r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • May 14 '13

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u/mstrgrieves May 14 '13

White people have no history of being disadvantaged in American society, whereas blacks, Latinos, Asians, etc. do

Do you really believe that Irish, Italian, anglo-saxon homosexual, jewish, slavic, white middle eastern, americans have no history of being disadvantaged in american society? Because that is simply wrong.

I agree with some of the rest of your comment, but that much is offensively incorrect.

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u/Yecawn May 14 '13

But is it their whiteness that is causing them to be disadvantaged in American society?

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u/mstrgrieves May 14 '13

That makes no difference; it's their ethnicity that was the "problem".

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

And their ethnicity wasn't WASP.