LogFAQs > #891648801

No. It's not.

Putting aside the current PC environment, it's really not. You need to sit down and work hard to get anywhere's. A lot of PoC seem to think that being white gets you things like, say, a white Santa coming by on Christmas and giving you an office job and PS4 when, in reality, the majority of us end up working the same crappy manual labor jobs that the person who believes in white Santa does. We sit down and have to work hard at school, need to work hard for raises and paychecks, and so-forth. Plus we have a constant string of negative stereotypes that follow us around just like PoC; like the redneck or white trash ones.

Factoring in the current social justice climate and it can be outright terrifying. Imagine potentially losing your job because a PoC decided you were racist and filed a complaint with the company; regardless of if you were following the script or even said anything to them. Or hearing constantly about how your race is horrible monsters who do nothing but enslave, oppress, and abuse PoC despite how your ancestors didn't even come to 'Murica till 1930 and you come home to cry every night into your mattress in the barren hovel you call 'home' because your entire life is basically devoted to trying to get enough money to pay bills. Heaven forbid you are a straight, white, male and say anything against whatever the current PC focus is on.

It's like people hear that you're an elf and instantly assume you're the high elf kind whom everyone loves and adores who get everything handed to them on a silver patter, only to find out you're a Santa/Keebler elf who spends their days working hard to make small things they took for granted or a Dark elf whom people outright despise.
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