Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > Rather, count, for instance, the middle and upper class black kids who
> > get free rides to colleges based on their race while poor white kids
> > just as capable are rejected specifically because they are white.
> >
>
> This discussion just seems silly. It's extremely hard to swallow this line
> that white males are underprivileged in the US. In Australia, it seems to me
> that being male and white is the easiest thing in the world. Maybe things
> are substantially different there?
The US is FAR more diverse than Australia, and we've suffered under 35
years of a welfare system that is rigged to subsidize ANYONE BUT a while
male who is poor, unemployed, and/or homeless. In order for a white male
to get aid, he has to be either gay, physically disabled or mentally
retarded/insane to meet the litmus tests of the bureaucracy.
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