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> As an introverted white guy who lives in a foreign country, I feel that I am being discriminated against all the time. This is, literally, what it feels like

by yardie 10y ago

> As an introverted white guy who lives in a foreign country, I feel that I am being discriminated against all the time. This is, literally, what it feels like to be a minority in the US and most European countries. Everything about you is questionable, you get slighted all the time, and you're the representative of an entire ethnicity. So whatever you do or opinions you hold are representative of the entire group.

coldtea 10y ago
Except if you make it to "fame/success status". Then you can use the minority card all the time in your favour.
- kweinber 10y ago
  Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)? I'm pretty sure their public removal was a little harsher and unfair without a so-called minority card to play.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? No, kind of like in 2016. >What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)? What about them? I've talked about famous people.
- yardie 10y ago
  More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages. Chris Rock pointed out that in being a black actor he is not allowed to make a bad/questionable movie. He makes one bad film and and all of black Hollywood is out of work for a year.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages. I think if you're famous/succesful, the minority/victim card can be played to your advantage too. If you're a poor/unknown minority, nobody gives a fuck. The same way few care or write indignant posts for sex trafficking victims or exploited immigrant people, but if some minority member at some $1000/person conference hears something they that hurts their feelings, it warrants a small media/social-media storm. It's the upper middle class minority version of "white people's problems".

by yardie 10y ago

coldtea 10y ago

Except if you make it to "fame/success status". Then you can use the minority card all the time in your favour.

kweinber 10y ago
Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)? I'm pretty sure their public removal was a little harsher and unfair without a so-called minority card to play.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.? No, kind of like in 2016. >What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)? What about them? I've talked about famous people.
yardie 10y ago
More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages. Chris Rock pointed out that in being a black actor he is not allowed to make a bad/questionable movie. He makes one bad film and and all of black Hollywood is out of work for a year.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages. I think if you're famous/succesful, the minority/victim card can be played to your advantage too. If you're a poor/unknown minority, nobody gives a fuck. The same way few care or write indignant posts for sex trafficking victims or exploited immigrant people, but if some minority member at some $1000/person conference hears something they that hurts their feelings, it warrants a small media/social-media storm. It's the upper middle class minority version of "white people's problems".