So this is awkward, because white heterosexual males have much better than average access to brilliant lawyers.
No, rich people have access to lawyers.
The inference of your remark is that: "all people other than what straight males are not talented enough." This attitude is re-enforced by "positive" discrimination. Its also pretty condescending, and is far more harmful than "I dislike you because you are Insert slur"
Let me illustrate Discrimination:
"you only got in because you are <insert type here> here have the shit jobs, deliberately designed to trip you up"
"Despite us being actively hostile to you, we expect you to 'fit in' with the team"
"We are going to bully you, however its not bullying, as none of us get hurt, only you. Therefore its 'banter'"
Those three examples are actually not the preserve of minorities, they are applicable to every section of society.
However Positive Discrimination fails to tackle the root cause, as I said in my original post. The root cause is the lack of access to education, and ignorance of others.
I agree with this, and I think we are generally in agreement.
Rich people are mostly white males. For example, check your favourite image search for "rich people". Correlation is not causation but correlation is correlation.
The root cause is the lack of access to education, and ignorance of others.
I would prefer to say that the root causes are exactly what you said: "here, have the shit jobs", "us being actively hostile to you", "we are going to bully you".
Those problems are not being solved through education: schools, as they exist today, foster this type of behaviour. And so, well-educated adults are no less likely to exhibit this type of behaviour and are more likely to be in a position where it's a serious problem.
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You need to read my post again, very carefully.
No, rich people have access to lawyers.
The inference of your remark is that: "all people other than what straight males are not talented enough." This attitude is re-enforced by "positive" discrimination. Its also pretty condescending, and is far more harmful than "I dislike you because you are Insert slur"
Let me illustrate Discrimination:
"you only got in because you are <insert type here> here have the shit jobs, deliberately designed to trip you up"
"Despite us being actively hostile to you, we expect you to 'fit in' with the team"
"We are going to bully you, however its not bullying, as none of us get hurt, only you. Therefore its 'banter'"
Those three examples are actually not the preserve of minorities, they are applicable to every section of society.
However Positive Discrimination fails to tackle the root cause, as I said in my original post. The root cause is the lack of access to education, and ignorance of others.
I agree with this, and I think we are generally in agreement.
Rich people are mostly white males. For example, check your favourite image search for "rich people". Correlation is not causation but correlation is correlation.
I would prefer to say that the root causes are exactly what you said: "here, have the shit jobs", "us being actively hostile to you", "we are going to bully you".
Those problems are not being solved through education: schools, as they exist today, foster this type of behaviour. And so, well-educated adults are no less likely to exhibit this type of behaviour and are more likely to be in a position where it's a serious problem.