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ebfe | 9 years ago

They aren't on the margins, at all. Sanders said that white men don't know what it's like to be poor, the Colombia mattress girl was invited to the State of the Union, the president of Harvard was fired for saying that men may have greater variance in genetic traits than women.

Hundreds of millions in federal funding is awarded for professors to talk about how we need to "abolish whiteness"; it's the dominant belief system in academics.

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edblarney|9 years ago

Lena Dunham tweeted today that 'straight white men' are out-dated and need to be 'evolved' into better people, of course, with the leadership of women.

It was toungue-in-cheeck support for Hillary, but it's also just prejudiced, 2K up-votes, and a lot of people will buy into the casual bigotry of it. She can get away with it because she's a girl - and she knows she can - which makes it that much more cheeky, which is a Dunham thing - but still.

They lost my support about 10 years ago.

Now I pick and chose the issues.

douche|9 years ago

And people are aghast at the idea that there might be a reaction opposed to such insansity...

PKop|9 years ago

This is why Trump will win. I'm not joking.