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I'll dig down 3 levels of "why". The endemic anti-intellectualism among white communities (especially rural and southern) has resulted in a steady decline of w
by roncesvalles 7mo ago
I'll dig down 3 levels of "why".
The endemic anti-intellectualism among white communities (especially rural and southern) has resulted in a steady decline of white people in well-paying professions in America. If you count the Jewish as a separate group, white people are likely a minority in corporate America. Combined with social upliftment of other groups ("wokism") and the opioid crisis (that has disproportionately affected hinterland communities but immigrant groups seem immune to), white people are sliding down the American totem pole. Trumpism, alt-right, anti-woke, and the general resurgence of racist rhetoric are basically just reactions to all this.
These people want manufacturing because manufacturing is largely considered a "white people sport". If America becomes a manufacturing-first society, the hope is that it puts white people at the front and center of American society again.
JD Vance wrote a book about this.
- HoldOnAMinute 7mo agoAt my FAANG in Sunnyvale, I often feel like the last white guy on earth. But I don't resent the people who stepped up to fill the jobs. Rather, I am disappointed that these amazing jobs were basically gifted to US residents, but my fellow white people "Opted Out" of these high paying jobs.
- ishouldstayaway 7mo ago> white people are likely a minority in corporate America. Oh boy am I gonna need some actual data for this claim.
- roncesvalles 7mo agoEven if not quite true, it doesn't change my argument since it was more about the rate of change. You can construct the definition of white collar in a way that makes it seem like it's mostly white people, but among high paying job titles within a company, absolutely I would say there are fewer than 50% non-Jewish whites.
- wat10000 7mo agoWhy “non-Jewish”?
- BigTTYGothGF 7mo agoYou know why.
- WarmWash 7mo agoJews are culturally isolated enough to effectively count as their own race. Race is generally a misused concept because 99% of the time people actually mean culture, as anyone from any race can be part of a culture.
- wat10000 7mo agoRight, when people are talking about white people being disproportionately represented (or under-represented) in high paying corporate jobs, they're definitely looking into the cultural background of those people and determining which ones fit "non-Jewish white" rather than looking at the black guy and putting him in the "not white" category based on appearance.... In my experience, you wouldn't know most Jews are Jews unless you start quizzing them about their religious practices.
- kelipso 7mo agoThis doesn’t make sense in light of the fact that we do distinguish between Hispanic and non-Hispanic in addition to white, black, etc.
- wat10000 7mo agoHow so? That's explicitly not considered to be "race," but a separate qualifier on top of it. In any case, nothing here is going to make any sense, because the entire social construct of "race" inherently makes no sense.
- BigTTYGothGF 7mo ago> white people are likely a minority in corporate America. I don't see how this can possibly be true. > that has disproportionately affected hinterland communities but immigrant groups seem immune to Or this, especially in light of data such as this: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db549.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db549.htm
- roncesvalles 7mo agoThe data you linked shows that Native Americans, Blacks and Whites have the highest per capita rates of overdose (in that order), which validates my claim. White American overdose deaths per capita are 6x that of Asian-Americans.