Our society has seemed to write off the White Guy in television, radio, and magazine advertising. With all of the so called deversifying, White Guys are used as racist scapegoats as a ploy to promote other male races. Our society has weakened the white race in order to strengthen other races of color. While many see this as ok, the White race is pissed off. This has in fact recreated hatred and racism based on an uneven playing field. White people were not brought up to have things handed to them without being deserving of them. White people also resent other races that have benifited from this process of affirmative action. Comments welcome.
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Do I count? I'm really really white.
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Two points:\n1. It is a misconception that the USA is a world leader on equality. The USA is ranked 23rd in the world concerning women's rights.\n2. This country is a country based and founded on bigotry... I don't foresee a female leader in my lifetime. (Case in point: look at the ignorance of your first answerer to this question)\n\nWhite males don't understand because they, quite frankly, are the less intelligent gender... that's my theory; but moreover, they don't want to 'think' about it.\n\nMany studies have shown, and this is where Affirmative Action came from, the reason you need those programs is:\n1. THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB DOES NOT get hired. \n2. When one race or gender is oppressed, the result is only a few of that race and gender being able to compete with the oppresser.\n\n#2 is what white males don't like to hear. It is a fact. Take for example that less than 100 years ago a woman didn't have the right to vote nor could she attend college.\n\nAnd these morons want to say ...'let the best person for the job get the job...' Many studies have also shown that it is human nature on a subconscious level to discriminate. Some ppl don't set out to do it on purpose but it is in the works of our brains.\n\nIt's like this: say a married white male age 40 with 3 kids is conducting job interviews. That person, without thinking about it, will tend to just 'like' or prefer white males around his age that also have a family. This happens on the subconscious level. \n\nCorrection of this does not occur until the person doing the hiring makes a 'conscious' effort to think about hiring a minority... that is where Affirmative Action comes into play and why it is very much needed.\n\nBtw, some argue that minorities do the same thing when they are put into hiring positiions. While this is true on the subconcious level, studies have shown it occurs much much less often due to the fact minorities tend to be consciously aware and more accepting of diversity.
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Oh, thank you. I'm so glad this ticks other people off, too. I'd like to smack the next person I hear use the term "reverse racism". Racism is racism regardless of the color of the person experiencing discrimination. And I believe that white people are really getting the short end of the stick. \n\n(I don't appriciate the term Caucasian - it means white people from the Meditterranian - with dark hair and eyes, an olive complection and oval eyes - but whites are all grouped together, and since "black" isn't PC, then they don't want to say "white", and you can't say European, because not all whites are from Europe.)\n\nWhen I went to college, I had a 3.8 GPA, I was in clubs and activities (even founded my school's debate club), I volunteered in community service, and had been a foreign exchange student. My mother was a widow with two younger children still in the home, and an income under $20,000 a year. And I wasn't eligable for anything. A few thousand dollars for educational grants, a dozen $50-$500 scholarships that I had spent a whole year applying for with every group I could find. (I worked in the Financial Aid office, I had govt. loans - bbut we're taking scholarships and grants now.) It was a drop in the bucket of a $17,000/year tuition. \n\nI think it comes from the racist belief that all white people are rich. \n\nEver since I started taking the PSATs in 9th grade, there have been boxes to check off. If you're even 1/8 Black, Hispanic, Native American or anything else they'll send you forms to get scholarships. There are "black" collages, latino fraternities, scholarships based on races other than white.\n\nThen you get older and you start checking "decline" on job application race questions, because companies that have government regulations imposed on them will hire a slightly inferior "minority" before a fully qualified white.\n\nThen it goes higher up. The state of Illinois just got pressured into awarding billions of dollars to just a handful of communities because their elected representatives bound together on race lines. The long-debated budget was up for a final vote, when the hispanic representatives stood up and announced that, unless the money was given to those couple of neighborhoods (who's officials were hispanic), then ALL of the hispanic representitives would withhold their votes, and the budget (which didn't include those billions of dollars) wouldn't pass.\n\nWhites could never do that. We'd be torn to threads. The public wouldn't stand for any of it. The politicians would be ousted. Just like a college claiming to be "white" would be forced to admit minorities, as would white fraternities. And could you imagine a white pride day? Or a European Day parade?\n\nBut if this racism continues, and I ever become rich, I plan to start the United White College Fund. Look for us in 20 years and make a donation.
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I totally agree.  I always say this but you have to be careful who you say it too because they'll think ur racist.  im not racist in the least. in fact, i took a black women's histor class last year at the university level and the whole year was devoted to talking about how bad the 'white man' is and i had to sit there and take it.  i think we should stop being persicuted for what happened to their ancestors.  Noone alive today was either a slave OR a slave owner so the sympathy card should stop being played.  white people can't blame their downfalls on anyone but in the opposite case, its always okay to blame white people for anything that goes wrong. I think its about time to give it a rest because the sooner we get rid of the double standard, the sooner we can get rid of racism too.
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Because the problem is that white is the norm or the standard. Everyone else is alienated. There is no need to specify the 'white community' because everything is about the white community until otherwise specified. If you really want to answer this question for yourself and broaden your horizons, pay attention. There really is merit to what we (as in the black and hispanic community) have been trying to get trough to y'all.
