Okay, conservative "whites" ... if you're afraid of becoming the "minority"

[zbdent]

(this argument confuses me ... I'd have to get the details to be sure, but if one group is 45 percent, and ALL THE OTHER MINORITY GROUPS TOTAL 55 PERCENT, but no one "minority" group totals more than 15 percent or so, how is the overwhelming majority a "minority"?)

then get busy having litters of kids ... I mean, if you're a conservative white male, isn't it your belief that having babies was the sole reason why women are on this Earth?

[lizerdbits]

1. I think they only see "white" and "not white"

All non whites are equally lower according to some, I don't think some people differentiate once they see you're not white.

[Warpy]

7. I get into trouble around here occasionally

Because I DON'T share the prejudices people are used to. This is an overwhelmingly Hispano part of town and I honestly have no clue when it comes to the prejudice northern Europeans are supposed to have. They don't quite know what to do with me until they know me better.

Bigots tend to flock together, to reinforce each other's distorted thinking so that it looks like common sense. People here expect me to share the prejudices of white Angelenos or white Texans and I've got a very different set of them than they do.

There's nothing like moving to an area with different prejudices to make you realize just how stupid yours were all along. Too bad the experience isn't mandatory.

[AzDar]

2. Has it occurred to you that this post is racist in and of itself? Sweeping

generalizations and tired stereotypes are offensive no matter to whom they are directed.

[zbdent]

9. Yes, it did occur to me that this post is racist in itself - because it was based

on the premise of the Repuke talking point - that "whites" are going to become the "minority" in this country - despite the fact that, in another post on this thread, the overwhelming majority of this nation is, ahem, white ...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. I think your figures are way, way off.

In the last Census, those who are "White Alone" (which includes Hispanic Americans, apparently), number 215 million out of 288 million. Of the 215, Hispanic Americans number 44 million, leaving 171 million white people out of 288. That's 59% by my calculations.

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFPeople?_submenuId=people_10&_sse=on

[zbdent]

8. I figured my numbers were way off, but using the usual rightie argument

of "whites" becoming a minority in this country, I was overly generous on the part of the non-white minorities in my initial post. I knew it wasn't accurate. I appreciate the clarification of my numbers, which further makes my point.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Ahem!

You said: "...if you're a conservative white male, isn't it your belief that having babies was the sole reason why women are on this Earth?"

If that's the way conservative white males truly think, they'd best re-think. With the advances in the medical world, someone (probably a woman) might come up with a way to shift the "experience" of child birth to the male population, for no better reason than to watch those conservative white males' reactions. All things are possible. JAT, with tongue in cheek.

[frustrated_lefty]

5. Why bother?

It's easier just to let you breed and then send your kids off to war, no?

[Jed Dilligan]

6. You would benefit by learning the word "plurality." nt

[zbdent]

11. So, the opposite of "minority" is "plurality"?

I thought the opposite of "minority" was "majority" ...

and then, the "plurality" of the votes - heard that word tossed around a lot when Repukes tried to claim that Clinton won neither the 1992 nor 1996 elections, because he never had the "plurality" of the vote ...

[Kelly Rupert]

12. Nobody claimed that.

Clinton won '92 and '96 because he had a plurality. They were complaining that he only had a plurality, and never a majority.

[zbdent]

13. Okay, my error on the 92 & 96 "plurality" statements - but -

so, if "whites" become 49.9 percent of the population, they are still the largest group of "ethnics" - because the other 50.1 percent is made up of a bunch of ther "ethnic" groups ...

still, that means that the "whites" haven't been doing their jobs ... keeping up the pace of squirting out kids to keep the "majority" from the other mix ... of course, having to feed that many mouths on one person's salary (wife having to keep home to tend the kids and incubate more) would put them on the fast track to being totally ignored by the conservative Repukes they back ...

[Jed Dilligan]

15. It just means

the largest group where there is no true majority.

[RB TexLa]

10. Threads like this make me love my racial status

[treestar]

14. Or be in favor of laws assuring protections to minorities

If you're in danger of being one, then why not support affirmative action? You may actually need it one day. Just one example.