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Saying "white men can take it" is not the moral high-ground you think it is.
by lliamander 5y ago
Saying "white men can take it" is not the moral high-ground you think it is.
- baryphonic 5y agoI just looked up the suicide rates, and holy cow.[0] How many additional white men have taken their own lives because they are assumed to be able to "handle put-downs?" [0]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017...
- anigbrowl 5y agoDo not put your words in my mouth, please. You got a good faith reply, which you are misrepresenting. It was you that switched the context to 'white men in the bay area' in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lliamander 5y agoI really don't see how your comment does not imply the meaning I took from it. You said that white men (due to their "high social and economic status" as a group) would not be impacted much by a negative generalization. In other words, as I put it, "they can take it". Now, if I've misunderstood something substantive about your argument I am open to correction. With regard to how I phrased your argument, the whole point was to make it clear why I don't find your argument convincing.