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We often interpret a thing to better validate our own biases and prejudices.
LanternWaste
Mar 2012
#41
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freshwest
Mar 2012
#18
Indeed. As this thread begins to reveal, we don't even seem to have the vocabulary
Romulox
Mar 2012
#21
Read the thread. People are telling us that CEOs and Senators "prove" the extent of privilege...
Romulox
Mar 2012
#83
Hmmmm. But it is both a class and a race issue. Are you denying White Male Privilege?
el_bryanto
Mar 2012
#108
I dont usually agree with Romulox, HOWEVER, if given a choice between being a
stevenleser
Mar 2012
#116
Ted Koppel did a story a few years ago where he asked several white people if they
Number23
Apr 2012
#179
"Money is not everything and never has been. Dignity means alot to people too."
redqueen
Apr 2012
#195
I'm from a working/lower class background. I received my A.B. from a "Public Ivy."
amandabeech
Apr 2012
#168
why so many white men like me can be found whining about how tough it is to be a white man:
arcane1
Mar 2012
#17
i am sad to say, a lot of us women are helping these men out. letting them off the hook and feeling
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#28
"by almost any metric... a pretty sweet deal to start out life as a white male"
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2012
#23
By a ratio of 3:2, women are sent by society. Specificially, the women's educational equity program.
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2012
#147
No, it's not the definition of institutional sexism. When something is institutionalized it means
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#149
Sure it is. Laws dictating preferential treatment by gender is institutional sexism.
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2012
#162
When boys were more likely to go to college in the 40s & 50s, most primary teachers were
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#166
How, in any stretch of the imagination, could someone whine 'how tough white men have it?
chrisa
Mar 2012
#128
I'm guessing that the author of ths piece knows a lot of successful white guys
Nye Bevan
Mar 2012
#31
As An African American Male, I Don't Think That All White Men Have It Easy in America
Yavin4
Mar 2012
#33
a) People don't get paid for "their level of education". They get paid for what they do.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2012
#120
White women are more likely to be unemployed than black women. Is that because they
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#145
I find that the white guys with the self esteem issue mentioned in the OP, are those
JoePhilly
Mar 2012
#74
Half of white men working full-time in 2007 made less than $50K. Are you saying that if they just
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#143
Thanks for the anecdotes, but the fact is that half of white men make less than $50K, and in the
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#156
Some white men apparently disagree, and seem to believe that they are an oppressed
Zorra
Mar 2012
#75
Sure, white male privege doesn't work EVERY time, but it works enough to make a difference
Taverner
Mar 2012
#95
Seems more accurate to say that Straight, White, Christian, Upperclass Males rule.
stevenleser
Mar 2012
#97
Yes I am. You are aware that a poor person cannot even afford a taxi, right? nt
stevenleser
Mar 2012
#109
This is exactly what drives white working-class men away from the Democratic party
eek MD
Mar 2012
#132
There are many kinds of privilege. A white middle class woman about equals a poor white man
stevenleser
Mar 2012
#134
+1 I'd add that harping on white male privilege while the Democratic Party accedes to policies
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#148
I'd go one farther: the singular focus on race is often pushed by corporate, "New" Democrats
Romulox
Apr 2012
#151
Agreed. Not only a diversion, but a good way to keep people isolated in their own little
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#152
Not only white, but witty, intelligent, dashingly handsome & not bald.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2012
#169