The Like/Hate Thread

[Pinky]

i did read it, and the bits about choices was a cop out. the premise is that an uncontrollable factor is the overbearing determinate on the results of your life. saying that people can make choices that affect the outcome is only to dismiss criticism of the premise that achievement is had by luck of the draw.

no real argument is made about any given factor, only an insistance that straight white maledom is the key. of course, being male doesn't cause success. being white doesn't, either. nor being straight. but somehow when these things are put together it's a magic cocktail for easymode. the proof? straight white males are on average very prosperous compared to other demographics. that's not mentioned in what you posted, but its the cornerstone of the privilage argument.

and that's where it faills apart. different demographics have a wide variety of different choice patterns, collectively at a given time, collectively over time, and individually. it would be truly magical if different people from different situations who make different choices had equal or near equal results.

what the privilage believers don't want to admit is that straight white males are better off on average because on average they are better. i have a hard time believing that they sit around together basking in their straight white maleness, or business owners looking for SWM's as a solution to their operating problems. these superficial corrolations also fail to properly address why black people are arrested and incarcerated way beyond their population percentage, by claiming that its the system that's slanted against them rather than criminal behavior being part of so-called black culture. there are real substantial reasons for diverging results and they are not just skin deep.

edit: i liked dead island. i thought the graphics were interesting :[