(07-10-2023, 10:40 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(07-09-2023, 08:51 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: The thing is? It doesn’t bother me a bit and I'd totally wear that shirt. So would I be seen as good natured or a Klansman if I did?

You know the answer.

Meanwhile, since you appear to be in the 2 Wrongs Make It Right camp, I'll take my Irish Reparations now thanks.

Were Irish Americans being strung up in trees for being Irish in the mid-sixties? I may have missed that. 

The point I'm making is that the racial makeup and proportions of the country (and globe) are ever changing and we are becoming more and more homogenized.  
We are nearing a place when the benefits and opportunities being created for certain minorities won't make sense anymore. (I can't wait personally - just so white ppl will stop whining about it)
 Over the next 20 years we'll see that level off. I'd bet heavily on it. 

What comes hand in hand with that change - is that white Americans are no longer going to face the same golden-paved road to easy success in life because they will be on a more level playing field with minorities who previously had a tougher time getting there. Yeah, I know folks like to deny this dynamic EVER existed and white folks have always just pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, but that's a load of crap. Plenty of folks pulled themselves up as far as they could by those straps only to be denied access to opportunity. 

Thankfully - We are in a different time than the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. 
The youth of this nation are more diverse than ever and they largely aren't looking for a free lunch. 
They'll compete on a more level playing field than ever before and those who take advantage of their opportunities will succeed. 
Part of this new landscape is a bunch of butt-hurt white people who lament the loss of privilege. 
They'll just have to get over it. 

Ooh yeah - and to address your 2 wrongs quip:
Are you seriously trying to compare the whining of a modern white guy feeling discriminated against to the struggles of African Americans over the last century?  
That may be two "wrongs" but it's like comparing murder to shoplifting.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."