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April 14th 2016, 06:44 AM
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Also, I put a space in g ay to get around the swear filter. Who made g ay a swear word?!

That hearkens back to the day when fabulous was frequently used as an insult. I agree it doesn't make much sense now... it's, like, totally fabulous.

Shevek: You seem to be saying that because women/other races hold fewer positions of power than white men, all those groups are being discriminated against. But that conclusion would only make sense if we assume they all start from the same position. That an equal amount of women to men want to get into politics, but are shot down by the evil patriarchy somewhere down the line. That black people have as well-educated parents as white people and are therefore just as likely to rise to high positions, if only the white slavers didn't whip them into submission. (IIRC, the educational level of the parents is the single biggest indicator of what level of education the child will achieve. Also, the idea of 'white guilt' seriously needs to stop.)

But that's not the case. Women and men are NOT identical: 50% of women will never be garbage truck drivers, and 50% of men will never be nurses, unless we force it to be that way, which is an injustice in itself. (Like female quotas in universities, or race quotas in workplaces.) The women that do choose to go into politics seem to have as much of a chance as men do (aside: that psychopath Hillary Clinton is doing scarily well in the US elections), and as far as I can see, there's no one brushing them off based on their gender. Maybe still in the 60s, but not today; being so much as accused of sexism can be a political death sentence to a man.

Same with races. What obstacles does a black person face in university that a white person doesn't...? If anything, I think women and racial minorities have advantages over regular white guys, because we want more of them in positions of power, and incentivize them to go down that path.

Discrimination in the past certainly still has some effects on the world today, though. The fact that blacks average much poorer jobs than whites is probably one of those things. (Either that, or blacks really are genetically less suited for education. I'm not counting this possibility out, since there doesn't appear to be any credible research on the subject.) It's a shame that this is the case, but I think it will even out in the decades to come. Discriminating against whites by establishing quotas or showing preferential treatment to minorities out of fear of appearing racist isn't the way to go, IMO. Race and gender should be null factors, not factors for or against anybody.