Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?

Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by jimbokun on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:29PM (#28541161)

If you are provoked by something as innocuous as "It's OK to be white" you really need to re-examine your commitment to tribalism and dedication to going out of your way to find things to be offended by on the Internet. (Or attached to telephone poles.)

Which was clearly the goal of this experiment, to show how quickly and vehemently people over react to anything that seems to deviate slightly from their personal ideology, no matter how slight.

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Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by stnmtn on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:36PM (#28542026)

I think you're dodging my main message. Of course it's ok to be white, I said that very very clearly in my comment I think, right?

The thing is, you have to see who is using and spreading that message. When it's alt-right people, you can assume malicious intent when they use it.

If someone who is not clearly alt-right says it, I wouldn't even think twice as that's literally meaningless, but you have to acknowledge how they are trying to use it as a dogwhistle

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