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edmund_the_destroyer wrote (edited )

As a white male, through sheer dumb luck I figured out the lie years ago. But too many of the white guys I know never did.

I would say it's tied into a just world fallacy - the idea that the great majority of the rich earned their easy lives, and the great majority of the people struggling are only suffering from their own lack of character and work ethic. Then you perceive anyone pushing for social change as trying to undermine justice instead of establish it.

Some white males dot all the 'i's and cross all the 't's and watch their life go off track anyway, and then blame everyone that isn't wealthy and isn't a white male. But when you're lucky, instead they start to realize the game is rigged. (Edit: I want to rephrase this paragraph another way. White men try to reach success playing by the rules, and fail. Some realize the world isn't just, and come to appreciate that people that are not white men have been fighting all the same battles they have, only harder. Others cling on to the just world myth, and blame their inability to succeed on everyone trying to undermine the existing system.)

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