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This is the problem with using averages to compare people. You can't take all the poor whites, all the middle class whites, and all the rich whites and dump the

This is the problem with using averages to compare people. You can't take all the poor whites, all the middle class whites, and all the rich whites and dump their incomes into a spreadsheet and average it out and say "White Privilege" like the media has done for 7 years now. All the major new outlets from BBC, ABC, CNN, to MSNBC, CBS, and PBS have run stories that basically ask us to look away from "The Poor" and only look towards "The Minority Poor". The same way "black lives matter" asked us to look away from all the people killed by militant police and only pay attention to blacks killed by police. I find the same people preaching "unity" are the ones that are separating and dividing. When you analyze ethnic or racial groups you need to split up the members of that group into sub-groups to really know what's going on. We need to focus on real social science and not extremist media narratives.

pessimizer 10y ago
I think that one of the reasons for this is that many poor whites don't seem to stand up for themselves in any other way than attacking other disadvantaged groups, from racial and sexual minorities to retired people on government pensions. This is of course not the case for all working class and poor whites, many of whom support movements for the minority poor and minorities killed by police, and don't see attention given to minority problems as attention taken away from white problems.
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- dsfyu404ed 10y ago
  People bitch about groups of people they have little in common with. The urban poor bitch about the wealthy and the rural poor. The rural poor bitch about the wealthy and the urban poor. The wealthy bitch about the poor. None of those groups are actually bitching about skin color, just using it as a crude grouping mechanism for people that are unlike them.
ihaveahadron 10y ago
Oh you mean it's better to factor in elementary arithmetic and English into things. ??????

pessimizer 10y ago

I think that one of the reasons for this is that many poor whites don't seem to stand up for themselves in any other way than attacking other disadvantaged groups, from racial and sexual minorities to retired people on government pensions. This is of course not the case for all working class and poor whites, many of whom support movements for the minority poor and minorities killed by police, and don't see attention given to minority problems as attention taken away from white problems.

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dsfyu404ed 10y ago
People bitch about groups of people they have little in common with. The urban poor bitch about the wealthy and the rural poor. The rural poor bitch about the wealthy and the urban poor. The wealthy bitch about the poor. None of those groups are actually bitching about skin color, just using it as a crude grouping mechanism for people that are unlike them.

ihaveahadron 10y ago

Oh you mean it's better to factor in elementary arithmetic and English into things. ??????