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First off I never said I “heard” about it. I said I was told. As in when I went in for a job, I was told I wasn’t going to get it cause I was white. And they (govt agency) were not permitted to hire white people.
And affirmative action was absolutely systemic racism. It was literally telling people and institutions that they needed to hire less white men and more minorities. I’m not arguing that it was a necessary evil required to correct years of injustice. I’m just saying that at the time it was implemented (also the same time I entered the work force), govt agencies and private companies were essentially strong armed by the government to not hire white men. How is that not systematic racism?
Listen we obviously have different stances on this and I’m not going to get into a drawn out argument over this. I do t care that much, it was years ago. But don’t tell me that it didn’t happen. I’m was there, you weren’t.
The only reason Affirmative action is a thing is because whites are already overrepresented in the work force. If we're talking about a race, how can this policy be institutional racism when the race that you claim it affects negatively is actually still overrepresented at all levels of power??
Sucks for you, but you clearly got over it with ease. You weren't imprisoned for an 8th of weed a cop stashed in your car at a traffic stop.
Keep acting like your minor inconvenience is evidence of systemic white oppression tho.
Fucking clowns on this site I swear.
When applied at a high level, I agree with you.
But when applied to an individual it’s absolutely discriminatory.
Can you truly not see that?
I'm not even disagreeing that it's discriminatory, but institutional/systemic racism is by definition at a high level. It affects individuals but the scope is much higher level. So it cannot be evidence of said racism against whites. That's why people get argumentative about this. It's hard for the white race to be simultaneously oppressed and enjoying the majority of global power, right?
Going back to the imprisonment for weed example, that's the kind of thing that could have real generational impact. You having to job search for an extra few weeks or months probably didn't affect your grandchildren, right? The statistics for black men in prison for non violent crimes is shocking in the states.
Once again I’m not equating anything I experienced to experiences had by minorities. My original comment was refuting a user who said it didn’t happen. So your weed imprisonment example is irrelevant. I’m simply saying it does exist.
And it absolutely existed at high levels. Affirmative action wasn’t something we all just decided to do, it was legislated.
And just because there is a majority of whites in power doesn’t mean that a law limiting the hiring of whites erases the racism of that law. Both things can happen simultaneously.
By claiming to have been a victim of systemic racism, this is exactly what you are doing. You don't get to say that you were a victim of systemic racism, because systemic racism against white people is literally im-fucking-possible because they control (and created) the system.
We were so close. Have a nice day, clown.
Lol. K.