"Are Whites Racially Opressed?" a.k.a. "How Hard Can CNN Troll?"

[Bojack]

I was waiting for someone to say this. And Josh has been all over this for quite a while. It isn't a race thing; it's a class thing. And that's the point diff is making too to a large extent.

It is indeed a class thing more or less. There are complicated reasons minorities have problems obtaining positions of power and wealth, but it boils down to money/power. See the differences in public rich white kid schools vs. public poor black kid schools for a further understanding.

Ridiculous article and statement.

Just because Whites are outnumbered doesn't mean they're oppressed.

Yup, even if there's only 5 white guys left in America, if they hold 85+% of the wealth then whitey is still "the man".

[Josh]

Your mom is Greek.

Nope.

[Yoshi]

But it's not, or at least not exclusively. It's also the perception of class. No one is going to peg me for ghetto, and part of that is because I'm white and I sound white (if you'll forgive the generality). That's an advantage, no?

Following your generality, "sounding white" really means speaking proper English. That isn't and shouldn't be a race thing. I know plenty of people who are of different races that speak proper English. Heck, it's the second language for many of them, but they speak it properly. And that is and should be a job requirement for the vast majority of jobs. When we give people a pass for the most basic of skills, that's a whole different kind of racism in my opinion.

[Drewbacca]

Whites are still the majority of this country. They don't even separate themselves from other whites like Hispanics do.

I do. I'm Greek.

You're white.

So what you meant was that you don't separate whites.

[Cheebs]

Man, Bloom County covered this in the 80's.

[Diff-chan]

Following your generality, "sounding white" really means speaking proper English.

"white = proper and correct"

/thread

[dave is ok]

[Brisco Bold]

I love that bit.

[Cheebs]

Like I worked at a pharmaceutical warehouse where the crew working inventory, maintainance, and doing hands-on work were 90% male, and to balance this out they had an office staff that was 100% female.

While we're bringing male/female into this, I'm dying to know why there are so few women in music production. In over 10 years working in the field I have met one girl mixing front of house and monitors, and one girl doing tech duties. There are women on stage over the place. Why not behind the scenes?

[Josh]

I've only ever had two female sound guys. One in Austin, and one in Chicago.

It's probably because girls are dumb, but I can't say for sure.