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From the "no shit, Sherlock" files. "Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged" 1/ theconversation.com/reverse-disc...

aug 20, 2025, 3:01 pm • 36 12

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'Reverse discrimination' is illogical, and I grind my teeth whenever I see that term. It's like 'white slavery' - it's a tautologically flawed concept. White supremacy (or the fantasy of it) is reinforced by using these terms, and it's widely accepted. maddening.

aug 20, 2025, 3:42 pm • 9 3 • view

The "bluster" over DEI is the fact that white people weren't "allowed" to treat brown people like second-class, second rate citizens. They handicap people and then get mad that they can't lie that the results are based on their own merit.

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2/ Growing up in whiteburbia, I can't think of when I didn't hear this crap. Even as my parent's accepted offer on a house somehow "mysteriously" got rescinded.

Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The first is that discrimination against people of color is a thing of the past. The second is that DEI policies and practices discriminate against white people – especially white men – in what’s sometimes called “reverse discrimination.”

aug 20, 2025, 3:01 pm • 10 1 • view

Lissen, they tried to buy us out when we first moved to the town I grew up in - and when I say it was WHITE WHITE...oof. Daddy said '3 million and we're out' - so, I grew up in a town that reminded me every day that even if we were rich, bringing revenue to the town, we were resented and unwanted.

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3/ "But polling data shows otherwise. A 2025 Pew survey found that 70% of white Americans think Black people face “some” or “a lot” of discrimination in general, and roughly two-thirds say the same of Asian and Hispanic people."

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4/ Pew-Pew: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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5/ "The ‘hard’ numbers show persistent privilege"

For example, federal agencies have documented racial disparities in income for decades, with white Americans, as a group, generally outearning Black and Latino Americans. This is true even when you control for education. When the Census Bureau looked at median annual earnings for Americans between 25 and 64 with at least a bachelor’s degree, it found that Black Americans received only 81% of what comparably educated white Americans earned, while Latinos earned only 80%. Asian Americans, on the other hand, earned 119% of what white people earned. These gaps persist even when you hold college major constant. In the highest-paying major, electrical engineering, Black Americans earned only 71% of what white people did, while Latinos earned just 73%. Asian Americans, in contrast, earned 104% of what white people earned. In the lowest-paid major, family and consumer sciences, African Americans earned 97% of what white people did, and Latinos earned 94%. Asian Americans earned 117% of what white people earned. The same general pattern of white income advantage existed in all majors with two exceptions: Black people earned more in elementary education and nursing.

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6/6 But data and facts will never get through to those whose entire ethos is "Black people unqualified" and white mediocrity is excellence.

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This is a 2022 look at disparities among racial groups in the www.epi.org/publication/...

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For the whites...

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