I'm not really sure what reductio ad absurdum means (and I've yet to find a good latin-English translator online) so I'm going to have to put the last question aside.
I have no intent of defining anything. To properly answer your essay would involve writing a research paper with all the quotes and statistics you seem to demand, and frankly, I've not the time to do that for a comment in a journal entry. Furthermore, it's doubtful it would make you change your mind in any way, which then seems like a bit of a waste of my time, no?
All I am saying is that the system is rotten, has been rotten, and there's no easy way of fixing it. But we white people do still benefit from it and it seems to be wise to acknowledge that if for nothing else than the actual verbal acknowledgement is a step toward a truly color-blind society. Speaking as a woman, it sure would be nice if white men ever got around to acknowledging that they do make more money and have more social status in general than women, instead of snarling at "feminists" and identifying as Angry White Men. You can't focus on the problem if you can't speak about it. Most white men choose not to. Unfortunately, silence won't make any of the problems go away.
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I have no intent of defining anything. To properly answer your essay would involve writing a research paper with all the quotes and statistics you seem to demand, and frankly, I've not the time to do that for a comment in a journal entry. Furthermore, it's doubtful it would make you change your mind in any way, which then seems like a bit of a waste of my time, no?
All I am saying is that the system is rotten, has been rotten, and there's no easy way of fixing it. But we white people do still benefit from it and it seems to be wise to acknowledge that if for nothing else than the actual verbal acknowledgement is a step toward a truly color-blind society. Speaking as a woman, it sure would be nice if white men ever got around to acknowledging that they do make more money and have more social status in general than women, instead of snarling at "feminists" and identifying as Angry White Men. You can't focus on the problem if you can't speak about it. Most white men choose not to. Unfortunately, silence won't make any of the problems go away.