white lives matter

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[–]Akali 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"you've had more opportunities than blacks who are at a similar economic level to you" Base on what evidence? The problem with that rethoric is that it is baseless. Anytime you run a regression on wage base on Geolocalisation, education, gender, ethnicity, personality treats such as asertiveness, age, hours work per weeks, social circle size, whether or not the parent are still together, IQ, presence of mental illness or not, presence of physical disease and any other factors. When you correct the linear regression for auto correlation, heteroskedasticity and functional form, you end up seeing that both Gender and Ethnicity are not significative with p-value above 0.2.

You could argue success isn't just wage, but ethnicity has nothing to do with it and nor does gender.

I cannot provide you with the data I use because I'd be breaching the confidenciality agreement of my workplace so I won't try to convince you of it, but I have yet to see any evidence of systemic racism.

In fact, the only systemic racism there might be is affirmative action because it is base on skin color instead of poverty level.

[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It must be exhausting for socks to be fighting this war on two fronts against actual 'racialists' as well as folks who see ethnic minorities as fellow citizens rather than as favoured pets.

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Yes, affirmative action is referred to "reverse racism" in the US and "positive racism" in the UK. It's being retired at universities, and perhaps elsewhere, and being replaced with 'diversity' programs, training, and hiring programs that include a broader range of underrepresented people. This is still "reverse racism", but it's supposed to offer people with less privilege an equal platform for competing with people with more privilege for jobs. The "wage base on geolocalisation, education, gender, ethnicity" should include typical wages for the majority of underrepresented people, or specifically for the lowest wage groups, such as blacks and whites who earn less than $25k/year, in contrast to their counterparts who earn more. My main point is that - though I am a victim of affirmative action, and don't like it - I also appreciate that, for the past 20 years, white people like me have been in positions of privilage and the diversification of people in jobs in our areas has improved the social presence and outlook of the places where we've worked. Metropolitan communities have thrived like this. I am concerned, however, that those who get the affirmative action jobs should still be required to meet the same goals of the others, or should be fired.