Forget working 80 hours a week for the last 10 years. I've gotten as far as I have because I'm a white male American. I wish I would have known that 10 years ago. I woulda done a lot more partying. This struggling to survive and get ahead stuff is for suckers
Where do I sign up for my white male privilege handouts?
I suppose its just blind luck or "the system" that made you a cynical asshole instead of someone busting his ass to learn all he can about the world so that he can contribute something of value?
In popular discourse, "racist" is synonymous with "the-worst-thing-ever" because most real people believe in the first definition. They associate it with things like concentration camps, racial slurs, and vigilante violence.
Social Marxists are pulling a nice propaganda coup by using the popular term "racist" with their different class struggle definition. But once their definition gains ground, they will find that they have defeated themselves and that nobody cares about racism anymore.
How much do you think the man on the street cares that a disproportionate number of ruby experts are white/Asian? Or that most movie actors are white? Or that "nude" toned makeup in historically European countries matches white people's skin? Not a quantum of care will be given.
You'll find a lot of good ideas (and some bad ones) from Republicans if you hang out in right-wing circles. If you get your news from left-leaning outlets, then they are caricaturish bad guys. Of course, the same is true in the other direction.
It's funny that you mention this. In most American states, you don't even need ID to vote. We take vote security much less seriously than other countries.
I have never heard an academic in a race-studies, Sociology, or Communications department seriously grapple with criticisms of the "systemic racism" hypothesis for the white/black performance gap, and nor have I heard any other hypothesis offered. Students and professors outside those departments dutifully recite the same theories. As far as I can see, academia is a den of groupthink and cultural Marxism when it comes to such issues.
"Underrepresentation does not equal racism" contradicts the academic party line ("systemic racism"). If a white person said something like that, they would get a lecture in "denying privilege". If an asian person said it, he would be ignored.
But I agree that the author's way of thinking is far healthier for any given individual. Which is why the author is so successful.
What is the evidence that this is true? How much would it cost? (Coal provides ~30% of US electric power. It's not a trivial inconvenience to shut that down)
As I recall, environmentalists went all doom-and-gloom after hurricane Katrina, and that was followed by many years of below average hurricane activity. How many hurricanes per year could we prevent by spending, say, 10% of our GDP on carbon reduction? How many more hurricanes occur today than 100 years ago?
No, it's absolutely fuckjng deplorable when a government stops the free flow of goods, services, and information to protect archaic business practices.
Imagine if people could sell goods and services to each other without the resident government doing a quality check. What a hell that would be.
Wait a second, is this a certified political opinion that I'm replying to? Do you have your Internet politics license? I don't want to be cheated arguing with a low-quality commenter.
I'm glad you've found a pocket of the company that you enjoy working in. But the CEO is a sociopath, and that's bound to cause some trickle-down unpleasantness in the future. It already has, the company just changed its ways when it got bad press.
The marginal utility of college is declining. Our near ancestors got a lot out of a college degree. The author is noticing that we won't get nearly as much.
Becoming familiar with dozens of esoteric APIs that may change next month is not the fun kind of learning. The practice of programming is full of a lot more busywork than it looks like from the outside.
If the western world (re)colonized all the dysfunctional nations run by warlords that prevent relief from getting to people that need it, that would be very helpful. Strangely, nobody seems to consider this solution. Imposing order and good government on areas with pathologically bad governments seems obviously good.
Where do I sign up for my white male privilege handouts?