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its called the oppression olympics and im just saying poor people win at least bronze in most events

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1865029)

This is true, but white privilege in America (that's what we're talking about, right?) means that your parents are more likely to be well off if you're white because white people have not had centuries of racism keeping their parents and their parents before them from getting to a good financial place that their children could expound on.

OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS WHAT WHITE PRIVILEGED IS.

I've tried to have this discussion with my friend allll the time because white people never want to accept that white privilege exists because they think it means they automatically will have a better life when in reality it means that statistically they are more likely to have a better life because of their skin. I never saw it as a way to make excuses or guilt trip white people (though it is used that way) but just as a reality that needs to be addressed and acknowledged so it can change.

You don't get to pick between "middle class and black" and "white and poor", though. Odds are overwhelmingly that if you're black, you're also poor. That's the way history and sociopolitical institutions have stacked the deck.

Our ****ty us vs them political environment seems hopeless right now. But we have gone through some extremely radical social changes with in the last 100 years. So **** will probably get better unless Trump destroys us all.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1865017)

It actually is though, it's more than just income that makes people of a different skin color have a different experience in life.

Good luck picking being a suburban middle class black kid, you will constantly have to experience being prejudiced against on many levels. You get into a good school and people will only assume that you were there because of your skin color and not your own merit. You will get pulled up significantly more because of your skin color. Assumptions will be made about you and people will view you as a threat just because of your skin color.

The phrase "boiling everything down to race" is similar to those that always complain about "why others are race baiting" or feel like we live in a post racial world just because Obama was president. It doesn't work that way. Prejudice in the general population seeps into every aspect of life from education, to the prison system, to the work force etc.

I would take the poor white trailer park kid and not have to worry about simple **** like playing Pokemon Go in certain areas and having people be suspicious of you for it. Getting the benefit of the doubt of being non threatening is a great thing and I have no idea why you would want to give that up.

None of this post supports your claim about inherent differences. Having a different experience in life has absolutely nothing to do with the inherent characteristics of race and everything to do with social structure. There are no inherent differences between races that set them up for harder lives, their hardships arise from systematic oppression and culture. I'm pretty sure you'd agree with this, but your argument is more representative of being an oppressed minority in X society and not so appropriate for arguing inherent racial differences.

Inherent differences could be shown if, given an unbiased equal society, black people somehow still had more difficult lives than other races.

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1865626)

We aren't talking about a hypothetical uptopia. We are talking within the confines of this current society.

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1865626)

But these points

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1865640)

I don't care what your points are

^Pretty much. Ill give it one more try though.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1865640)

We aren't talking about a hypothetical uptopia. We are talking within the confines of this current society.

Yes i understand that and my point is the things you describe are an inherent quality of american society NOT black people, but if you wanna give ammo to all the white supremicists arguing that blacks are inferior than by all means keep ignoring my point. The framing of your argument is counter productive.

I went back and read both your posts and I think you're both making more or less the same point. I can't see where Deej ever said that black people are genetically predisposed to racism or whatever it is you're trying to argue against here.

He has said a number of times that you can't take class or income out of the equation, but that also means you can't isolate class or income as factors affecting discrimination/prejudice/poverty over and above race. They're all tied together in a way that can't be parsed apart, 'cuz history.

I think all that's happened is that DJ misread a post made by Qwertyy a couple pages ago saying that life isn't inherently more difficult because of your skin colour. That's what Dwn is trying to point out.