MzRie said:
Yeah, I know. I totally agree. White males have become the most oppressed group. I mean, sure, we ...are rewarded by tax policies that favor our greater ability to invest over people who only survive off of their total income, get lighter prison sentences, are less likely to be investigated and arrested by police, lower average interest on mortgage, don't suffer de facto educational segregation, hold over 70% of the positions in Congress
Not that you don't have a point with the ones I left out, but I felt a need to address a few of these.
A majority of investment bankers who benefit from those tax policies are white males yes, however a vast majority of white males are not in that position and do not benefit from it, it's incredibly dumb to say "well, most of those really rich guys are white males, therefore it's justified to act against dirt poor white males!"
The prison issue rubs multiple ways, if you're talking about whites versus minorities, you're generally right than the white guy is going to be better off, but if you're talking about men versus women, well, juries are notably more likely to rule in favor of a woman than a man, and when they do convict a woman, they tend to get lighter sentences than a man committing a similar crime. Also, in civil disputes between a man and a woman, the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the woman.
I don't know shit about mortgages, but I wanted to note on a similar issue, when I became the primary driver of one of my family's cars once my older sister moved out, the rate on the insurance went up for no other reason than a teenage male being the driver instead of a female, this despite the fact that my sister had totaled a previous car.
You mention educational segregation, I'll point to the many colleges and universities that are required to place a certain number of minorities above white men in their acceptances, not to mention the myriad scholarships available on the sole basis of what gender or skin color you are, unless you're a white male in which case such a scholarship would be considered an outrage.
As for congress, I'll point to what I said about the investment bankers, and even though a lot of these politicians use racially charged language to get votes, I've never heard of any law being passed in recent years that specifically benefits poor and/or middle class white folk, whites being in positions of power doesn't mean that all whites benefit from it.
I also want to say that when I see the "well, women were oppressed for hundreds and hundreds of years," my immediate thought is "Gee, you know, I wish I had been living hundreds of years ago then, so I could benefit from that fact instead of being condemned because of the people in the past."
