Am just getting sick of the word white being generalized in these conversations by a multi-racial person, Hyke. One of these days SG may actually talk to me about these things from a personal perspective; rather than a detached distance, and will keep provoking him every time he brings it up, in hopes that might happen. It would be very interesting to talk about the whites and non-whites in our lives. Am actually in the process of telling a friend the story of the first time I realized in my childhood, that people of my own non-white ethnic background don't accept me or my family members, because we refuse to live on a reservation or seek out benefits or handouts or affirmative action, or any other patronizing social bullshit which labels us as otherwise unable. It's that way with black people too. Blacks who strive to be educated or successful in any way are rejected by blacks as not being real blacks, and touted as trying to act white, because they refuse to play the part of the victim society insists they are. http://gmwilliams.hubpages.com/hub/The-Victim-Mentality-of-Black-Americans
I get what you mean, but there are so many ways to look at things. Personal levels, sociological levels, historical levels.
And all give different perspectives. The victim card is one that annoys me massively. How often will Germany have to apologise for what happened in WWII. Some keep demanding that. Probably still will, in fifty years time. Makes no sense. Knowing about history does.
That kids in "black" schools in my country get less options in practice than kids from "white" schools. Or kids from "low income area" schools and kids from "posh" schools is sociologically clear. There is no guilt, there are no vicitims. There is still a difference. And a society that wants to stay healthy will try to make the gaps between the chances the groups have in practice (not theory) smaller.
The victim card is a lousy card, in situations like this. In the past, rich land owners, and with that high elders in churches would have it preached a lot that the poor and the meek would go to heaven way more easy than the rich. Victim card in favour of the rich during life, and the poor after life.
Now there is no afterlife to reward for the misery in this life. And some found a way to play the victim card to claim money. If it works, there will be people doing it. If sex pays, there will be people selling it. As long as the opportunity is there to play the victim card, and gain by it, people will do it, no matter what background they come from. That is why I refuse to believe in the victim game.
Being aware as a state that there are sociological differences that need honest attention, different from same rules for all is something different from honouring a victim game.
Victims happen in crimes. Where people are at fault, and people have to answer for what they did. Most victims will hopefully be able to outgrow their victim role, and start living their life again.
In sociological settings, life is not fair, but no one is at fault for the situation he or she is born in. Every situation does come with challenges and responsibilities that belong to the setting they are born in.
