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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread perfectly illustrates the fundamental flaw of identity politics.  Assigning people to groups and seeking to treat them first and foremost as a representative of "their" group is unjust.

Many members of Group X are performing poorly.

DCUM: "Who cares?  Totally different members of that group are doing fine, and in the years before the current members were born benefited from XYZ."

As long as you reduce people to representatives of their group and score everything as groups you will never be able to achieve an actual fair and just society.

This is especially true when our racial categories are ridiculously broad.  "Asian" captures fully 60% of the world's population.  "Hispanic" captures peoples from across North America, South America, the Caribbean, and of course Europe.

White meanwhile is anyone of principally European, Russian, Middle Eastern, etc, ancestry.  What exactly does a Kurd have to do with a Swede?  [/quote]

Right, it's not like there is an entire multi-generational institutional structure (including real estate laws, insurance company practices, voting restrictions, entrenched power structures hostile to minorities, racist policing, etc.) explicitly designed to protect the economic interests of white me.  Oh, wait....[/quote]
There is but a lot of this current generation of white men aren't benefitting from it. They believe they should be better off than they are but are putting no effort into improving themselves. They just sit around and complain but do nothing to get ahead. They just expect it should magically happen to them because it is their birthright. They don't realize they need to work to get ahead.

Whose fault is it? I do blame the men and their parents for not teaching them they need to work for success.But we as a society need to start programs (like the men's centers mentioned above) to help these men succeed. [/quote]

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