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Anti-White Racism as a Minority

#31
> elites ruling the world
> the privileged elites at the top

Who are these elites who "rule the world"? Blaming groups can be divisive and unproductive.

Are you referring to oligarchs like George Soros, who crashed the British pound as a social experiment? Epstein? Bezos? The Tech giants? They are influencers, sure, but not rulers. It's easy to go from conspiracy theories about elites to blaming entire races for our woes. Scapegoating groups is a slippery slope that never ends well. But we don't really have world-rulers who decide the quality of human life. Rather, we have debates about how to balance personal freedom, security and intervention.

In the US, since President Truman, nearly a billion people have been brought out of extreme poverty. Rather than scapegoating groups, we should be examining this success. For comparison, the UK, Canada and France lag behind, have higher inflation, less growth and higher cost of living. The Communist China of today uses a mixed market system and allows business ownership and enterprise, to compete with the West. The market has reduced misery.

On Ending Poverty:
www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-end-of-poverty
#32
@potterchess said in #31:
> Who are these elites who "rule the world"? Blaming groups can be divisive and unproductive.
>
> Are you referring to oligarchs like George Soros, who crashed the British pound as a social experiment? Epstein? Bezos? The Tech giants?
Nope. Com'on you're putting words in my mouth.

> For comparison, the UK, Canada and France lag behind, have higher inflation, less growth and higher cost of living.

As long as you are *** carefully avoid some metrics ***, but if you give a closer look the assessment may be different.

money.ca/life/parenting/raising-child-cheaper-canada-usa

>Having a child is expensive no matter where you live, but it’s far cheaper in Canada
>
>Overall, Canadians pay less out of pocket to have their babies and raise them to age 18. Thanks to paid parental leave, government subsidies, generous tax deductions, and free healthcare, families enjoy more financial security and support in Canada than they do in the States.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1342627/

The American health care system has the world's highest per capita costs and over 30 million citizens uninsured. The neighbouring Canadian system provides coverage for all basic medical and hospital services, at costs per capita that are about US$700 lower.
#33
That's (very ironic) cherry picking. Healthcare is merely a part of expenses.

Also, Canada does not have free healthcare. It's just charged a different way.

(Mind you, that's not to say that I like the current US healthcare system, which seems to be an experiment in combining the worst parts of privatized and public healthcare).
#34
To respond to the OP, I'm glad you feel that way and I agree as well. It is disturbing to see how racism has become accepted and infiltrates in particular left wing movements in the way it does. People don't see anything wrong with treating people as lesser based on their race, when that race is perceived as being in power.

If we just pause and think about that, the absurdity of it, and how deeply racist you have to be to think that makes sense. There is no such thing as referring to all people as a race, as a monolith, to begin with concerning anything outside of skin colour. That's the whole idea behind why racism is wrong, you can't generalize wealth or privilege on this single arbitrary marker, nor their skill or education level. To use @bfchessguy's example, of course the senate and maybe the house of representatives might have more white people. Does that mean ALL white people are therefore better off compared to their peers and should be treated this way? Does that justify the anecdote provided by the OP where the white people who were on suicide watch were forced to speak last out of shame for being white? Absolutely not. That is illogical to the extreme, and clearly unethical, especially when these people are already in such a fragile mental state.

It is frustrating beyond that, that somehow it is seen as the only solution to the problem. Like if certain people of say a certain religion are having their houses burned down disproportionately, the solution is not to burn down everyone's house. Yet that is exactly what the race-based solution is - lets discriminate against these groups so that there is an appearance of equality. Yet you haven't actually addressed or corrected for any of the underlying discrimination, you've only equalized it...I mean its completely insane. If some people have more money than others, should we make everyone poor as a solution and pretend everything is fixed?

Its just so much irrationality, so much immorality...and the worst part is how powerless you feel to change any of it. But at the very least its good that there are others who feel the same way, and hopefully if I ever do have wealth or some political influence I'd certainly be happy to do my part to reverse those sorts of trends.
#35
Is there any point in this thread, the guy who made it is offline for a week
#36
Divide and conquer. It's an old expression. For a reason.

Don't let anybody divide good people for his or her own purposes; horses are smart enough not to worry about the color of their coats and surely, we are at least as smart as they (even if we are not as strong or fast).

God bless each of us. And may we never disdain another for anything that doesn't involve his or her own actual bad character or bad behavior. It's best to focus on the ideals and good qualities and memories that we share, and there are plenty of those.

Racism of any kind isn't just immoral, it's genuinely foolish. We're all on the same long journey, from cradle to grave. And friends are never to be avoided for foolish reasons.
#37
@clousems said in #33:
> That's (very ironic) cherry picking. Healthcare is merely a part of expenses.
>
> Also, Canada does not have free healthcare. It's just charged a different way.
>
> (Mind you, that's not to say that I like the current US healthcare system, which seems to be an experiment in combining the worst parts of privatized and public healthcare).

Why are you concluding I pretended that Canada's Health System is free? What many Canadians are calling Free Healthcare is Universal Public Healthcare. Canadians do know they're paying taxes. And by the way if the health of loved ones is deteriorating they might be pretty happy to pay taxes and be living in a Society where everyone is given an opportunity to not die from curable health issues.

And I only pointed out that many studies comparing cost of living between the 2 countries are avoiding to include healthcare costs and pretend that Canada lags.
#38
We have free healthcare at the point of need...Sick of you health tourists from abroad who abuse our system. Rule Britannia!
#39
@HiramHolliday said in #38:
> We have free healthcare at the point of need...Sick of you health tourists from abroad who abuse our system. Rule Britannia!

Abusing?

As far as I know in 2020 those rules were
>Within England, free NHS hospital treatment is provided on the basis of someone being ‘ordinarily resident’. Being ordinarily resident is not dependent upon nationality, payment of UK taxes, National Insurance contributions, being registered with a GP, having an NHS number or owning property in the UK.
>[...]
>There are exemptions in place to protect the most vulnerable in society and for key services essential to public health. This ensures that urgent or immediately necessary treatment will always be provided, regardless of an individual’s ability or willingness to pay for that treatment.