Question for White Americans about the future of US

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

No such thing as "reverse" discrimination, discrimination by definition does not mean white against black, it means DISCRIMINATION.
And I am 100% sure that your experience means all white people are about to be discriminated against all over the UNITED STATES.

You're right about the term discrimination. I was not alone in my experience, although I did use personal events to make a point. Within the white community of El Paso, many reported similar experiences. As a white person, I abhor racism, and I would never treat anyone differently because of race, whether it was a hiring decision or whether I needed to provide care for a person (I'm in the medical field) I speak up when I see racial injustice and don't tolerate it in my office. However, that kind of commitment to racial fairness was not reciprocated to me in El Paso. The fact that you denied my experience and minimized it shows that you don't think it was very important or real.

I did not minimize or deny your experience, I minimized your ridiculous extrapolation to future country wide, rampant racism against all white people.
I guess lack of reading comprehension is just as real as racism in El Paso.

Why is it ridiculous? The question was what do you see in the future? Please follow simple conventions for polite discussion in a discussion forum. If you would like a list of generally accepted guidelines, I'd be happy to help you.

Let's trade, you give me a guideline for polite discussion and I'll give you one on not making broad brush assumptions about what all minorities will do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

No such thing as "reverse" discrimination, discrimination by definition does not mean white against black, it means DISCRIMINATION.
And I am 100% sure that your experience means all white people are about to be discriminated against all over the UNITED STATES.

You're right about the term discrimination. I was not alone in my experience, although I did use personal events to make a point. Within the white community of El Paso, many reported similar experiences. As a white person, I abhor racism, and I would never treat anyone differently because of race, whether it was a hiring decision or whether I needed to provide care for a person (I'm in the medical field) I speak up when I see racial injustice and don't tolerate it in my office. However, that kind of commitment to racial fairness was not reciprocated to me in El Paso. The fact that you denied my experience and minimized it shows that you don't think it was very important or real.

I did not minimize or deny your experience, I minimized your ridiculous extrapolation to future country wide, rampant racism against all white people.
I guess lack of reading comprehension is just as real as racism in El Paso.

Why is it ridiculous? The question was what do you see in the future? Please follow simple conventions for polite discussion in a discussion forum. If you would like a list of generally accepted guidelines, I'd be happy to help you.

Let's trade, you give me a guideline for polite discussion and I'll give you one on not making broad brush assumptions about what all minorities will do.

I didn't say all minorities would do it, I said whites would experience discrimination. It's just like saying we have laws now, but racism still exists, which we both know iis true.....In spite of many attempts to eradicate it. What I experienced was discrimination with no real recourse in spite of trying to bring it to people's attention. I don't think it is out of the realm of reality that some whites would experience discrimimation....like some of other races still experience discriminination now. I never said ALL, that was something you interjected. I just said I and others experienced it, in an actual situation, in a large city, where whites were minority.

You never provided facts why this prediction would not be a possibility.

A simple list might be:

1. Refrain from ad hominem attacks. Snarky replies, replies which imply the poster is an unintelligent subpar human. You use that to discredit the reply by attempting to discredit the poster.. lazy, not passing the lowest bar of intelligent discussion.
2. Listen to and Respect the opinions of others. It is not likely they wiill change your mind, nor will you change theirs.
3. Be careful of your tone and use of sarcasm. Ask questions like "why?" Or other questions which tend to further discussion.
4.Find common ground, appreciating the opportunity to expand your own research to explain your position or learning so

Actually, I don't care that you were snarky, but I think it lowers the quality of discussion.

[Anonymous]

Interesting, I found a lot of friendliness and good attitude when my son and I were the minority among Hispanic people (where we live and he goes to school, in stores, restaurants).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

Don't bother responding, she is more concerned with whether or not she feels ur response is polite than whether her response makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

Slavery exists all over the world, in many cultures past or present. I'm a Quaker who came from a hundred or more generations of quakers, who on because oftheir disgust with slavery.

No fairness is not a white value, but I found when living in El Paso, racism as a value, was not ranked very high by that particular group of people, at least not as high as I hear the Democratic Party speaking about it.

Do you think white people experience racism? Have you seen it? What did you do about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

Don't bother responding, she is more concerned with whether or not she feels ur response is polite than whether her response makes sense.

What's wrong with being polite? Why do you think it couldn't happen?

[Anonymous]

Wish whites were a minority now cause it would help my DS get into an ivy league university next year.

[Anonymous]

Your ability to assimilate is how minorities make it in the world. You share some of your own ideas and learn from it and you take in new ideas and learn from it. You don't pick sides. You try to choose the better of the options given and you work with it to fit your morale (since people know right from wrong). You try to come together to create a better understanding of others.

The whole world knows about America and the typical Americans but we do not know about others. In fact, some of us do not want to know about others or their culture. Perfect example: "I only eat bbq or hot dogs, hamburgers, fries." Or some people just don't talk to anyone outside their race even though you know they speak good English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

Slavery exists all over the world, in many cultures past or present. I'm a Quaker who came from a hundred or more generations of quakers, who on because oftheir disgust with slavery.

No fairness is not a white value, but I found when living in El Paso, racism as a value, was not ranked very high by that particular group of people, at least not as high as I hear the Democratic Party speaking about it.

Do you think white people experience racism? Have you seen it? What did you do about it?

What in the world does the Democratic Party have to do with some mean people you supposedly met in El Paso?
P.S. How is the weather in Russia, troll bot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

. So you've actually lived as a minority and experienced real racism. Seems to me that you might be able to understand and empathize with how difficult it is to be a minority.

Fairness is a white value? How about slavery and Jim Crow? Are those white values?

Slavery exists all over the world, in many cultures past or present. I'm a Quaker who came from a hundred or more generations of quakers, who on because oftheir disgust with slavery.

No fairness is not a white value, but I found when living in El Paso, racism as a value, was not ranked very high by that particular group of people, at least not as high as I hear the Democratic Party speaking about it.

Do you think white people experience racism? Have you seen it? What did you do about it?

What in the world does the Democratic Party have to do with some mean people you supposedly met in El Paso?
P.S. How is the weather in Russia, troll bot?

Yep, you outed me. I AM THE RUSSIAN BOT and an housewife in DCUZm found out about me. Less rubles in mr pay check now. Oh no!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wish whites were a minority now cause it would help my DS get into an ivy league university next year.

White will not be a minority. So how op and other think not the majority means minority. Whites will be the largest group in this country well into the next century.

[Anonymous]

Hispanics are predominately caucasian

[Anonymous]

This thread is ugh! It just comes across as so smug and self-important and also oblivious! This is why I have no close white friends. Jesus be a history class!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in EL Paso, where white was minority. I was blatantly discriminated against in small and big ways. Small - service people being polite and doing their job - I was often ignored. Big - I was passed over being hired and had trouble getting a job when I was equally or more qualified. However, even though I brought these issues up, nothing was done.

I predict trying to achieve fairness and eliminate racism is a white value, and reverse discrimation will be rampant, with little regard for white people, because that's what I experienced already as a white minority.

It's more likely you were discriminated against because you were an obvious outsider. This also happens to white people who are obvious outsiders in mostly white places, like New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, Kansas and Utah.

And white people all over the country are already discriminated against in large numbers every day. The most detested people in America are those living in poverty, and the majority of that population is white.