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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's shitty that they have programs literally geared toward every student except white males.  Is there a correlating general leadership program that all can participate in in addition to or instead of these programs?[/quote]

Why do you think it's shitty? Do you think white males need a special program to be empowered?  Do you feel your white male child does not have enough support to overcome challenges in his life?  What kind of problems do you think your white male child will face getting into college, going to college, and in the workplace?  [/quote]

Fashionable anti-white racism and anti-white-male sexism, as displayed throughout this thread? Surrounded by propaganda celebrating that "the future is female?" Being sadled with blood guilt for the actions of long-dead white men against other long-dead people? The deck stacked against them in college admissions, hiring, and promotion as institutions are desperate to radically "diversify," even as women increasingly dominate college campuses.

The only group who has it worse now are Chinese Americans.[/quote]

This person is working hard to shore up a narrative that most people by 2020 know is utterly false (that somehow racism is in the past), and in doing so, doing the work of racism.

People who actually study history know that when slavery ended, reconstruction began to make real gains for people who had been enslaved, so white Americans came up with Jim Crow, segregation, poll taxes, the Klan, etc. to enforce white supremacy.

When civil rights legislation ended de jure segregation, they invented a whole range of tactics to segregate schools. They invented redlining, racist real estate practices, racist mortgage programs focused on white suburbs which excluded black communities, racist insurance rating practices, etc. all worked to prevent Black accumulation of wealth and facilitate white wealth accumulation.  This is all during my lifetime -- my elementary school was officially segregated, 20 years after Brown vs Board of Education.

And, of course, the explicitly (and acknowledged as such by some of it's architects) war on drugs that targeted Black communities while leaving white drug users and dealers undisturbed.   And the mortgage practices of 2000-2009 (including "junk loans for mud people" according to one Wells Fargo executive who was caught on tape laughing about his bank's racism).

And in 2020, you can find literally hundreds of studies -- mostly paid for by police departments -- that show that the criminal justice system is systematically racist at every stage.  Black people are stopped much more by police (despite research showing no difference in driving offenses), searched more when they are stopped (despite the fact that white people are slightly more likely to have drugs or guns), arrested more when they are searched (despite less contraband being found), charged with more serious crimes based on similar facts, convicted more on similar evidence, sentenced for longer on similar convictions, violated for parole more based on similar violations, etc.  An excellent overview is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/opinions/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system/#Policing

All of this starts before birth.  A Black woman with a Phd is more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman who didn't finish high school.  Black patients who have Black doctors have DRAMATICALLY better outcomes, and surveys of white physicians consistently find that they hold many incorrect and dangerous ideas about physiological differences between whites and Blacks.

And it continues throughout childhood.  Black kids are suspended and expelled at much higher rates than white kids for the similar behaviors starting in preschool.  Black kids are enormously more likely to be ARRESTED in school in places that have police in schools than white children with similar behaviors.

So make no mistake -- PP's assumed victimhood "boohoo -- it's so HARD to be a white man, even though we earn more, go to jail less, are fired less, are unemployed less, hold the overwhelming share of positions of power in government and business, and get away with crime more" is not just nonsense.  It's someone DOING racism and sexism.  As a middle aged white guy, I really want to say to PP  -- man the hell up and stop whining.  You're not a victim. Quit trying to assume victimhood and instead go try to make the world better.[/quote]

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