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I think part of the issue is that the pendulum may be swinging too far. Sexist sentiment against men and racist sentiment against whites is growing massively at

I think part of the issue is that the pendulum may be swinging too far. Sexist sentiment against men and racist sentiment against whites is growing massively at a time when whites are soon to be a minority in the country. You say "we are... a generation from a time when not hiring black people or women for jobs... was [standard]..." If this is the case and we truly aren't in a time when this isn't standard anymore, then why should we maintain practices that are discriminatory against whites and men?

scruple 9y ago
> whites are soon to be a minority in the country What is this meme that whites will be a minority in the United States? The Wikipedia article [0] on the demographics of the United States, Race and Ethnicity section, states the following breakdown for US populations: Whites are 63% of the population, Hispanics are 16.3%, African-Americans are 12.2%, Asians are 4.7%, other racial and ethnic groups fall under 1% of the population. Am I missing something here that lends itself to this conclusion that 63% of the population, nearly 200 million people, will "soon become a minority group in the country?" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  One of the political cries of evangelicals is that if we let in muslims, they will outbreed whites. It's a continuation of the European wars of religion, and they're pretending that they never agreed to the Peace of Westphalia which is one of the earliest documented agreements to live in peace with freedom of religion. I'd argue that they want to go to war again, but then someone will just tell me that it was Hillary who wanted to start WW III.
- jaredsohn 9y ago
  I had thought this was more about non-Hispanic whites being less than 50% of the population. More info on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority This is the case for five states right now: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Nevada. That article suggests the whole United States will be majority-minority by 2043 and for children by 2019. (But a critique is that these studies treat somebody with any Hispanic, Asian, or Black ancestry as non-white.)
  - scruple 9y ago
    That's very interesting. Thank you. I had heard the term majority-minority before (around an election cycle, I'm sure) but had never given it much of a read or consideration. I don't have much time to digest the article right now but hope to return to it this evening.

scruple 9y ago

> whites are soon to be a minority in the country What is this meme that whites will be a minority in the United States? The Wikipedia article [0] on the demographics of the United States, Race and Ethnicity section, states the following breakdown for US populations: Whites are 63% of the population, Hispanics are 16.3%, African-Americans are 12.2%, Asians are 4.7%, other racial and ethnic groups fall under 1% of the population. Am I missing something here that lends itself to this conclusion that 63% of the population, nearly 200 million people, will "soon become a minority group in the country?" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

unityByFreedom 9y ago
One of the political cries of evangelicals is that if we let in muslims, they will outbreed whites. It's a continuation of the European wars of religion, and they're pretending that they never agreed to the Peace of Westphalia which is one of the earliest documented agreements to live in peace with freedom of religion. I'd argue that they want to go to war again, but then someone will just tell me that it was Hillary who wanted to start WW III.
jaredsohn 9y ago
I had thought this was more about non-Hispanic whites being less than 50% of the population. More info on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority This is the case for five states right now: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Nevada. That article suggests the whole United States will be majority-minority by 2043 and for children by 2019. (But a critique is that these studies treat somebody with any Hispanic, Asian, or Black ancestry as non-white.)
- scruple 9y ago
  That's very interesting. Thank you. I had heard the term majority-minority before (around an election cycle, I'm sure) but had never given it much of a read or consideration. I don't have much time to digest the article right now but hope to return to it this evening.