Warp wrote:
>   To multiculturalists racism, ethnicism, xenofobia, islamofobia and
> basically everything is "racism". It's an umbrella term for everything
> related to how white men behave towards non-white people.

While many white men feel marginalised by these things, one must 
consider the very real notion that, for much of recorded history, males 
in general (and white males in the Western societies) *have* abused 
their positions of power, causing what is effectively a kneejerk 
reaction once that reaction is acknowledged as even slightly valid, and 
growing as acceptance of it spreads.

However.

We're pretty much all the same, us humans, all petty and greedy and 
otherwise not very nice towards each other, so you get the same sorts of 
things happening when you swap who's in any particular power role.

The vast majority of the world was, is, and will never really be 'in 
control', so there's no use b'awwwing over someone else calling the 
shots if you personally were never in the position to do it anyways. 
Feel slighted because of your gender/race/ethnicity/sexual 
identity/toothpaste preference?  Don't worry, just about everyone else 
has things just as bad, and that's just how things are.  In time, 
someone from 'your group' will rise to power, and...it won't change much 
of anything for all the other members of the group.  Their close friends 
will probably experience some benefits, and there might be spillover 
into the law to give your type a break, but big-picture-wise, it's 
status quo.  Noise will be made by some, and the squeaky wheel will get 
its grease, but only until it stops squeaking too loudly compared to the 
others.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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