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Originally Posted by EvilPepe
Good point, and I agree to an extent. I probably shouldn't have used the term "special privilege". My point was more that the "majority" doesn't have to worry about racial issues as a minority group would, so their focus and grouping would be along different lines - sexuality, gender, age, class, profession, ect.
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in a way being male and white is like one of the worst things ever... i could not get one red cent in the financial aid department when i was trying to go to college.
but a buddy of mine whose father had the same job as my dad and about the same years of service at work as my dad, and (his mom worked where mine did not) was able to get a full ride. he was 'mixed' father was black, mother was white.
i asked if his ride was grades based and he told me no his grades were border line at best. he totally agreed it was because he was listed as black on the application forms.
several of my other friends are american indian... they got full rides, although they had to go to either oklahoma or kansas to get it. according to them as long as you could prove you are 1/8th american indian they get free medical care, and free schooling.
none of my friends nor their families had been oppressed none of them came from poor families. we were all middle-ish class families.
all of us were about the same grade wise. yet i had to take out tons of loans, my dad took out loans, and i worked 30 hours a week to afford to got to college.
my friends? didnt work... and didnt owe a cent when they graduated college.
i owed tens of thousands of dollars.
now tell me... who is getting the short end of the stick?
btw my other white male friend whose situation was the same as mine but he is 1 year older than me (im 35) is STILL paying on his student loans every month.
the only reason i am not is i cashed in my 401k years ago to help get rid of them and get some relief from the financial burden my student loans were putting on me.
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Just because you're in a racial majority doesn't mean that you should not be represented politically or that you should be denied advocacy. If it's "fair" to have a representative organization for other ethnicities to lobby for their constituents, why should you be excluded just because you're in the majority?
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i think eventually someone needs to point out the inequalities of being a white male.
i also think that the 'spirit' of some of these 'privileges' that has been set aside to help out has been lost.