2020 Election

Poor white folks have it tough to be sure. The one's I ever see on freeway offramps or grocery store parking lot exits are usually white to be honest. I try to help them out when I can.

But the data suggests that it isn't even close; brown people (people of color...) have it far worse and comprise the majority.


Can anyone think of some ways that white poor people have it easier than people of color who are just as poor? I can.


The above quote was an excerpt from: 3.5 Dimensions of Racial and Ethnic Inequality – Social Problems Social Problems: Continuity and Change.

 

The idea that poor folks of any color don't have it hard is imaginary...

But equally imaginary is the idea that white privilege doesn't exist even for the poor.

 

I remember some guys at Aryan Nations in Hayden Lake Idaho who said things very similar to what you frequently say. I often hear you say it's all the fault of the Lefties and the minorities who claim to be victims.

 

You know, all the quote leftists need is to organize against something. It seems to me on the majority of issues they have taken the moral high ground. You could argue about abortion; of which I am not a big fan, though. But there are major consequences for unplanned or teen pregnancies as well.

 

Racism is a collectivist ideology (like socialism too)

The lie of white privileged minimizes the personal struggles of whites who were never privileged. And it insinuates the idea that non whites are natural born victims. It was invented by Peggy McIntosh.

as does mine

 

How does the left not take the moral high ground on the issue of abortion? Do they force their convictions on anti abortion people? And vice versa?

 

That's not a goal of it. It may happen accidently in debate with unnuanced people.

Not by default or by definition. Nice try.

 

I grew up fairly poor. Most of my friends had privileges I didnt. I can still recognize white privilege.

 

Sounds more like white guilt

 

Oh please point to this data. The majority of poor in the US are white, in real numbers. Actual people, not percentages. So what majority are you speaking to?

 

I love my white male privilege

When cops come to stop me I pull out my whiteness card and they let me go as I laugh in their faces

 

Meanwhile, on the issue of aging candidates.....

 

So again, you claim to be not racist and blame the Lefties?

 

Not exactly.

I feel that one per se on the right might argue that the left's decision to support a woman's right to choose vs. their pro-life stance is more socially acceptable. I'm not saying I feel that way; though I have reservations about having an abortion.

Still, I think it's the woman or parents' choice.

 

Not at all. More like white empathy. You should try it sometime.
My view on race was entirely formed by actually listening to the experiences of minorities.
You really have no right to try to minimize/cancel their experiences

 

Ok if we're playing semantics... then you're absolutely right. Here are the alarming figures:

There are others... Basic Statistics - Talk Poverty

Should we be dismissive of the reality of these percentages though? No. Absolutely not.

 

Protestants irk me for other reasons. The ones around here seem to think that Catholics are not Christians at all and are instead a bunch of idol-worshipping pagans. It's amazing to think they are convinced in this idea and lament Catholics for all sorts of shit, while being obvious racists in their own church. But then, most of them only cherry pick the bible and none of them know the story of Judith, it's a book they left out of their bible.

I don't run into many racist Catholics.

 

I have seen that happen many times. I know colored people who got tickets for driving 3 MPH over the limit and I know a white man who was let go with a verbal warning for driving 143 MPH in a new 911 Porsche Carrera in Georgia.

 

Overall Poverty Rate: 11.8% (38.1 million people)
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$25,465 for a family of four—in 2018

 

Are we on the same channel? Where do you see that here?