Posted by cccp1014 on 5/3/2018 3:13:00 PM (view original):
Posted by tangplay on 5/3/2018 1:57:00 PM (view original):
Posted by cccp1014 on 5/3/2018 12:58:00 PM (view original):
I think the opportunities have been equalized but the culture needs amending. 70% single parent rate is unfathomable and unsustainable. I don't care what race you are. The Government needs to somehow not reward people who ask for assistance because they became a single parent. I don't know how to control that w/o taking away basic human rights in terms of having kids. Of course we need a license to drive and get married but to have kids...no rules.
That is the real issue here. The stereotype is that poor people not just African Americans, abuse the system and our Government just hands the monies to them. This is where the vitriol is coming from. There are of course many advantages and disadvantages. One being gender. Finally there is more equality and I am all for that as I have two daughters.
In terms of race, at least here in MA it is not a factor so I do not believe that being white gives me any privilege or advantage. But that is my POV. I do think that it is not healthy using terminology such as "white privilege". Being white is something I cannot control. Same as being tall.
Here's how you fix that, Boris. You stop promoting dumb abstinance-only programs and teach kids how to get consent and put on a damn condom! When you say 'sex is bad', you encourage kids to 'defy the man' and do it anyway - unprotected! Abstinance is perfectly fine, but when you don't teach kids ANYTHING other than 'sex is bad', you encourage stats like that. That's how you solve the teen parent and the single parent problem. Also, the drug and jail thing may feed that.... It all blends together.
Do you have any hard proof that a majority of people abuse the system, or is this just a hypothetical that, in reality, almost never happens. Like Voter Fraud. I know a lot of people that certainly don't abuse the system.
MA is pretty good about that but in other places it is worse. It isn't a bad thing to be white! This isn't demeaning to white people at all! White privledge and institutional racism are linked. Think of it as racism.
You said to think of white privilege as racism? So I am born racist because I am white?
You don't get to call me by my first name when you are too embarrassed to share yours. I told your dumbass ears that I am not sure what the solution is. It is not abstaining. Although it should be until you are of legal age. I think it is educating from early on that people need to graduate school and have a job and a partner before having unprotected sex.
I don't know how realistic that is.
http://www.welfareacademy.org/conf/papers/nathan_p.shtml
No, as institutional racism, where no one person has to be 'racist' per say to be discriminatory by nature.
I agree. My argument was not for abstaining, it was for removing abstinance-only education. We already are taught that. Trust me, I have been in school more recently than any of you.
That article is 20 years out of date and very speculative. Not solid proof or solid arguments.