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Thanks. I hope I never hear anyone say that to me again. 😂

This will be my last response to you, as you’re not listening to my responses and pretty much just trying to talk over me to make your point that is tangentially related to mine.

I didn’t say I disagree. And on the bigger scale it IS rich vs poor, but one group of people got a head start on getting rich and the others didn’t.

If you can convince all the rich people to give up their money to the poor, by all means, go for it! I fully support that! But, until then, let’s not shit on minorities who are more likely to be poor in a system designed to keep them that way.

I’m thinking of starting a whole philosophy based around this analogy. We can call it race-ism. 🤔 Or… maybe not.

That’s a very common misconception.

Wealth is generational. What our parents have, influences what we have, and what our grandparents had influenced what our parents had.

Let’s jump back 150 years.

Plantation owner has Millions in cotton money. One of his slaves does not.

Plantation owner’s son is able to buy his own plantation and a few slaves. The slaves son, is a slave.

The white grandson uses his father’s cotton money and connections to attend an ivy league school, and become something besides a plantation owner. The black grandson, is no longer enslaved, but he’s still working the fields for pennies.

White great-grandson has a trust fund and blows most of it on drugs and women, but his last name gets him an executive position at a local business he doesn’t understand. Black great grandson is the first in his family to learn to read. He studies hard and gets a scholarship to a law school you never heard of. He does well enough, but nobody really wants a black lawyer.

I know that not all white people are spoiled billionaires. Hell, I know I’m currently worse off than a lot of black people, but that’s not their fault. There’s still 200+ years of racism that kept a lot of them down, even though many were able to rise above many white people. And Trump’s crusade to crush DEI is causing otherwise well meaning white people to look at those successful black people and question whether or not they are qualified. Maybe some aren’t. I know plenty of white people who got into jobs they weren’t qualified for, I’m sure that’s happened to every group. But, the secret racism that we are perpetuating is that we see a successful black person and think, are they only there because of DEI? BUT when we see a successful white person, we don’t question their qualifications until they start making mistakes.

When people aren’t racist anymore, we won’t need a law that says DON’T BE RACIST. But we aren’t there yet, and we are getting further from that point every time Trump says DEI.

Get a new axe. Probably some non perishable food and water.

I don’t think this is wrong, but it doesn’t force the perspective of “That guy got screwed.” The point of it all is to get people who are unconsciously doing/supporting racist things, say, “I never thought about it like that”

Those same people reading your version will immediately turn it into, “Some of those minorities are getting an unfair advantage!” Or “I was one of the white men who didn’t get an advantage”, (those don’t exist)

But it isn’t. That’s just changing the scenario to fit your own expectations.

The race began before any of us were born. WE DIDN’T SEE THE STARTING LINE. There has been no global reset. Nobody zeroed out the scores between then and now.

Tell me when black people were given enough money to make up for 200 years of making white men richer, or when racism was erased from the world, and I’ll consider that you might be even a little bit right.

It’s alright that you weren’t looking back, just take his word when he says he’s not as far ahead as he should be.

Imagine a hundred runners entering an insanely long footrace. Before the race starts, the official says that due to his complexion, one runner will start running at the second gunshot, and the other runners will begin at the first gunshot. The darker skinned runner contests, but those are the rules and if he wants to race, he must follow them.

BLAM

The palest runners are off and running while the other one anticipates the second gunshot. He patiently waits, but it doesn’t come. After ten minutes, the runner complains to the official, but he repeats that these are the rules, and if you just wait patiently, it’ll be your turn. After an hour the crowd is outraged by the injustice and begin to protest.

BLAM

The official fires the second shot in order to deescalate the situation and prevent the stadium from being torn apart. The runner is off and he is determined to gain as much ground as possible as the other runners.

At the end of the day, the runners meet up at a checkpoint to rest before the next section of the race. When they announce the official times, the darker skinned man is 50 minutes behind the other runners. He mentions to the officials that he had to wait an hour to start, and that he would have had a better time than many of them if they had started at the same time.

Fine, they say, not wanting another scene like they had at the starting line, “from now on, all runners start at the same time.” That’s great! So, can I deduct an hour from my time?

WHAT!? WE ALREADY CHANGED THE RULES TO MAKE IT EQUAL. EVERYBODY STARTS AT THE SAME TIME! AND NOW YOU WANT MORE? THE OTHER RUNNERS DIDN’T NEED ANY TIME DEDUCTIONS!

I now see I went too heavy on the caps, but I’m not typing it again.

Anyway, DEI is the one hour time deduction. It’s making up for holding them back for so long while everyone else was sprinting ahead. But, those other runners, they were so busy running that they don’t know how long it took for that second gunshot to go off. All they see is a runner with a mediocre time getting a 1 hour deduction which moves him to the top 3. The guy getting bumped to fourth is REALLY going to feel cheated, and resent the system that gave that guy an hour just because of his skin color.

Your take is pretty much the majority one in any Western society today

False.

Actually, you understand it TOO WELL to be USAian.

Fun fact: flies actually prefer vinegar.

We also don’t do best 2 of 3, or respins. It’s ond and done; fate is never wrong.

Although, sometimes, spinning the wheel and regretting the result is a good way of learning that you actually didn’t want that option to begin with.

I figure every day I’m high on the couch, I’m not out doing anything that costs money. I at least break even, I’m sure.

Cannabis

You learned a valuable lesson. Nobody is who they say they are online. Except me, I actually am a big tiddy teenage girl.

And I fully support that. Keep fighting the good fight!

I’m just telling you why you might not get the excitement you’re looking for the next time you suggest a boycott.

Your initial question was valid but this response is naive and arrogant.

Hate to break it to you, but you don’t have that much power.

By all means boycott Nestle, everything you buy from someone else is a few bucks they won’t get, but they won’t care.

Even if you count ALL the people who hate Nestle AND know what brands they own, it’s not enough to end them.

Yes, every little bit helps and nobody is telling you not to boycott, but in reality, these things are rarely if EVER big and organized enough to amount to any more than a negligible drop in revenue.