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Oh i wasnt sure if it was something from somewhere else. Are you and the top level comment saying that rural/midwestern poor white americans are competing for
by unprepare 10y ago
Oh i wasnt sure if it was something from somewhere else.
Are you and the top level comment saying that rural/midwestern poor white americans are competing for jobs against wealthy black americans? I'm just trying to understand what this sentiment means, not trying to be combative or anything
- leereeves 10y agoI was just repeating the comment, you'd have to ask the author. Speaking for myself, I'd discuss things like affirmative action in college admissions, whose advocates would admit a wealthy black person from a prep school before a poor white person from a failing rural school who has better test scores, and call that "social justice".
- 7Z7 10y ago>I was just repeating the comment, you'd have to ask the author. But you are repeating and justifying this comment up and down the thread.
- leereeves 10y agoAs part of the broader discussion of identity politics. I can't speak to exactly what the original author of the remark meant by those words specifically.