Re:Being a Developer After 40
by shrewduser on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:26AM
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if i take a look at the data, by most measures asians and jews are much more privileged in america than other europeans.
but of course if people started talking about asians and jews the way they talk about white males the racist nature of their argument becomes all too apparent.
your useful idiot argument very well may be correct though.
You see, it is true that in the US the privileged are often white. But that's just noise in the data. Because most of the disadvantaged are also white, and male.
But by building up racial tensions in the lower classes with a fundamental attribution error -- those lower classes are divided -- and therefore, not much of a threat to those who are actually privileged.
This is the same tactic the ruling class has used for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.
Divide and conquer.