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Going by your avatar, you are not diverse. Actually, the fact that you even exist is a problem, and you should stop doing this.
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Root797735y>tfw anti-discrimination efforts turn into active discrimination
>tfw it's always been bloody obvious this would happen
>tfw people still can't see it
>tfw "It's okay to be white." is racist
>tfw intolerant "tolerants"
>tfw double standards
>tfw disagreeing is basically criminal
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We live in a society
I was just complaining about this type of shit to my cousin after seeing something about a program in some inner-city community that is made up of like >90% minorities, which gives them a high school degree, a college degree and a job in 6 years.
Like fuck me, I'd love to have had that option but because I'm white and happen to live somewhere that's literally two rungs higher on the ladder and doesn't consistent of crime and murder, I'm just shit out of luck.
It's fuckin ridiculous. There's also a lot of minority only scholarships offered to my high school, yet most of them don't even go to college, and the ones that do go to the local community college because it's basically free these days. But fuck me for being white. -
@Stuxnet and I get most of these programs exist to help try and improve the future, but c'mon now. It's ridiculous to exclude people that are in the almost exact same boat as the target audience.
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Ehhh yes lets create events for that particular group because they are underrepresented... And of course dont invite anyone else because they are represented enough.
Instead of making a event for everybody, they just increase separation of those groups...
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@Stuxnet people don't understand that "social justice" or any kind of "justice+" is actually injustice, just in favor of the "oppressed." Proper justice is just for all. Until we can get that wedged into people's thick skulls we will just be perpetuating cycles of injustice and merely adjusting the beneficiaries rather than solving problems.
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My state literally has a law that bans discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to individuals based on things like “race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin”. Been a law since ‘98. And now people are trying to amend it so that people can start using affirmative action again. Somehow wrote the new initiative in such a way that “preferential treatment” is still banned but “affirmative action” is totally legit. -.-
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@jennytengsonM Ironically, just the type of crowd that is most likely to be the most inclusive. Because if you don't give a shit about identity politics you tend to not make it part of your social interactions.
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hitko31455y@halfflat Granted it's not the same, but we're already at the point where white men are blamed for everything, labelled, more likely to get their property taken away (at least in case of divorce) and banned from fully participating in society (in favour of "diversity"), which is pretty damn close to how they started treating Jews a couple years prior to WWII.
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zeters335y@hitko You should clearly catch up on antisemtism and history in general if you think stuff like marital law and the "bans from society" you are talking about are comparable. We are not even remotely close to "how they started treating Jews a couple years prior to WWII" and the situation of white men today has and will have nothing to do with the resentment of antisemtism.
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hitko31455y@zeters I stand by my point. You should understand things you're talking about didn't happen overnight; they were introduced incrementally, first by making it harder for Jews to participate in public life, get into good schools, being treated unfairly in court / legal affairs, all while brainwashing people into liking them less. Only after public was full of hate they introduced legalisation to ban Jews from society, and that was already after Operation Hummingbird where Nazis purged their political opposition. Failing to see what lead to the ultimate result you're talking about doesn't mean similar things aren't happening today.
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@halfflat Ooohhhh you're offended. Holy shit YOU ARE FUCKING OFFENDED! Guess the world is about to stop rotating!
Look, white men are the only group against whom racism and sexism is socially accepted, which is pretty much akin to Jews in the 19th century. -
@Root Agreed on all points. Even as a 16 year old in germany I'm constantly met with that crap.
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@halfflat I think the point is that it's a long slippery slope, not that we've even remotely approached a point of equivalence.
The only events around me seem to be strictly for women and "diverse" people... Whatever the fuck that means. I guess fuck who I am as a person, right?
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