Reply #2: very interesting perspective [View All]

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not to take anything away from the very real discrimination that goes on (white/black, male/female, etc.), in many ways these are just noise when compared to the vast gap between the privileged class and the rest of us.

whites might get better jobs or houses than blacks for no reason other than race, but at the end of the day, both face similar struggles to find and maintain employment for food and shelter, e.g.

but comparing the privileged class to the rest of us, they play by an entirely different set of rules. these people can break laws with impunity because their lawyers and connections can get them out of just about anything. these people can run businesses into the ground and still get another gig as ceo again and again. these people never worry about food or shelter. they can get into top-notch colleges based on nothing beyond membership in the privileged class. and they can get hired for huge salaries based on nothing but the hope that they might produce introductions to other members of the privileged class.

i'd have to agree that all of us, (non-privileged) white males included, are discriminated against compared to the privileged class. and, in some ways, you could see the "standard" discriminations as mere distraction to keep our attention diverted from the privileged/non-privileged discrimination.

if we did wake up to this distinction, we might see that ALL of us non-privileged people are all on the same side after all.