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re: Hey, White People.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:15 am to genro
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:15 am to genro
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I think you do this too.
I don't follow
I don't think of people on welfare as shite people or trashy (criminals are a different matter, but I regard them the same whether they're peddling drugs or white collar criminals), just individuals in shite situations without adequate incentive to better themselves organically. Could just as easily be any of us, and who's to say you or I wouldn't try to maximize the system instead of taking the foreign risk of striking out on one's supportive own?
Looking at the world based more on socioeconomic status than melanin count makes things like welfare far bigger than just a race problem. Imho
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quote:aaand now it all makes sense
I meant "you people"
My bad for the lengthy and unnecessary reply :lol:
This post was edited on 9/12/14 at 10:17 am
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Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:20 am to TbirdSpur2010
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White People.
Checking in. What did I miss?
I'm not reading the other 10 pages.
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:24 am to TbirdSpur2010
+1
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:25 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:I think it would depend a lot of on the mindset of your group. The larger American culture, steeped in our history, is one of individualism and ruggedness. The American Dream, land of opportunity, go make something of yourself, you can work hard and get rich. Something like that. Obviously huge variances among individuals and groups but I think that's a pretty constant theme. This is a problem of insular isolated cultures where this is not the ethos. The culture teaches them something else, that life is something that happens to you rather than something you make, we are beholden to the state, we are victims. Something like that. It's a different mindset, and they won't assimilate. There's no need to. The fact that this "culture" has been legitimized is such a tragedy. This is their way of life now.
Could just as easily be any of us, and who's to say you or I wouldn't try to maximize the system instead of taking the foreign risk of striking out on one's supportive own?
Posted on 9/12/14 at 10:31 am to TbirdSpur2010
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I think you do this too.
I don't follow
Regarding the black community.
It's a community when we're talking privilege, it's not when we're talking responsibility.
I don't want to talk about privilege, but race gets played up a whole lot until we start talking about statistical anomalies that are attributed to society rather than the group in question.
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