(07-11-2023, 12:16 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-11-2023, 12:08 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: And knowing all this your take is that a little discrimination because of the collective guilt of white people today is juuuust fine.

He didn't say discrimination is fine.
He said that the magnitude of discrimination that whites face is substantially less severe than what Black people face, whether you're comparing them today or 100 years ago.
And he's right.

I'm not saying it isn't, I'm saying we're gearing up to have it go the other way in the next hundred years. And that's because folks like him are saying that complaints about encroaching discrimination are "laughable." Because those white people deserve it for all they've done for the last 400 years. Except that it wasn't those white people. And they didn't do it. But collectively their whiteness makes them guilty and deserving of it.  But that's just babble to some folks.

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(07-11-2023, 02:05 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Back to my other point, there is a problem with whites feeling marginalized. It's like there's a zero-sum game attached to this argument on the left. "Someone needs to feel marginalized... it's time you guys paid your dues." That's [BLEEP] logic. Again, that's not referencing any particular poster here, but rather a certain mindset that is present among some on the left. I am all about closing the gap and generating opportunity. That representation will not be equal across the board. There's no reason it can't be that way, but you don't need to take from one to give to the other. The one exception I make is for the elites. Start capping their wealth and you will see more opportunities arise for everyone else.

More like "White people in your great grandparents' time were bad so you have to pay for it."

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