Reply #34: Hmm...

[UdoKier]

"this thread was started in reference to posts that I've seen about how us white guys are so persecuted."

I don't claim to be persecuted. But I object to being called ":privileged."

"Try walking in the shoes of a black man for 10 minutes and you'll beg to be white again. You couldn't handle it..."

Maybe so, but that doesn't mean I'm "privileged".

"Sit in a corporate boardroom as the only woman and realize that your 10 times smarter than 95 percent of the guys in the room and the only reason that you're not a VP is that you have size 34 breasts."

Well, the vice president of my company is a well-paid woman, as is the Account Exec I work under. Maybe my workplace is exceptional, but I've never seen them being treated as anything but professionals at work. I'm very happy for their success, but I have not seen leering, groping, and the glass ceiling to be the norm at MY company. (But I realize there are companies with a very poor climate in this area - Wal-Mart comes to mind...)

"Oh but we cry reverse discrimiation...Bwwaaaaaa.."

I don't claim reverse discrimination. I just don't like being called "privileged" when I am not.

"That's a cop out excuse for silly ass whining white men who simply aren't smart enough to take advantage of a country run by errrr White Men"

I really wish that was true. I wish that being white as a ticket to easy street, because I would ride that bus for sure. Comments like this totally disregard the very real struggle of working-class white people in this country to stay afloat as the jobs they have depended on are all being moved overseas.