Republicans always think the shit talk is about other people, unless the shit talker is a minority.
Can't remember who said it but I remember one Republican mouthing off about his southern colleagues because 'they sound effeminate'. I never understood how he didn't get in trouble for that.
Vivek was applying this dumb meme on white conservatives and, suddenly, all the white conservatives that spammed this meme like a great gotcha on all comments sections possible for a decade got really mad.
I've seen plenty in positions they clearly we're not qualified for struggle and HR knew they weren't qualified, their boss abd their teams knew as well....but because they were white...well🤷🏼. It's always a dead giveaway when the entire cSuite are homogeneous hires👁️ that's by design. Qualified or Not
There's definitely a subset of white guys who grow up in middle and upper class households and think that things will just work out for them. Like, they're not going around thinking "I'm white so things will be great for me", but they grow up being told that success is a given.
Meanwhile, girls from those backgrounds grow up hearing "Girls are taken less seriously so you need to work EXTRA hard to be successful". And I know that minority children will sometimes get similar messages from their parents and leaders.
The irony is that he could've made his point without skull dragging JD Vance into it😂. Uneducated and Unqualified yet fill the highest positions due to white affirmative action. He thinks they hire indians based on IQ, most of corporate hires them based on low pay. The arrogance is so pathetic.
The irony is that many of the best, brightest minds in America are embedded in institutions that EM, VR and Heritage want to dismantle: our colleges/universities and federal agencies. Extremely talented people devoted to new knowledge and human flourishing, not necessarily translation to market.
White men are outnumbered in university nowadays; female applicants and black applicants are higher in general, combined with foreign and first generation students, so their whole idea is that if white men aren’t benefiting the most from it then it must be demolished entirely
oh they are not outnumbered. They just aren't the ONLY people there, and it feels like they're being outnumbered. Certainly they're not being outnumbered by Black students at the Ivies! Already the numbers are down since SCOTUS torpedoed AA, and they weren't exactly booming to begin with.
It’s thinly veiled anti-immigrant rhetoric. In just 30 years, the Right has gone from the “immigrants are taking our jobs” to “Our precious young white men suck because of immigrants.”
as a former Black conservative, one should learn VERY quickly that there are certain conversations white conservatives get to engage in that you do not get to comment on if you value your dignity/employment/proximity to power, etc
May I add that he’s talking about the Felon-voters . You know the folks that Trump professed his love for being uneducated . Republicans know their voters are idiots, not likely to be hired in Tech.
That's a good point. The difference being that Vance wants to portray himself as one of the few Übermenschen who overcame this stifling culture while still retaining some membership in it. But both want to blame the poor for their poverty, so yeah.
Well presumably Vivek’s argument relies on the existence of a separate “Indian nerd culture” and not Indian culture as such. Otherwise, India’s economy would surpass that of the US, and people wouldn’t want to leave India for opportunities in the US.
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Can't remember who said it but I remember one Republican mouthing off about his southern colleagues because 'they sound effeminate'. I never understood how he didn't get in trouble for that.
Where will MAGA stand on Vance? Let's start asking that right now.
dunno.
I just wish to fuck this were a TV show instead of, yknow. Our life.
I'm sure he's wildly ambitious to take the Irony Throne. I just wonder how he plays in Peoria without Trump as his umbrella.
Or if you count everyone identifying as “white alone” then that’s 75% total or around 33% white men (rounding up to be generous).
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/
tomato, tomato.
When will Vivek cite weirdo Jordan Peterson and his "clean up your room" bullshit?
Frauds who use the personal responsibility theme to rope in the credulous:
Jordan Peterson
Thomas Sowell
JD Vance
Ben Shapiro
Andrew Tate
Charlie Kirk
Heather Mac Donald
* it goes way back. See Calvinism, Ben Franklin, et al.
And had time to observe them in their natural habitats.