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Biophilic

(3,714 posts)
2. Hey, they know a slippery slop when they see it.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 09:50 AM
Apr 27

They aren't stupid, just greedy and evil. After all, they are "made" in god's image. Personally, I think their personalities may be similar also. Totally capricious and self centered.

Sky Jewels

(7,184 posts)
5. Funny how the male god that males made up
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:33 AM
Apr 27

is such a cruel dickhead. I wouldn’t worship that monster even if it actually existed. .

erronis

(15,393 posts)
10. I'll take issue with "They aren't stupid, ..."
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 11:47 AM
Apr 27

Having in-born privilege does not hone the intellect like having to think on your feet, think as if your very life depends on it.

Assuming that white men are only considered properly "White" then there's a much more limited genetic pool to help offset mutations that creep into insular populations. Remember that Italian-, Spanish-, Eastern-European-, Irish-, and perhaps French- descent peoples aren't sufficiently "White".

usonian

(9,920 posts)
4. I grew up in the Civil Rights Era
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:05 AM
Apr 27

and I'm a stronger advocate of Civil Rights now than I was then.

I was 3 points shy of a major in math, but I can assure you that blanket statements are baloney.

Long live the seniors here on DU and all over this land fighting for equality, dignity and fairness for all.

And D.E.I.

Farmer-Rick

(10,219 posts)
6. Some white men
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:48 AM
Apr 27

Are afraid they can't compete on a fair playing field.

You think Trump would have been president without white male privilege....and Russian money.

haele

(12,686 posts)
11. Some white men know they can't compete on a fair playing field.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 12:06 PM
Apr 27

Yes, I know thinking work can be as hard as physical work - I've done both - but I know too many people who will want to equate acquisition of wealth with virtue or hard work. Especially if the majority of people they see that have acquired wealth or power "look like them", while most of the poor folks look like others.
The norm when it comes to a stereotype of the top of the social hierarchy is a older, white male who is a wealthier member of the status quo. A lot of white men feel that's their position to 'work' towards in life; to be a Big Fish in their own pond. That's their rightful inheritance. Everyone else has their own normative place; women are mommies to take care of their emotional needs, darker people are tools; the fungible servants, artisans, physical laborers that appear when needed and just disappear after they aren't needed, and, of course, any children are proof of manhood, mini-mes to mold into whatever the pater familias wants them to be.

It's a sad, narrow existence that creates confusion and resentment, especially among the less wealthy white males who fret that they're somehow being cheated. Not to mention the wealthy white males who continue to lie to themselves about how much they had to "sacrifice" to have millions in their personal accounts by the time they were 35 or 40.
Most couldn't have gotten where they were without a lot of help from family (revenue sharing from a family business, education support, or inherited wealth), the Government (low cost training/educational support, training or bonuses/benefits from prior military service, loans and grants), or some other form of network investing in them in the first place.

Haele

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
8. If you are offended at efforts to promote non-discrimination,
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:50 AM
Apr 27

it is inevitable that you are benefitting from that discrimination.

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