Alight, this is, whatever. It is painted as a partisan issue, or "ugh, they always bring race in to this!" Identity politics. Yes, parties use both to their advantage but at its core it goes far deeper and there is an issue here.
Part of the problem is people are not truly communicating about these issues. They talk past each other. No one understands each other. No one has empathy. Put yourself into someone else's shoes. How would you feel otherwise.
Unless you are from a traditionally marginalized minority, or a woman, how can truly know where they are coming from? One can hand-wave it as irrelevant because, if you aren't them it is irrelevant. But, for many years these people have been treated as less than a full citizen and denied the very rights white males take for granted. Do you really think that there is no basis for people of color, women and LGBT people to be annoyed at how things have operated in this country over the past 50 years? It is far from not important. Let's break it down. Within living memory people of a certain color have been:
- Physically separated from whites
- Prohibited from voting via various means
- Prohibited from marrying white people
- Denied basic services due to skin color
- Victims of both illegal and legal violence
Women didn't have the vote until 1920 and are still being told what they can and cannot do with their bodies. If you were treated in this manner, how would you feel? Particularly as it is 2017 and we are still discussing these same things as if they are a matter for debate.
On the other hand:
- White males are being demonized on the spot for being white
- Men in general are falling behind thanks to misguided educational efforts started in the early 80s to even the playing field
Yeah, being dismissed and demonized just because of your skin color and gender sucks. And since about, oh, 2000, this has been the case for white males. It is incredibly frustrating to be told you do not count over something you can't control. It isn't fair. But at least no one is enshrining that bias through legislation.
So, in sum, it appears people are racist, sexist, homophobic assholes. Should we care if people are treated like shit? In all cases yes. Does it make any logical sense to bitch about being treated unfairly due to skin color and gender while at the same time dismissing skin color and gender discrimination as problems? No.
I can know because I speak with them, and can read their opinions as whatever demographic authority they appeal as, even though as they are simply one person of this demographic, it's hard to say they are the authority on the matter.
Don Cheadle is not Mystikal. Lindsay Lohan is not Taylor Swift. I'll do you better: research Lil Wayne's political views and opinions on racism. Or Morgan Freeman. To limit someone's views to the color of their skin or their genitals, is ironically, racist as Fuck and sexist as Fuck.
Telling someone what they can and cannot talk about simply because of their skin or gender is also, racist and sexist as fuck.
I am not the authority on all white males existence, I'm one dude who's seen what I've seen and can study the world around me, just like anyone else
After reading their thoughts, you can compare it to actual data and statistics and decide what is fair and unfair, maybe. Yes there are high profile rates. You can argue they are deserved in some cases. Do I think black people have it as easy as white people? No. I also don't think it's as simple as saying all black people are worse off than all white people. There are black members of this site much better off than most white members. There are difficulties both races and both genders face. We all have opportunity too.
Today is not the the battle of women's suffrage. Slavery is not in existence, the civil rights movement has happened and single motherhood among the black community has increased and the graduation of high school rate is pretty shit. Is the country more racist now than it was in 1960?
It is scary to tell people "but only x years ago, this was life". Yes, it was, and acts have been put into place to even those things (I also had nothing to do with past atrocities, so please put down the pitchfork. I don't live in that world, never have, very triggered millennials haven't either, so they should cool their tits w their pussyhats). Some of them racist,like affirmative action or Harvard's strategies on admittance: an Asian person needs to score 300 higher on sats to be considered equal to a black person.
That's not equality.
If we look back on history, and keep writing in things because history was hard for other genders or races, and things have been evened out, then you're over compensating because things.. have been evened out already.
I was barely conscious in 2000, so my life experience is NOT built upon some age where I was superior. It's built on today, where there are protected groups specifically organized to fight for their groups rights.. except for white males. Wheredoes this ultimately leave the balance if my group is the only one not protected? I get laughed at for voicing opinion on racist, sexist shit from mtv, CNN etc against white males that is egregious and unwarranted. A professor tweeting about white genocide and no one bats an eye.
"Oh poor black people. We don't need to hear from black people. My job is to shut black people up and stop them from interrupting "
"All I want for Xmas is a black genocide". How funny is my satire?
A woman can, and has, chopped a man's dick off and put it in a garbage disposal and it was laughed about by the country. Can you imagine the outrage if a guy cut off his wife's vagina? There'd be riots and the man wouldn't live to see the next day. But I'm deplorable if I don't pay for a woman's meal (even though they make as much money as me..you know how ridiculous it is for a 19 year old guy to buy dinner for a stripper? ...on so many levels?) or do anything to fight back if a woman is violently attacking me.
This isn't 1955 white v black, black person was president of the country until last week, white women have more power than any other demo in the WORLD and can take away and infringe upon my right to my wages for 18 years, because it's her body her choice.
If things are different, then you have to adjust the volume and stop watching some of the channels.
Is the black community ok? No. Why, and what is the cause? What can we do to help? Are women ok? Yea, they probably are ok.
Why don't we stop divisive identity politics and bring the good of the right and the good of the left together in unison rather than competition? Why is there more racial division today, per any race polled, than the was 8 years ago? What happened to the message of unity? Identity politics and constant media coverage of hands up don't shoot etc.
Why don't we just decide shit on policy rather than demagoguery from both sides and all demographics? Stop making everyone in the world that isn't like you evil, and just look at facts and decide the best thing to do about each topic?
