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There's a fair bit of talk in some of my circles that all of this is a divide and conquer strategy by very wealthy people trying to make sure that people in the
by JPKab 5y ago
There's a fair bit of talk in some of my circles that all of this is a divide and conquer strategy by very wealthy people trying to make sure that people in the working classes stay divided based on race.
The reality of this is that really really crappy people exist in all racial categories and they do really crappy things to other people especially if they are different than them. These crappy people are a minority of any race but too often we talk about it as if they are majority of any given race.
If we would stop talking about race and start focusing on class then the less affluent Asians wouldn't get turned down from colleges because they are lumped in with the affluent suburban Asians. The white kids from the trailer parks in Eastern Kentucky wouldn't get turned down because they are lumped in with the rich white kids at Sidwell Friends School.
I'm only saying all this because I recently had the wonderful experience of getting lectured on equity by a CEO making over a hundred times more than the average employee at my former company. The fact that it works so well was the worst part about it. The employees were going after each other over their skin color and ancestral guilt / victimhood and completely ignoring the fact that this useless CEO isn't worth three programmers let alone a hundred of them.
- idrios 5y agoOf all the comments in this very sensitive thread, this is the one I hope people see. I've noticed there are a number of divides like this.. minorities vs racists, women vs misogynists, foreigners vs xenophobes, millennials vs boomers, and trust vs distrust in technology/science. This list matches the fact that the labor pool is currently being diluted with increased participation of minorities and women in the workforce, outsourcing of jobs or immigration labor, an older generation that hasn't yet retired, and automation of labor. It follows suit that a young white male with a poor education might have an extremely difficult time entering the job market. This person is the most likely to look at his dismal situation and place blame on these demographics that he's in competition with. Ideally, instead he would see them as his peers, that each of these demographics would see him as a peer, and that they would see each other as peers. But I imagine there are those at the top who do not want the finger pointed at them, and so are happy to reinforce people's existing biases
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- JPKab 5y agoThe fact that this rather innocuous, totally uncontroversial statement is being downvoted is a pretty sad testament to this ideology and it's adherents.