White Privilege

HFNY said:

Anything I ever do, accomplish, or achieve is because I am white and / or privileged...and I feign feeling guilty about it but secretly love it.

#whiteguilt

This is only true if you are Macklemore

HFNY said:

Anything I ever do, accomplish, or achieve is because I am white and / or privileged...or at least so I've been told.

What we are told these days by the clueless denizens of American myth is nothing more than antebellum. It's way past time for most of us to move on while we hurry and wait for the stupid and unwise to catch up riding the thread worn whitewalls they road in on.

There's probably something to it in rare cases, but 99% of the time the people whining about it ignore things like hard work, creativity, iniative etc. and focus on making everyone who fails a victim.

I'm way more worried about income inequality and a lack of upward mobility.

I'm convinced that outside of small pockets of this country (and most of those pockets are generally insignificant in the grand scheme of things), race isn't an issue except to those that want to make it an (alleged) issue.

It doesn't matter what your skin color is, what your religious beliefs are, or what your sexual orientation is. If you are willing to put in the work, make sacrifices along the way, and make your chosen path a significant enough priority in your life, you can achieve tremendous success.

I see/hear a lot of comments about the unemployment rate. Has anybody ever stopped to think about why there is such unemployment?

Many people coming out of undergraduate programs struggle to find jobs upon graduating. Has anybody ever stopped to think about what the underlying issues are with the job skills that are required by our professional environment versus the skills that most undergraduates have upon graduating?

I read something the other day that the unemployment rate for those with Masters Degrees is in the neighborhood of 3% (even for those with TCU MBAs). Has anybody ever stopped to think why this class of worker is more desired upon our business community than other workers?

We like to make a lot of excuses as a society. It's what drives a lot of these discussions. We like to make simplistic answers that point the finger. We hate as a society asking tough questions that demand tough answers. We don't necessarily like hearing the truth because it can be hurtful to many.

The world is changing. The skill sets required to operate in this world are changing. If you don't have the skills to compete in that world, it's not like people are going to just give you a hand out because you are entitled to it. Not even Pat Haden is that fucking stupid.

MikeDamone said:

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

unfrozencaveman said:

Ben Haggerty. Mixing rhymes of white guilt along w/ faggotry. This is popular in USA, no?

You're really fucking stupid if you think Macklemore's music is a product of white guilt.

It's noted you didn't comment in the faggotry.

Macklemore is a savvy businessman and realized the potential for a song about his uncle being gay during this whole fag rights era. The song blew up and he got himself some grammys and millions more dollars than you or I will see in our lifetimes. Good for him. Haters gonna hate.

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

There's probably something to it in rare cases, but 99% of the time the people whining about it ignore things like hard work, creativity, iniative etc. and focus on making everyone who fails a victim.

I'm way more worried about income inequality and a lack of upward mobility.

Income inequality and upward mobility? You obviously majored in liberal arts. Holy fuckall

Bingo, and both are continually getting worse.

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

There's probably something to it in rare cases, but 99% of the time the people whining about it ignore things like hard work, creativity, iniative etc. and focus on making everyone who fails a victim.

I'm way more worried about income inequality and a lack of upward mobility.

Income inequality and upward mobility? You obviously majored in liberal arts. Holy fuckall

Bingo, and both are continually getting worse.

Speaking of majors, an article in the UWAA magazine last year (also in The Seattle Times) reported that companies and corporations in western Washington state were failing to fill approximately 37,000 openings for tech degreed engineering, math, and science majors. The state's colleges and universities have never been able to graduate enough BS degrees to even come close to filling the tech jobs available probably going all the way back to the startup of Boeing..... and have traditionally made up the slack by recruiting techs from all over the USA, Europe, Asia, and even the Third World, except for a few places such as Kansas where science in public schools is banned or shunned.

But now it seems there are few techs available from traditional out-of-state sources. In response to the dire need, a group of local companies have combined with the UW to raise financing for expansion of engineering and science colleges and degree programs and to organize a lobbying effort led by Bill Gates Sr. to pry public money out of state politicians and taxpayers who have their heads stuck where the sun of knowledge never shines. No offense to liberal arts majors, but too many of you are avoiding BS programs required to fill high paying tech jobs, most of which by the way are one hell of a lot of fun. I can only presume this is because of the difficulty and hard work associated in classroom mythology with that evil Godless word...... science.

Blame it on Obama.

bananasnblondes said:

This thread really sucks ass

You have bad manners. Did your mother not wash your mouth out with feces when you were growing up?

HFNY said:

Anything I ever do, accomplish, or achieve is because I am white and / or privileged...or at least so I've been told.

Wasnt this the last title of Derricks book?