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You should separate them because an unemployed white guy living in a trailer park with his friends and family dying to opioids is just as disadvantaged as an un
by somedude895 4y ago
You should separate them because an unemployed white guy living in a trailer park with his friends and family dying to opioids is just as disadvantaged as an unemployed black guy living in a city and much more so than an urban black female college grad struggling to break the "glass ceiling."
- jfengel 4y agoBut they're disadvantaged differently, and treating them as the same because you've decided that they're "equally disadvantaged" according to some metric you've chosen. Systemic discrimination happens on top of all of the other problems that people have just for being human. We should devote some resources to those issues. That doesn't mean dismissing the guy dying of opioids, but it does feel awfully uncomfortable for people to be saying "Let's stop looking at the racism that has afflicted this country for centuries because now I've identified a problem that affects mostly white people."