Why do all white males get judged for privilege?

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If you loose out for a job or university placement because of your skin colour then that is oppression.

Well, that had never happened to me. I've heard of white people making that charge, but I've never heard of evidence backing it up.

It is a strawman to manufacture a position and claim it is mine, Bill. I can only assume you're being deliberately disingenuous at this point.



That's not a fact, it's an opinion. Try again.




No, Bill. That's the logical conclusion of your arguments. I paraphrased in order to demonstrate the absurdity of your stated beliefs.



You're making an appeal to emotion on behalf of minorities and using said appeal as the justification for supporting your racist belief, rather than demonstrating actual privilege that is attached to skin colour. Not only is that not a strawman, it's actually a relatively benign criticism of how weak your argument is; I could have been a great deal more scathing, and justifiably so.



Demonstrate it.



You're chasing shadows now. This is as inane as the suggestion we should combat 'unconscious bias', which is the equivalent of chastising people for having nightmares.



Provide research based evidence to support this assertion. N.B. unsupported claims from sociologists won't be considered to be evidence.



Strawman.



No Bill. Your starting point is to respond to my earlier challenge, which you continue to evade. When you're willing to confront the inherent racism in the arguments you're supporting, we'll be able to move on.







Do you not understand reason for the necessity of human rights in law?



And you believe that classifying people based on their skin colour is the solution to this problem Progressives have "identified"?

"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
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That is literally what affirmative action is.

Well, have you personally ever lost out to a job or entry into college due to Affirmative Action?

Oh yeah, I'm a racist for hating racism. Go back to the Bizarro planet.
You seriously think it's only a matter of opinion that racial minorities have higher unemployment rates than whites?!?! Seriously, go back to the Bizarro planet.
Of course I understand the necessity of human rights in law. That's why we have laws to redress racism.
Progressives only focus on skin color because racists have used laws and social norms against people of said skin color. You conservatives say that racism comes from anti-racism, but all that reveals is how you want to return to the good old bad days by turning back racial gains.

I am British we don't have affirmative action, just because I haven't been a victim of something doesn't mean I cannot see the injustice. I have however been mistreated by government in a similar manner, when I was in college age 16-18 people got £30 a week if their parents earn't less than £30k, my mother had become a teacher when I was already in my failing secondary school. I hadn't had a good education, I was living in an abusive home yet simply because my mother earned over £30k a year at the time the government deemed me privileged and I was denied the same treatment as everyone else I knew this further alienated me from society. If I had been treated equally my life would be so much better.

You promote racist ideas. If you prefer not to be thought of as a racist, simply cease doing so.



Apparently you don't bother to read your own posts either.

"I have provided examples - black and Latino unemployment is unconscionably high. Are you going to disagree with that fact?"

The underlined word renders your statement an opinion.



Evidently not.

The laws are required because Americans are not equals, not because they are.



Because they can't see past it.



Name a non-Western nation that has better equality laws than the US. If you want to travel back in time and fight alongside MLK, better get inventing a time machine.



Swing and a miss. That's how blinded you are by your partisanship and your adherence to Progressivism. You don't recognise a liberal argument when you're being beaten over the head with it.



Quote me as saying anything remotely like that. Your bigotry is showing, Bill. You fell straight back on "I disagree with you so you're in my out-group which is default bad" in order to justify the above strawman.



And thus do we reach the terminus of your infantile, fallacy riddled argument. "Agree with me or you're a racist because <bogeyman stereotype>".

Either you have zero interest in a rational debate, or you truly hail from the Bizarro planet.

I am sincerely sorry you've had to go through what you did. That said, taking your rage out at someone else - especially if they aren't in your country - isn't going to make it better.
If you seriously need to talk to somebody about what you're going through, then feel free to PM me.

I'm not taking my rage out on anyone, I am making a principled argument that everyone should be equal under the law.

The fact of the matter is, people were hardly equal under the law who were born with the wrong skin color. Racism still exists, and no, it didn't just appear with Affirmative Action. Nobody is being punished for giving others a hand up.
Forgive me, as an Aspie I am not as perceptive as I would like to be. I just pick up on a lot of anger about being shorted.

So how it that the fault of an 18 year old white kid who has done no wrong? Why is it okay for the government to punish them?

Nothing left in the locker but ad hominem?

How sad.

Well you see, Daniel89, you were born a wrongskin. And wrongskins have to atone for the original sin they were born with - namely that of being born a wrongskin - because Progressives want to move forwards by burying everyone under a mountain of nonsense that happened before you were born (whilst projecting all over the place about how it's the evil conservatives [literally any non-Progressive] who have their heads stuck in the past) that you took no part in and yet which is somehow all entirely your fault.

Shame on you!