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I think the most important part of that article was this quote, not the one you quoted:
"It is not terribly surprising that whites subjectively perceive discrimination against members of their own group as an especially significant and growing problem, even though, objectively speaking, bias against blacks is far more pervasive, problematic and ill-intentioned."
That about sums up the whole survey.
When you take a survey you ask people's OPINIONS. At the end of a decent survey you do NOT say: Well, the survey showed THIS, but those who felt a particular way are WRONG and thus...blah, blah!
You either take a survey of felt discrimination or you categorically say that only the black Americans' opinions have merit. That's just prejudice and tosses out the value of the survey.
Any white man who tries to get food stamps, welfare payment, or Public Housing will feel REAL anti-white racism and the 10% who reported it were not delusional.
Racism cuts both ways and the survey reflects that.
When you take a survey you ask people's OPINIONS. At the end of a decent survey you do NOT say: Well, the survey showed THIS, but those who felt a particular way are WRONG and thus...blah, blah!
You either take a survey of felt discrimination or you categorically say that only the black Americans' opinions have merit. That's just prejudice and tosses out the value of the survey.
Any white man who tries to get food stamps, welfare payment, or Public Housing will feel REAL anti-white racism and the 10% who reported it were not delusional.
Racism cuts both ways and the survey reflects that.
You do realize that white folks are the largest recipients of welfare in this country... talk about racism and stereotyping... apparently only us minorities are allowed to get this since we are more prone to it...
Actually corporations are the largest users of welfare....but nobody ever talks about that..while corporations are busy stealing billions, your retirement funds, stagnating wages, shipping jobs overseas, paying huge compensation to an elite few, rigging the stockmarket, and stripping the equity out of your home....they STILL are getting huge welfare...and the funniest part is that they have you blaming the black guy who stole an ipod ..or the brown woman on welfare as the real problem. RIGHT!
But as an average, we get more relative to our population.
For example, there are roughly 300 million people in the U.S, with roughly 65% being non-Hispanic Whites (for a total of 195 million Whites)
Out of those Whites, say 15% are on welfare: That makes for 29 million Whites on welfare.
If the remaining 105 million are minorities, and 25% are on welfare, that means that 26 million are on welfare: That means we make up 35% of the population, but receive close to 50% of the welfare.
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Actually corporations are the largest users of welfare....but nobody ever talks about that..while corporations are busy stealing billions, your retirement funds, stagnating wages, shipping jobs overseas, paying huge compensation to an elite few, rigging the stockmarket, and stripping the equity out of your home....they STILL are getting huge welfare...and the funniest part is that they have you blaming the black guy who stole an ipod ..or the brown woman on welfare as the real problem. RIGHT!
True indeed. Lets not forget about how corporations make a boatload of money from the prison industrial complex on keeping people locked up in jail. And lets not forget about the military industrial complex in which corporations oppress other countries. Well said Sobroguy. I read books about the welfare industrial complex, it was sickining.
Look up the world's countries with the highest standard of living... What do they all (besides Japan) have in common?
Ummm, that they got rich off of exploiting the natural resources of third world countries....ohhh maybe its that they got rich off of a cheap source of labor for centuries...no wait is it that they used the IMF and World Bank to extort the economies of the same countries that made them rich? I don't know, I guess you'll have to clear it all up for me.
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