(07-10-2023, 11:57 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

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

So, in short, now that white people are less of a majority in America it's perfectly fine to discriminate against them because (some of) their ancestors did bad things that every other racial group across the globe did at one time or another. Because discrimination now isn't as bad as the discrimination of the past; or, 2 wrongs make a right for some people.

No. 
Not at all. 

It's basically just "Hello, complaining white people, welcome to the reality everyone else has dealt with forever." 

Everyone gets discriminated against every day in some way. White folks have just been accustomed to a lot less of it. 
Now they are getting a tiny dose. 

It isn't going to magically go away. Blacks are still discriminated against despite affirmative action efforts. My next door neighbor still calls Mexican people "lazy criminals." We are just reaching a time when previously non-minority groups are getting a taste of it too. 

Big whoop. 

I recommend pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and just rising above it.

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