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willbeurdaddy -> RE: James Webb: Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege (7/24/2010 3:40:36 PM)
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wow, what a rant.
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
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This thread saddens me....
You know what? For those of you that don't believe in racism in this society addressing a non-existent audience? At least Ive never seen a claim to that effect
need to have been emailed by the bigoted bastards that live in Orange County and in the Santa Barbara area who get nasty with me when they find out what I do... what do you do?
Most of the white men in my age group are a buncha whiny-assed bigoted bastards. Fuck them. White people tend to get their sphincter muscles clinched when they have to deal with the idea that their privilege is coming to an end. This is my experience with many white people I know in general outside of my academic career. It is true of my racist brothers, uncles, and other assorted relatives.
Beyond the fact that racism and sexism is a prevalent problem this country, it is not just an individual problem, it is a structural one. Why do women have to spend more on medical insurance,because they can have babies
why are the diseases that impact us not funded? like what?
Why are medical studies performed on men as if they are the same as women? I think you put this backwards, but again, like what?
Why are diseases that impact minority communities not studied as much as the ones that impact white men? what diseases impact white men disprortionatel to minority men?
Why are minority populations impacted by industrial pollution more than white ones? data?
This is just a partial list of the inequalities within the structure of our society...
I get that there are some very racist people in this country, and yes that is a problem that we still need to address, but the more insidious problem is those who truly think that racism doesn't keep people down because of the "gains" we have made, and we have become a more tolerant country, a better country, but thinking we have come far enough just isn't true, and people can be blind to the structural forms of racism, but that means they are tolerating it.
Here is a question for all of you, why do we have "Black History Month"? Black history is all of our history, it should be taught all year long.It is taught all year long, as part of "all our history"
I think that in our belief that we are "doing enough" to make this a country without racism, in some ways we are giving this false impression we have gotten places we haven't because we "gave" them their own Martin Luther King Jr Day and we gave them their Caesar Chavez Day and we "gave" them an entire month... and that is really fucking pathetic in my mind... how about we give all people equal consideration all year long the vast majority of us do. because the vast majority of people in the past did not is no excuse to discriminate against their descendants.
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