If you don't eat the rich, they eat you
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But I thought all those illegal immigrants were stealing American jobs while getting welfare and voting.
And they are stupid, lazy, moochers.
Those damned hard working but somehow still stupid lazy moochers!
Who cares? This country has to be filled only with wypipo and if the unwashed masses have to starve to do it, that is just a price the super-rich are willing to have you pay.
What is wypipo?
Edit: well that conversation went well, so glad I asked 😅
It's a phonetic slur for "white people". Try to say it.
I didn't know we needed such a word.
You can call me whatever you want, but I will adjust my expectations of anyone using skin color based slurs to generalize people - regardless of the color.
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Call me when you get strung up to be hung by a sheriff calling you wypipo. Then you can call it a slur.
The cop called me "a destitute" the last time I was arrested. Does this count?
Nope.
And, the whole ordeal would have been worse if you were black. It seems you're struggling with the juxtaposition of white privilege and being treated like a poor person. All whiteness gets you is "better treatment than the exact same scenario if you were not white". That's it. It does not confer any guarantee of good treatment or success or wealth or anything at all. It confers only that one specific thing I pointed out.
I'm sure you are being treated poorly, I'm sure you've got it bad. Whiteness only gets most people "first slave" picked for the "good slaving". Unfortunately, historically that's enough to divide and conquer.
You're describing American racism, and rightfully so, because wypipo is also an American reference to the privileged white American stereotype.
I'm not American, which is why I question the need for all these distinctions in the simple concept of hating everyone outside your own tribe.
This is a rhetiricical question though. You need these words because you're all American, and a majority of you hate everyone outside your own tribe.
The rest of the world is well more racist. It's just also more monocultural. I guarantee you that any NB country that had to deal with a sudden influx of 20% of the population as black skinned people, or 40% of the population as a different, NB race, they would handle it far worse than 2020s America.
Yes. I was describing American racism, as you said, it was the topic at hand, but we can change it to two different black skinned cultures, or two different Asian cultures, and functionally get the same result in the right country. In the right place and time you can have Han privilege or Hutu privilege.
There is no need to hate everyone outside of your own tribe, you are correct, but you didn't come to this conclusion because you are outside of America. You came to this conclusion because you are a good person.
My main grip on this is that the sub-destinctions of racism makes it harder to deal with.
We have plenty of racism here in Scandinavia, but it's only a knee deep trench. People are racist or they're not. The racists hate the immigrants. They don't care if the immigrants are black, middle eastern, asian or even white people from the town next over.
Once we start accepting the words that distinguish the out-groups, it only makes the trench deeper and more difficult to get out of, because then people can partially accept one group over the other, which maintains the overall racism.
"Whiteness" doesn't really refer to skin colour. Who is and isn't considered "white" (a surprisingly modern concept) is a often a rather complicated point of regional culture.
I've heard whiteness be described as "proximity to power", which seemed pretty accurate
Coming soon: no more honky tonk tones for the Irish and Italians, back to the undesirable heap with them.
Would this be algorithm speak though? I've seen in social media spell "wyt", which is probably to circumvent the algorithm censorship.
It's from twitter or something so possibly.
According to the following explanation, it's not really racist, but only used against the bad white people. I swear I've heard this before somewhere..
https://blackgirlinmaine.com/racial-and-cultural/why-people-must-you-misunderstand-wypipo/
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Show me on this doll where the sun touched you. I know it's hard, but this is the only way we can stop him from hurting others.
Something is going on very strange. Last month the economy added 172,000 jobs while unemployment remained at 4.3%.
The way that number is derived is hilariously old fashioned and error prone. They don't change it so they can plausibly put out month after month big job gains then quietly adjust it down later. Trump has been doing this the whole time with neutral to amazing job reports in most of the past 18 months yet, somehow, over those 18 months job gains are near zero.
It's also worth noting that the official unemployment rate has been unbelievably stable. As in, no one should believe it. Workforce participation has dropped from 62.5% to 61.8% during Trump2 telling us unemployment has gone up, but they're massaging one number to make another look good.
Oh the added jobs are people doing second jobs or even third jobs. Because some of the working class people I know in the US. Are all looking for a second job. My mechanic friend after his shift at the garage drives Uber late till 11pm. Another store manager friend, goes and works as a cashier for a bodega for 4 hours, because he needs that cash to just survive.
That's how they're adding the jobs.
Where is the credible source data you trust for any of this downstream analysis? All collecting/reporting agencies have been corrupted or defunded at this point.
Maddening to see people doing things like citing the current CDC for medical information - we're seven layers deep into hell at this point. You're clinging to an illusory normalcy, and sharing it with others to comfort yourself as society actively burns down around you.
Or whatever.
They are cooking the books but also they don't count people that have given up as unemployed, regardless of age.
The number of people they use in that kind of calculation is constantly shifting.
If you add 100k jobs, while also having 100k people entering the demographic, then the % is gonna stay the same
The break even rate for unemployment is complicated and shifts arrive. Immigration, deaths, Labor force participation, who gets counted as employed or unemployed, etc all factor in.
Ballpark 150k is about 0.1% of employed Americans currently.
They are fucking with the numbers though.