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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I think you're full of shit.
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Better than that you have to reexamine your world view, I guess.
Look, I'm not saying that minorities and women don't still get shafted. They certainly do. All I can do is (a) try to change that, (b) try to show my offense about that, (c) express my ideas about how I think that things should be and (d) not really think about race when I consider people as people, and only think about gender because I want to nail some girl, and not some guy, and because there's comraderie in male friendships that intergender friendships don't have.
That's all I can really do. I think it sucks that people still get shafted. Really, even though you probably think that I am a racist bastard, I do. But deal with it through societal change, and through lawmaking and through progressive opinions. Don't harp about poor little you and how you have it so bad. If anything, harp about how other black guys have it bad, because of education, employment, the criminal justice system, and every other way that black guys get fucked. Even though you may have been profiled, or experienced some racism, when you are suddenly an expert on the woes of a group you are a part of, even though, by all appearances, you are a upper-middle class, happy, intelligent and well-employed guy, it just smacks of sanctimony.
