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That said, you're male, and so that's a little like a white person claiming that the best way to deal with the issue of slavery and Jim Crow laws is just to take a comical view of it, and that blacks really ought to quit being such goddamned buzzkills and develop a sense of humor already.
Or like a gentile joking about the holocaust and being unable to understand why Jews have to be so danged serious about everything all the frickin' time. Etc, etc.
We need to understand that these are still sensitive issues to many people, especially older people who actually lived through these dark times.
Oh...and wait...I dont mean to get all spun up here...but thats pretty much BULL****. As a 'male' I have worked 2 and 3 jobs to provide for my family and change things for my family my whole life. I had to pay for school without the special compensations and opportunites. I had to endure appeasement acts in the military watching incompetent womena nd minorities get promoted in the name of social justice. Want to see appeasement acts in operation? Look at every soldier of the year banquet. Does it fix the disparity? No...but it allows people to say...look at us...we arent racist or sexist biased. Meanwhile no real change occurs at senior and management levels. The mid to lower income white male didnt create the problem...we just have deal with both the continuance of the problem and the socital politically correct attempts to correct the problem.
I wasnt born into what anyone might call an intact family. Ive had to deal with my **** the same as any and everyone else. I grew up in the south...Ive seen both sides...believe me...and try fitting in when you are mixed race and lower income growing up in the south of the 60's and 70's.
Sorry...Im REALLY fine and very comfortable with what I have done with my life. Im just a little pissed that when they were handing out those magical mythical silver spoons to all white (or mostly white) males that came with apparently a fast track to education and financial success that somehow I must have been out sick that day...