can lead to rage-envy.
Might be an uncommon opinion, but I am a firm believer that envy is the primary factor leading to different populations in the US hating each other. Envy leads to feels of inferiority, which leads to hatred of others better than you and desire to bring them down. One of the most natural human emotions and incredibly destructive.
And it really harms people of their group who deserve to be there because nobody can tell who got in by merit and who got in through affirmative action. Progressives make all of this fuss about studies that show “black” sounding names on resumes get fewer callbacks. Personally I think there’s probably a large class issue there beyond race (somehow I doubt Bubba or Billy-Bob would do well either)
Exactly, this is something that I have seen brought up before and has never been addressed by any study that I am aware of. Employers dislike names that are associated with low class people. That means these, shall we say "unique" black names, but it would also apply to Billy Bob, Brandy, and other similar low-class white names as well.
affirmative action and diversity policies make this behavior ECONOMICALLY RATIONAL. A black guy with Harvard and McKinsey on his resume isn’t the same as an asian guy with Harvard and McKinsey on his resume. He just isn’t.
Precisely, when an institution no longer has any inherent merit, you will need to use other means to sort through the hundreds of different job applicants. This creates a very precarious situation for people with parents that chose weird names but the kid is actually very smart. There is always going to be a sneaking suspicion among the college graduate and by the employer that the Ivy league education wasn't really earned. It is just an overall unethical policy against whites and Asians and one that hurts those it intends to help by flunking them out with expensive Ivy league price tag student loans that they'll struggle to pay back because they don't have a college degree.
It’s hard to say. It does seem like the dem worshiping of black people has started to alienate other groups, but some of them either buy into it themselves or use it cynically as a bludgeon against white people, who they view as their only real competition
Yes, we saw a lot of that with the hilarious (in a dark way) blaming of black-on-Asian violence on white supremacy. I have no clue if your average Asian citizen actually buys into that gobbledygook, but their community leaders still push it to keep the Democrat coalition of the fringes together. The attacks on Asians (many of them old and defenseless) are also probably driven by the aforementioned envy because even with intense discrimination, they are still lagging behind Asians by wide margins.
I think ultimately the diversity stuff is something that elites love but the actual people don’t (even black people barely support or oppose affirmative action based on the poll) so on net it will probably be a drag for democrats for a long time.
The polls say that. I'm not entirely sure I believe that because the average voter of all races aren't super informed on the negative impact of such policies. It seems like Hispanics aren't huge fans, even though they do benefit from it to some extent. They seem to be fairly socially conservative, which is why Democrat floundering on economic issues is throwing them into the GOP's arms.
I mean look at the OP. I know I’m more aware of this stuff than most but I would NEVER support the type of people who do this. It’s fucking disgusting and ghoulish, I would hate it no matter what group it targeted and I know there are many good people in every race who would agree
Maybe my exposure to online opinions and pessimism are influencing me too much, but I don't know that this is true, especially among college reeducated people. There have been plenty of white libs pushing for old white people to be (basically) killed with 'equitable' COVID policies, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if a plurality of benefitting groups followed the same train of thought.
I am infuriated that America is in a place where an ad like this can be run on the air without one lie in it, but I am at least relieved that they are willing to point it out and fight against it. As more whites are overtly attacked for being white, more of them will identify with that- at least the ones that aren't broken by self-hatred.
I honestly think that different racial groups could get along and instinctively do want to get along- and getting rid of Affirmative Action is a good way of speeding that up.
