretch to see Loving v. Virginia being re-discussed in the near future.

Yes.Thomas. So much for the Enlightenment.

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33 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

One of the justices wrote in their opinion that marriage equality and right to contraception is next. No real stretch to see Loving v. Virginia being re-discussed in the near future.

No chance. The guy who wrote that, Clarence Thomas, is in an interracial marriage himself.

 

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33 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

More than one SCOTUS Justice lied under oath to get confirmed. I believe perjury is illegal in the US as well. There simply aren't consequences for that level of society.

trump lied his way through four years in office w/o consequence. As of now six will decide what 330 million will and won't do.

Its time to face it. The christian right's deal with the Lucifer has paid off. They will be celebrating white and christ. McConnell and his clan will be toasting with the finest Bourbon.

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2 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

And it is all Biden's doing. 

Not sure if that is sarcsm.

RBG's arrogance in hanging on when she should have retired led directly to this.  My wife WAS a huge RBG fan, but now she has nothing good to say for her.

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