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Originally Posted by asshat
Individual white guys face the same problems as everyone,sure, I'm just saying that anyone who argues that they face institutional discrimination is off their rocker.(apart from Zimbabwe and south africa)
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uh, you know I'm not sure how I feel about that. Because while people have general attitudes towards groups, they rarely translate to a direct individual unless you only know them as a part of that group.
i.e. I know bill's black, but I don't know bill.
I used to speak to a guy from Texas and we got onto the subject of how homosexuals were taken down there in Dixie. He said to me "you know I'm sure they don't like *** people, but if they'd met a *** guy, they'd probably like him just fine. You know 'i hate ***s, but jim's cool'"
That being said, there are many hurdles people face that aren't race related, but could be seen as inhibiting as racism - its just not as ugly a mark on society as racism is. I routinely reject overqualified people when I'm hiring because they tend to fly the coup in 6 months time.
People would find that reasonable. But I don't think its any less daunting a hurdle to overcome. If people don't like you - for whatever reason it is - you still need to find a way to get around that.
Racism I think has been perceived as something thats constant and ubiquitus. I don't think thats true but what do I know? Thats just my 2 cents from my own experience.