OdontoBear66 said:
Bobodeluxe said:
It's tough being white. People just don't understand.
Cute, but also a bit arseholic. So cool thrusting anti white these days as if so many of current day whites have something to do with the society's problems at hand. I see but civility and feelings of diversity and compassion, unless one wants to equate all whites with the ugliest bigoted whites which are reduced in numbers significantly from the day of yore. That in itself is a good thing, but in that it exists taints and poisons the water. Don't get it.
I think you have the burdens reversed.
It is 100% meaningless/false to assert disadvantage due to being white.
That is one of the worst things about the right wing white supremacists - that they believe they are the defenders of the "white race" against (whatever bad danger they happen to claim exists), and they assert this justifies whatever horrible means they choose to avoid Armageddon [means, by the way, that are unjustifiable even in the hands of people who ARE actually disadvantaged due to whatever immutable characteristic that qualifies them for being oppressed due to their identity].
The central point in this nexus is that the central sin of whatever ism it happens to be (i.e., racisim, sexism, religious intolerance, etc.) is that the victim has to be actually vulnerable due to membership in a group he or she cannot choose out of.
So, in that sense, the only times one is really disadvantaged in this society on account of being "white", are those extreme minority of cases where a "white" person is in a particular neighborhood (physical or otherwise) in which they are subject to opprobrium on that account, AND in a significant enough minority (and without access to the majority status they enjoy everywhere else in the country) that they are in actual danger from which they cannot escape at that moment; and there is just NO generally applicable societal circumstance in which that could be said to apply in any general way.