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Title: PLANET OF THE WHITE GUYS
Source: Time Magazine
URL Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982650-2,00.html
Published: Mar 13, 1995
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Post Date: 2010-11-14 13:11:31 by Googolplex
Keywords: Diversity, Affirmative Action
Views: 621
Comments: 28

Maybe it's easier for a woman to acknowledge this because subliminal prejudice hurts women too. Studies have shown, for example, that people are more likely to find an article convincing if it is signed by "Bob Someone" instead of, say, "Barbara Someone." It's just the brain's little habit of parceling reality into tidy equations, such as female=probable fluffhead. The truth is that each of us carries around an image of competence in our mind, and its face is neither female nor black. Hence our readiness to believe, whenever we hear of a white male losing out to a minority or a woman, that the white guy was actually more qualified. In Jesse Helms' winning 1990 campaign commercial, a white man crumples up a rejection letter, while the voice-over reminds him that he was "the best-qualified." But was he? Is he always? And why don't we ever hear a white guy worry out loud that his colleagues suspect he got the job-as white men have for centuries-in part because he's male and white?

It's a measure of the ambient racism that we find it so hard to believe that affirmative action may actually be doing something right: ensuring that the best guy gets the job, regardless of that guy's race or sex. Eventually, when the occupational hierarchy is so thoroughly integrated that it no longer makes sense for our subconscious minds to invest the notion of competence with a particular skin color or type of genitalia, affirmative action can indeed be cast aside like training wheels.

Meanwhile, aggrieved white men can console themselves with the gains their wives have made. Numerically speaking, white women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action, and because white women tend to marry white men, it follows that white men are, numerically speaking, among the top beneficiaries too. On this planet, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan may not have been able to figure that out yet, but most white guys, I like to think, are plenty smart enough.


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The white nationalist nightmare is that most white people are Diversity nuts.

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Studies have shown, for example, that people are more likely to find an article convincing if it is signed by "Bob Someone" instead of, say, "Barbara Someone."

That's silly. But I expect that from a woman writer. (ducks..)

First of all, I dont know anyone that discounts what someone says based on their sex. What matters is: do I agree or not, and why.

Second of all, I like affirmative action, and I am a white nationalist. Apefirmative action breeds incompetence, and I dont want a competent .gov or corporations. The more diversity the better. It hastens this empires demise. And the sooner it dies, the sooner we can rebuild, keeping in mind some hard learned lessons.

And the more whites that get passed over for niggers, simply because they are niggers, the more I like it, because that will wake whitey up to what the niggers are doing (through the kikes enabling them to do it).

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#6. To: PSUSA (#1) (Edited)

Numerically speaking, white women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action, and because white women tend to marry white men, it follows that white men are, numerically speaking, among the top beneficiaries too.

The point of the article is in the blurb I quote above.

The blurb illustrates one of many rationalizations white women use to justify their continued support for Diversity schemes, such as Affirmative Action.

White women, who are the majority of white people, support Diversity schemes because they are prime beneficiaries.

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#10. To: Googolplex (#6)

So far all of the data I've seen reports only on their sex (women), and not broken down by womens race. So women, according to the charts I've seen, seem to have received more benefit from AA. But it still needs to be broken down by race.

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