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In reply to the discussion: White DUers: Tell Your Stories [View all]Aristus
(66,310 posts)that people of color still have to deal with even in this day and age.
And I'm not offended by the term 'Wypipo'. I think it's kind of funny.
The only time I've ever been hit with an ethnic slur is when I was in the Army. I was openly considering converting to Judaism. One Friday, a fellow soldier asked me to lend him some money for the weekend. Knowing him to be unreliable when paying back money, I refused, whereupon he spat 'JEW!' at me.
That's far from institutionalized discrimination, and at any rate, I wasn't Jewish, so no one was trying to throw up societal roadblocks in front of me.
I just can't buy into the ludicrous notion that as standards for inter-ethnic equality improve, whites are somehow not getting a fair shake. The ridiculous grievances that drive the white power movement are as pathetic as the people espousing them.