Strawman.while minorities and women face discrimination, that does not cancel out the discrimination of everyone else. — sarah young
We have always worked, and still do work, against those who have always worked, and still do work, "towards superiority". This sort of special pleading stinks of "victim envy". Compared to the grossly ubiquitous normativity of systemic discrimination against nonwhite, female & nonbinary persons, incidents of anti-'straight white male' discrimination are de minimis and, more significantly, not systemic (after all 'the system' is, in fact, controlled by 'straight white male' elites predominately for the benefit of 'straight white male' elites ...)We should work towards equality, not towards superiority.
This sort of special pleading stinks of "victim envy". Compared to the grossly ubiquitous normativity of systemic discrimination against nonwhite, female & nonbinary persons, incidents of anti-'straight white male' discrimination are de minimis and, more significantly, not systemic (after all 'the system' is, in fact, controlled by 'straight white male' elites predominately for the benefit of 'straight white male' elites ...) — 180 Proof
Aren't most straight white male victims of discrimination poor? Like with a biker tatto? — frank
Yes, but aren't most victims of discrimination period poor, like I don't see any millionaires being descriminated against — sarah young
Exactly. Money is the great equalizer. That is the great capitalist virtue. — frank
Well yeah but in America if you are born poor there is a good chance you and every single one of your descendants will be poor — sarah young
No social system has fixed that problem so far. There is no substitute for finding the ladder and getting your ass up onto it. — frank
I'm talking about specifically America where this is a problem. This is not a problem in most of the western world. — sarah young
If you're saying there is less social mobility, I'd be interested in statistics that demonstrate that. — frank
But still, point taken. What is it that makes social mobility greater in these countries? — frank
You know what, I'll actually have to look into that because at this point I really don't know — sarah young
No social system has fixed that problem so far. There is no substitute for finding the ladder and getting your ass up onto it. — frank
I would have suspected that the UK has high immobility (low social mobility) as it is one of the most traditional class societies. And the stats do tell it.It's a general trend that income inequality and social immobility are linearly related. — fdrake
This was due to "broad economic growth and occupational transformation, not from equal chances to take advantage of opportunity," he writes. The waning of these trends in recent decades, he adds, has "unmasked" the reality that people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have a tough time moving up." — sarah young
Which do you think has the biggest impact on prosperity and social mobility: internal policies or external factors like war (whether cold or hot)? — frank
40% of americans are below poverty, — sarah young
Some babies are born black - other babies have different skin pigmentation.
Though, it's not all about skin pigmentation; it's about genetic build.
Race is not a social construct. Different, non-relative genetic builds occur naturally.
Animals in the Southern Hemisphere, are nurtured by the Earth and Sun a lot differently than those in the Northern Hemisphere.
The human vessel evovles differently in different parts of the world.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/us-capitol-threat-insurrection-riot-january-6/10371047/We know that members of the militia groups that were present on January 6 have stated their desires that they want to blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union, which we know that date has not been identified. — acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Pittman, Feb. 25, 2021
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2021/02/16/end-trump-era-white-nationalists-increasingly-embrace-political-violenceSystemic Racism is one of the policing functions of Structural Classism that facilitates the socio-economic structure (i.e. status quo) reproducing, or perpetuating, itself.
We are what we struggle against as much as, maybe even more than, we are what we strive for.
[ ... ] structures of exploitation and their sub-systems of discrimination are the complex cause of INJUSTICE, with which one is either willingly or obliviously complicit or one is not ... — 180 Proof
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