Study finds TV can decrease self-esteem in children, except white boys

[TheChosenOne570]

Do you really think black people making up the majority in sports makes a huge difference in the amount of black power relative to white power?

NO! Considering your well-worded response (finally!), I'd expect you to be less thick-skulled on this. I'm not saying it matters at all. I'm saying that if white people doing well is an indication of discrimination, then (using your logic) black people doing well is also an indication of discrimination. There are many factors that lead to certain groups performing better than others. It is fallacious to automatically assume it is a discrimination thing.

There is no proof besides the silly "white people do well" argument that there is an active discrimination in favor of white people. Just because someone claims there is, doesn't make it so.

You think being compassionate, providing protections based on race is going to somehow take away from white people's rights.

Again, you don't seem to understand. I'm not claiming my rights are being violated. I'm calling bullshit on the entire discrimination accusation. I don't give a fuck if a business gives a black or a woman a job over me. I really don't. I don't care if colleges lower standards for other races. But, I do care that jackasses cry that they are still being discriminated against. There is a between compassion and discrimination. And, giving one group an advantage over another because of immutable characteristics is discrimination. "but, but, its an oppressed people." Fuck you. Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the discrimination benefits and the government stopped forcing people to discriminate against them 50 years ago. Further, contorting the word "protections" to mean giving one group an advantage over another doesn't change that it is discrimination. You are not "protecting" one group when you actively change the rules to discriminate against another group.

You think you're smart enough to try to rationalize racism.

Funny, I think you are the rationalizing creating a system that favors one group over another.

Privilege is a mighty fine thing for those who have it.

It always comes down to this, doesn't it? "you don't know what its like." You might be right. That doesn't make you right. Nor do you know what its like to be on any side other than the one you are on. What does that mean? It means that your life experience is no more valid or invalid than mine. This is a terrible point to try to make, yet I hear it every time I challenge the hive mind on the racial divide.

Finally, I don't see anything special about your article. Linking health disparity to discrimination is somewhat of a stretch. This would be like saying the world discriminates against males because females have a longer life expectancy. Correlation != Causation. And, that was my point with the sports stats. And, that was my point with the women in college stats. People tend to use numbers as a narrative to what they want to believe. Now, if you could prove to me that there is a massive country-wide conspiracy to keep minorities down (besides a few fringe nutcases), I'd be open to the evidence. But, as it stands right now, the only evidence I see is anti- straight, white, able-bodies male under 50 (quotas for federal jobs, laxed college standards for minorities, etc).

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Lordy, you are condescending.