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DeeDee D's avatar

What I find curious is how little white people respect themselves. If they believe they cannot keep their jobs or find a mate, they must think they are not as good as the immigrants they are so desperate to keep out. If they believe they are so easily replaced, then I suppose they dont think theyre good enough to compete w PoC? I tend to agree with them.

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

When it was the first woman this and the first woman that, men felt threatened that maybe they could not compete. If university degrees are any guide, it might be true. In the 2018-19 academic year about 74 men received a bachelor's degree for every 100 women. Even fewer men graduate with an associate or master's degree, relative to women. Now a woman being hired or appointed is so common as to be not newsworthy. Possibly the same dynamic with first PoC this and first PoC that. The resistance to a functional equal opportunity society suggests anxiety about ability to compete, and provides evidence of the persistence of systemic racism that the right insists went away with the passage of the Civil Right Act sixty years ago.

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