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In reply to the discussion: Prejudice against whites is not the same as prejudice against blacks [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)53. Is higher car insurance rates for young men "discrimination"?
Young men inarguably are higher risks and incur more costs. The opposite of discrimination is "indiscriminate" so... maybe so.
Principal Findings
Per capita lifetime expenditure is $316,600, a third higher for females ($361,200) than males ($268,700). Two-fifths of this difference owes to women's longer life expectancy. Nearly one-third of lifetime expenditures is incurred during middle age, and nearly half during the senior years. For survivors to age 85, more than one-third of their lifetime expenditures will accrue in their remaining years.
Per capita lifetime expenditure is $316,600, a third higher for females ($361,200) than males ($268,700). Two-fifths of this difference owes to women's longer life expectancy. Nearly one-third of lifetime expenditures is incurred during middle age, and nearly half during the senior years. For survivors to age 85, more than one-third of their lifetime expenditures will accrue in their remaining years.
Men (workplace injury) and women (pregnancy) have roughly equal medical costs up to middle age. One half of the total cost of women's care is spent when her male peers are already dead.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/
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Prejudice against whites is not the same as prejudice against blacks [View all]
CreekDog
Apr 2012
OP
Plan on leaving the planet? Because unless you're another species of sentient hominid,
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#11
you're just as dead if you're killed by a prejudiced individual as killed by a racist.
provis99
Apr 2012
#36
I thought when racism spred institutionally, it was called Institutional Racism.
hughee99
Apr 2012
#142
maybe being bombarded by threads saying essentially how terrible white people and white men are
quinnox
Apr 2012
#20
You need to go back and read the post carefully because that IS NOT WHAT WAS SAID NOR
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#21
i made it clear that both are wrong, but there is an additional injury when one's experience
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#24
Many of the posts (I think we're both talking about the same ones) weren't declaring
JonLP24
Apr 2012
#52
i don't think i could convince someone who defended Ron Paul's newsletters as not being his views
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#74
Dude, do you have me confused with someone else? WTF are you talking about?
Skip Intro
Apr 2012
#114
Im back to confirm that you used the term "race card" several times in reference to Obama
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#124
CreekDog, I understood what you were trying to say and most of the poster did. Some, however
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#22
I'm actually a bit surprised with the viciousness and ferocity by apparent progressives
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#27
Exactly, The latent bigots are surfacing in the wake of Trayvon's murder and as far as posting.....
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#30
Yes, I do know what you mean. It's just sad but I suppose, it's better that "they" are unmasked so
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#65
if a thousand people are doing something wrong isn't it worse than if one person is?
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#45
I don't study the holocaust. And don't attempt to link your argument to the noble cause of ...
TeamsterDem
Apr 2012
#58
I explain to you what I said 100 times and you are telling me what I really said?
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#84
I don't know what OP you're responding to, because I don't approve of what happened to you
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#31
Gosh, I'm really sorry that happened Meow. You're right, hatred is hatred. Your life is priceless
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#34
One can be the victim of a hate crime and also the beneficiary of institutional racism.
Gormy Cuss
Apr 2012
#37
Soooo.... It all depends on who the target is, as to how atrocious it is. Gotcha.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#32
JoePhilly, my grandfather told me MANY stories of having to deal with "sun Down" laws, if you know
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#69
my grandmother moved to Vero Beach, Florida in 1980 said older black men would step off the sidewalk
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#79
I live in a world where what you've written is understood by people capable of rationale thought
jp11
Apr 2012
#43
"her health care needs were viewed differently because she was a woman"
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2012
#49
"Huh? Are there people prejudiced against white guys?" Honestly, that was my gut reaction to the OP.
Mister Ed
Apr 2012
#56
Clever. Except I want the government to do more for whites than you want it to do.
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#77
some people seem to be responding rather angrily to things you're not really saying
fishwax
Apr 2012
#76
Prejudice doesn't come in degrees. It's wrong on the same level no matter which way it travels.
cherokeeprogressive
Apr 2012
#86
prejudice may not be in degrees, but the amount of prejudice a person experiences does vary
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#131
i don't think it takes rocket science to say that blacks and minorities are at a disadvantage
CreekDog
Apr 2012
#103
Maybe it would be easier for people to get if we leave black and white out of it
eridani
Apr 2012
#98
So, since black people are more likely to be murdered by another black person,
OccupyTheIRS
Apr 2012
#113
When I read your diary I thought, "and rain is wet", then I started reading the replies...
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#116