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Originally Posted by Deckard
So true. And the ironic thing is, it's the same people who are so quick to denounce and sneer at the victim mentality of women, Muslims, African-Americans, etc and put it all down to the great liberal conspiracy. It's more than a little telling that, so often, these are people who are curiously more infuriated by silly but well-meant examples of political correctness than by the longstanding and deep-seated discrimination that political correctness (however clumsily) seeks to address. I can't help it, I just feel a deep loathing for anyone who prioritizes in that way, who is more bothered by and motivated to harp on about "pandering to these minorities" and "PC-gone-mad" than by actual discrimination, by violence against women, by continued salary inequality, by racism in all its forms...
I'm going to stop there or I could fill the thread up with this particular rant!
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i had to laugh because you described it to a T. it's a group of people populated by white men who vehemently oppose anything that smacks of affirmative action, citing the "unfairness" of the "reverse racism" of these systems. nevermind the entrenched racial disparity that prevents equality from spontaneously manifesting *poof*. middle class white men who never had to doubt that they would be able to go to college and find a white collar job to support their 2.5 kids, bitching about the idea that maybe we could give others a leg up because "it's not fair."
i, too, could fill this thread with my rant.