Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:"a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group."I assure you I have no special rights, advantages, or immunities in spite of being a "privileged white male". Do you know why? Because I'm fucking poor, and the poor don't matter in this country. You really think this is about race or sex? You're delusional. That's a lie the Democrats have been cooking up for decades so they don't have address the actual inequality problem in this country because they benefit from the status quo just as much as the GOP does. Where the GOP tries to push some nonsense about how there is no discrimination or inequality and that everyone who is poor just isn't working hard enough, the Dems prefer to appeal to the progressive and minority votes by claiming it's racial, sexual, or orientational because that gets them more votes.
The truth is it hasn't been about race, sex, or orientation for quite a few decades now. That wasn't the case in the 60s or earlier, but it is the case now. The only thing that matters now is the status of your wealth; anything else comes secondary or is completely trivial. A poor, white man is just as likely to struggle in America as any other poor person of any demographic. That's all that matters now: keeping us filthy poors in our place.
Yes, there is a correlation between white men and privilege because most rich folk in the country are white men who've had two centuries to build that wealth without any impediments because of their race or sex. Surprise, surprise men make up half the country and whites are over 70% of our population while having zero history of discrimination by the government. It's a no-brainer then that only 3-4 decades after the end of the major civil rights movements that the statistics have changed very little, but that has nothing to do with racism or any "privilege" by white men but because America's wealthy elite and Corporate America have been running this country since Reagan opened the doors for them to do so and they've been deliberately working hard to keep the poor in poverty and the rich wealthy while also destroying the middle class in order to expand poverty so they can have more
slaves workers to abuse and manipulate.
Seeing as there weren't very many rich non-whites/women before the 80s (at least not compared to rich white men) it's no surprise then that there still aren't that many today what with wages remaining stagnant since the 70s, workers' rights being curtailed, and megacorps being allowed to operate with impunity while the rich funnel money into their chosen political candidate's pockets in order to secure their loyalty. It's hard to advance in status when you're deliberately being kept in the dirt.
Just about every issue with race and sex in America today is less about race and sex and more about class. Very few people legitimately care if you're white and male or not. But they care quite a bit if you're a filthy working-class poor. See according to our elite overlords the poor are nothing but criminals and welfare leeches that want free stuff and vote Blue because they like Socialism, or some other insipid nonsense.
This is America. For the Rich, by the Rich, with the Rich.
But the rest us? We don't matter.
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:01 pm