Eh, I wouldn’t say no. I’ve seen companies hire blacks over whites simply because they were black.

THAT IS NOT OPPRESSION! Even if these “companies you’ve seen” existed they would be outliers. 

Studies have shown over and over again that White Males are more likely to hired, less likely to be unemployed, more likely to go to college, less likely to be imprisoned for identical crimes, extremely less likely to get the death penalty. 

Whites more likely to get a job over minorities

http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf

Death Penalty more likely for minorities

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-penalty-black-and-white-who-lives-who-dies-who-decides#Study 1

Death Penalty more likely if victim is white 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E5DC133EF93BA35752C0A9659C8B63

Black Unemployment to hit 25 year high

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404085.html 

That time or even times you saw a Black person treated preferentially neither erases their oppression nor makes whites oppressed. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, society is bigger than you and I.

-Joe

yourworstinvention-:

If you know anything about me, you’ll know I’m not the least bit racist. But, has anyone stopped to think that the “Black” unemployment has absolutely nothing to with racial preference of employers and more to do with the fact that maybe a decent amount of “Blacks” are lazy? Not every statistic has to be based on race. Some people are lazy, some people are fuck-ups, some people can’t keep a job because of their personality. I don’t think any of these reasons have anything to with race; black, white, Asian, Pacific Islander, Russian, German, etc.

This is perhaps the most racist thing I have ever read…

-Joe

OH NO HE DIDN’T. Wow. Way to sound straight out of every 1950s race debate ever.”I’m not racist but my statement bears an uncanny resemblance to those said by racists, in fact, to one of the most common ones. That makes me…what?”

Side note: this is why people who complain about quotas or “preferential treatment” (that was my ethics textbook, oh the rage I felt) are morons: the reason a lot of white dudes are hired all the time isn’t because they’re always the most competent in every case. It’s because people hire white dudes BECAUSE they are white and male. Okay? Okay. So for people to say “oh, but you wouldn’t want to be hired because of a race-based/gender-based quota as opposed to your qualifications”, goddammit, there IS one in place already.

THIS. ilusfm.

“I’m not racist, but…” is a dead give away that a racist statement is about to follow.