The 'White Discrimination' Myth

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

Most conservatives and Republicans have contrived the inane myth that they’ve somehow become ‘victims’ – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth; no one is seeking to ‘disadvantage’ white Americans.

And that Trump is exploiting that myth for political gain comes as no surprise.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

White and discriminated against?

‘Ask Hershman whether there is discrimination against whites, and he answered even before this reporter could finish the question — with an emphatic "Absolutely."

"It's been going on for decades, and it's been getting worse for whites," Hershman contended, despite data showing whites continue to be better off financially and educationally than minority groups.

Even though Hershman believes he has been a victim of anti-white discrimination, he wasn't able to provide a specific example. He describes losing out on a promotion — and a younger African-American being selected as one of the finalists for the job. But the position eventually went to a white applicant, who was also younger than Hershman.’ ibid

He wasn’t able to provide a specific example because none exists.

 

[Mac1958]

If there's anything white people don't like, tough shit. It doesn't exist.

This is about payback, not healing.

And we move on.
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[Damaged Eagle]

Yes we can see that revenge is always justified to the progressive mind think.

*****SMILE*****

 

[midcan5]

Donnie John Trump is the 'emotional sustenance' for the aggrieved white man and women. Little do they know they are being played by corporate billionaires. See 'Dark Money'.

"I'm here because our republican values are number one, standing up for local white identity, our identity is under threat, number two, the free market, and number three, killing Jews." Sean Patrick Nielsen, Charlottesville [Video on Washpo]

'Dog Whistle Politics As Strategic Racism' "Wallace, Goldwater, and Nixon constitute classic strategic racists. In the context of the times, they were all initially racial moderates. They may have harbored tainted beliefs, but racial animosity did not drive their actions. Instead, they concentrated hard, weighing and sifting, to figure out how they could most effectively gain votes. If a more promising route had been available, they would have taken it. But race seemed the most likely avenue, so each opted to harness racial divisions to their agenda of getting elected. This was not about racism, it was about winning. Also, they were not racially omniscient, moving instead within a settled framework of ideas about race that for the most part they took for granted. Even so, unlike most in society, these politicians thought long and deep about how to turn race to their advantage. We've previously defined strategic racism as purposeful efforts to use racial animosity as leverage to gain political power (or material wealth and social standing). By this definition, Wallace, Goldwater, and Nixon acted out of strategic racism. This last sentence sparks an important clarification. I write interchangeably of "dog whistle politics" and "dog whistle racism." The first is a less freighted term. But the truth is, racial dog whistle politics is dog whistle racism. It is a strategic manipulation of racial ideas in pursuit of political power and (especially once big money conservatives got behind the tactic) material wealth." p48 'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López


"...One did not have to be very bright to realize how little one could do to change one’s situation; one did not have to be abnormally sensitive to be worn down to a cutting edge by the incessant and gratuitous humiliation and danger one encountered every working day, all day long. The humiliation did not apply merely to working days, or workers; I was thirteen and was crossing Fifth Avenue on my way to the Forty-second Street library, and the cop in the middle of the street muttered as I passed him, “Why don’t you ******* stay uptown where you belong?” When I was ten, and didn’t look, certainly, any older, two policemen amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual prowess, and, for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem’s empty lots. Just before and then during the Second World War, many of my friends fled into the service, all to be changed there, and rarely for the better, many to be ruined, and many to die. Others fled to other states and cities—that is, to other ghettos. Some went on wine or whiskey or the needle, and are still on it. And others, like me, fled into the church." James Baldwin Letter from a Region in My Mind

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

What do you call "Affirmative Action"? A protected class - unconstitutional at the core - is given special consideration in all things wherever the law is applied, to the detriment of all others.

How is this by any logic NOT discrimination?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

Where in the article does it say this 55% is all Republicans and conservatives? Are you actually naive enough to believe there aren't Democrats who think that way? Clearly, you've never hung around the blue collar union workers in Boston in the neighborhoods I ran around in.

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

You mean the kind of ignorance you just displayed by flat out dismissing these people's opinions because it doesn't fit your personal bias?

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.

And yet here we are. You just did exactly that with your stereotyping you just engaged in

 

[Mac1958]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

What do you call "Affirmative Action"? A protected class - unconstitutional at the core - is given special consideration in all things wherever the law is applied, to the detriment of all others.

How is this by any logic NOT discrimination?

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

Where in the article does it say this 55% is all Republicans and conservatives? Are you actually naive enough to believe there aren't Democrats who think that way? Clearly, you've never hung around the blue collar union workers in Boston in the neighborhoods I ran around in.

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

You mean the kind of ignorance you just displayed by flat out dismissing these people's opinions because it doesn't fit your personal bias?

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.

And yet here we are. You just did exactly that with your stereotyping you just engaged in

This is a person who denies the very existence of Political Correctness and Identity Politics.

What do you expect?
.

 

[Vastator]

Anyone who doesn't believe in the preferential treatment of minorities/discrimination against white males... Hasn't walked into a government run agency in a while... Check out your local DMV, or the TSA goons next time you roll through an airport...

 

[theHawk]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

What do you call "Affirmative Action"? A protected class - unconstitutional at the core - is given special consideration in all things wherever the law is applied, to the detriment of all others.

How is this by any logic NOT discrimination?

...and with that:

/thread closed

 

[JQPublic1]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

What do you call "Affirmative Action"? A protected class - unconstitutional at the core - is given special consideration in all things wherever the law is applied, to the detriment of all others.

How is this by any logic NOT discrimination?

...and with that:

/thread closed

Nope! Thresd re opened. Affirmative Action has been nullified so effeciently it is as if it doesn't exist atall.. The white community still controls education, hiring and the justice system. White suffering because of Affirmative Action is non existent.

 

[LOIE]

‘A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."

More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today. Hershman's view is similar to what was heard on the campaign trail at Trump rally after Trump rally. Donald Trump catered to white grievance during the 2016 presidential campaign and has done so as president as well.'

Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination

Who exactly are ‘they.’

This is the sort of ignorance, hate, stupidity, and bigotry common to far too many on the right.

Needless to say, whites are not being ‘discrimination against.’

Most conservatives and Republicans have contrived the inane myth that they’ve somehow become ‘victims’ – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth; no one is seeking to ‘disadvantage’ white Americans.

And that Trump is exploiting that myth for political gain comes as no surprise.

I've been reading the book "When Work Disappears," and it says this: One study in Los Angeles found that even after education, income, family background and place of residence were taken into account, dark-skinned black men were 52 percent less likely to be working than light-skinned black men. Many of the selective recruitment practices do represent what economists call statistical discrimination: employers make assumptions about the inner-city black workers in general and reach decisions based on those assumptions before they have had a chance to review systematically the qualifications of an individual applicant. The net effect is that many black inner-city applicants are never given the chance to prove their qualifications on an individual level because they are systematically screened out by the selective recruitment process. Statistical discrimination, although representing elements of class bias against poor workers in the inner city, is clearly a matter of race.

A 33 year old janitor had this observation: "I went to a couple jobs where a couple of the receptionists told me in confidence: "You know what they do with these applications from blacks as soon as the day is over? We rip them and throw em in the garbage."

Yep, sounds like discrimination to me - but not the kind some folks want us to believe.