Reply #44: What bothers you most

[shondradawson]

about the old tired "white men use it to oppress" bit.

Where you live and work sounds like a good, diversified, and in America, most unusual place.

Please don't dismiss someone's arguments of oppression as long as there are collective groups in America who are still fighting for freedoms, liberties, and opportunities that they still don't have. And please don't ignore that white men have always had them, and used those very same freedoms, liberties, and opportunities to deny everybody else's.

I don't understand the concept of white guilt: there is no reason at all for white men to feel guilty about something what was done in the past. If there is guilt, it is because the effects of what was done is still reverberating in the present, and many of them stand there and point behind their backs instead of to their own faces, or their own minds. And please don't discredit the reflections of what could only be the white male perspective in pornography.

White men founded this country and white men run it. Why is it, that everytime a problem or conflict arises either from the past, the present, or about the future, white men sigh, roll their eyes, and get snippy when the "minority" group points at them and holds them responsible? I'm not being snide, I really would like to know...