It's hard to believe that a country that is nearly 78% white could allow them be subverted to this extent and become abused and discriminated against in their own country.

Handle this topic responsibly - prove that this community is capable of that.

In my country (Australia) they reserve spots in universities for aboriginals and torres strait islanders for no reason other than to 'not be racist'

Originally Posted by Boredpayne

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Originally Posted by Boredpayne

Speaking of those universities, you may want to crack open a book and read of the long history of colonization of Australia and its general mistreatment of the Aborigines. Do you think extending educational opportunities to a people that has been largely marginalized and abused is purely out of a desire to "not be racist," or perhaps an effort to offer even a modicum of fairness or recompense?

Originally Posted by Boredpayne

The U.S. does the same thing for Native Americans. However, a small bunch of Americans are usually less concerned with that and more concerned with the horrifying (not really) overwhelming (not really) surge in more general minority scholarships, or "racial quotas" appearing in admission. Unfortunately, they have no real cause to complain, as even accounting for population makeup white people are still the majority of those receiving scholarships. It's entirely overblown, but there's something funny about sheltered white people going into hysterics over the true suffering the system puts them through.

Originally Posted by ImmortalPig

Not sure how insulting an entire country (or at least all the white people right? hurr hurr) is 'more palatable', but ok...

Wow way to counter my argument. You got me there, calling me names and then implying I'm a white supremacist. Can't handle the truth? Cry to lmod!

Just when we thought we'd hit the absolute rock bottom of BP shitposting, the floor opens up and there's a whole new sea of shit.

By the 1990s, the Klan had shrunk to under ten thousand members and had splintered into several organizations, including the Imperial Klans of America, the Knights of the White Kamelia, and the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These factions also sought alliances with a proliferating number of other white supremacist groups, including the Order and Aryan Nations. Like these groups, the KKK put new emphasis on whites as an "oppressed majority," victimized by affirmative action and other civil rights measures.

Originally Posted by Boredpayne

The floor opens up to reveal a sea? That's simply a terrible metaphor, it makes no sense.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ku_Klux_Klan.aspx

Do you realize that your metapedia citation was to a report by a white separatist organization? I imagine you didn't. You source a hate group and then have the gall to complain that your views are being unjustly implicated with bigotry. If you do not wish for your arguments to be associated with white supremacy, then I suggest you stop aligning your views with it so completely. Until then you deserve no "counter argument," though that suggests there was a cogent argument to counter in the first place, only quiet contempt. White people, the victim of institutional racism in America? You'd be laughed out of the building anywhere except the Klan hall.

Anyway, the acknowledgement of white supremacist groups creates a certainly helpful frame of reference for a discussion on racism in America, so let's talk about them. There are currently 62 officially recognized American white supremacist organizations. Of them, the most notable are the Klan and its affiliates, born out of confederate sentiment after the civil war, the Aryan Brotherhood, an extension of nazi ideology, and the scattered organizations under the banner of Christian Identity, a racial interpretation of Christian doctrine.

But perhaps the biggest vehicles for white supremacy are online. Stormfront is a particularly popular website for those of the "oppressed majority" to ferment on their suffering, see their board on "ending white genocide."

That is not to say these groups are a fair representation of America, but it's interesting to bear in mind the worryingly large fringe in this area and their historical ties.