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I agree with you. There shouldn't be special clubs/groups or special weeks for certain races because it segragates them as being different. We should all be seen as just people, not as 'white man' black man' etc.
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Black people today are not feeling the effects of what happened during their Grandfathers era.  There are more social programs from minorities than there are for White Men.  Black have more opportunity for advancement and more opportunity to attend college than most white people.  Look at the scholarships available today, most are for minorities or gays.  I am not holding the Black Man down, I do not owe anybody anything.  There is no free lunch, go out and work and make yourself better.  Don't expect me to help, but I won't stand in your way neither.
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Do you think that there's more or less dislike or distain for white women in interractial relationships?  Or black men?  Or any other gender/race combination?\n\nRacism is commonplace, although a lot of people try to fool themselves into thinking it's not.  Also, there is no such thing as "reverse racism".  Blacks or mexicans hating you for trying to date their family member is the same flavor of racism as in any other case.\n\nBelieve it or not, everyone has the right to like or hate anyone else for any reason.  It's infuriating to see racism so drastically villified, when in fact it is the rule...not the exception.  Since when did the Thought Police start trying to tell us how we can feel towards others?\n\nWe are not this wonderfully open and accepting society that talk show shrinks like to make us out to be.  Many, many families do NOT want to see their family members date outside their race.  That is simply their cultural perspective, and it is not open to debate or judgement by others....whether the family is white, black, mexican, or any other race.
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Some would call us Crackers.\n\nUs white folk feel entitled to automatic success because our white guy fore-fathers built this country politically and financially.  We don't try to learn about other races because we don't have to associate with them to make money.  We also don't like other cultures because we are afraid they will 'steal' our legacy.  It becames a self full-filling prophecy that is taught to the next generation of whities.\n\nTwo more notes:\nI don't think they are lazy, they just have never been exposed to other cultures and are confused about how to fit in.  When in doubt, people give up - because it is better to cling to your closed off world than look foolish.\n\nEveryone is looking to fit into a group.  And generally what you learned in high school applies.  Groups put down other groups and peer pressure is relentless.
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Racism isn't mutually exclusive. Often its other issues that motivate criticism and violence. How many times have you seen the victim of hate or violence by one man take it out on an entire race of human beings. This happens ever day.
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It's the 'cowards' as you put it that currently have them trussed up like a turkey and spending everyday in a horrible jail cell.  Then they'll be put to death.  Nothing nice about that, quite bad in fact.  I should point out that when you refer to people as 'white man' you shouldn't be upset at anyone calling you a name based on your colour, whatever it is.  You're clearly trying to wind people up with a badly written jibe, but all you're really doing is making yourself look like a useless fag got that fantasises over men and what you imagine they are like all day.
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it's a paradox in its nature... \nThey are asking for equality while placing emphasis on our differences.\nbut two things we should get rid of.... Affirmative Action and Indefinite welfare \n\nThe initial reasons for the organizations were valid but have grown wild sense.\n\n\n\nanother thing that annoyes me is that I  blacks for example feed the idea of discrimination so much that you start to believe that they are different.\n\nDo they think it's good that they constantly point out our differences.\n\nIf were equal then should they just shut up already....\nthey've been nagging for decades.\n\n\nback to you question.... the singling out of races for special programs does discriminate again whites and again does point out to the point that they are different ( if we were equal then we would have no special affiliations and programs)\n\nWhites don't get to be represented in this way\n\nand what about BET television \nWhat about WET\na common argument is that "oh tv is already for whites"\nwell we didn't come out like racist and flat out create our own station, what hypocrits.... ...it's reasons like this that we never will be thought of as equals.... and again, it's in part their fault for fueling the fire.\n\n\njust makes no sense.\n\n\nit's discriminatory and a bunch of BS
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People do what the TV tells them to. This includes being offended. It is fine in America to make fun of straight white men. You can tell jokes at the expense of Catholics, Protestants, and even sometimes Jews. Italians and Irish are ok to pick on. It seems that even Indians (from India) can sometimes be mocked. White hip hoppers....they are open game. \n\nIt is because the media or some huge personality hasn't come against it and said with conviction, "It is wrong to make fun of these people."
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i think that's stupid as hell how one race would get mad because someone of their own race is dating someone of another race.. honestly it's none of their buisness. Society today is too nosey in other people's buisness. They should worry about their selfs.
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Anything that perpetuates the demand from our society for all white males to feel guilty for something they had no part in is  wrong. I haven't been discriminatory towards anyone, unless they are just plain ignorant, and I should be discriminated against by anyone either.\n\nAffirmative action was needed up to about fifteen years ago, but it is time for either a phase out plan or complete stoppage.
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I think it's similar to "race discrimination" it's only the whites that do it.\n\nhttp://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com/
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There is no reason for that except society's insecurities. I am talking about all around, because while I totally agree with you, I get called a cracker way too much... Would be nice for all stereotypes to dissapear because an upstanding black guy and an upstanding white guy, are both good enough to have the respect of others.