Re:What happened in 2017
by Swizec on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:09PM
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> less than 1% who have a position of influence
A big part of “We are the 99%” is, surely, the realization that less than 1% of all people have those coveted positions of power. If they followed the same distribution as the population as a whole, which they don’t, something like 61.3% of that 1% would be white, 13% would be black etc.
The distribution is heavily skewed towards white because for historic and cultural reasons it’s much easier for white people to get into that group.
> it’s not a collective group
Welcome to *ism 101. That’s when the properties of a minority are expanded to the whole group based on a trait. All white men are terrible, all black people wear saggy sweatpants, all hispanics clean toilets, and all white women want to speak to the manager Etc
A big part of “We are the 99%” is, surely, the realization that less than 1% of all people have those coveted positions of power. If they followed the same distribution as the population as a whole, which they don’t, something like 61.3% of that 1% would be white, 13% would be black etc.
The distribution is heavily skewed towards white because for historic and cultural reasons it’s much easier for white people to get into that group.
> it’s not a collective group
Welcome to *ism 101. That’s when the properties of a minority are expanded to the whole group based on a trait. All white men are terrible, all black people wear saggy sweatpants, all hispanics clean toilets, and all white women want to speak to the manager Etc