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The Ada Initiative takes a different approachThe Ada Initiative takes a different approachPosted Feb 18, 2011 14:39 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach by zander76 Parent article: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach
I can assure you that white men, particularly educated white men, are still the advantaged group in the UK, though less so than 40 years ago. We don't generally get suspected of obtaining our promotions at work in a supine position. We don't get asked at tech conferences whose husband / boyfriend / gigolo we are. We don't get catcalls from the workers on building sites. We don't have social pressure to have more variety of clothing than "enough to be able to wear clean clothes every day while only doing the laundry once a week". Nobody feels the need to make satirical references to being arrested on suspicion of being white in charge of a Mercedes Benz. As for hate groups, the bulk of the membership tends to consist of people (often of low socioeconomic status) persuaded by demagogues to see the Other - rather than themselves, the System, or the people who run the System - as the source of their problems.
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The Ada Initiative takes a different approach Posted Feb 19, 2011 22:52 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Nobody feels the need to make satirical references to being arrested on suspicion of being white in charge of a Mercedes Benz.Although being white and a banker is probably a thing best concealed at present.
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