home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!kaarts
- From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
- Subject: Re: Men doing Male Bashing
- Message-ID: <C1CLIn.Gv6@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- Nntp-Posting-Host: keyes.cc.umanitoba.ca
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1993Jan18.072911.15112@leland.Stanford.EDU> <C12qAv.26v@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Jan20.045753.27442@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan20.172933.12003@netcom.com> <bob1.727734830@cos>
- Distribution: na
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:44:46 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
-
-
- In article <1993Jan20.045753.27442@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >In article <C12qAv.26v@ccu.umanitoba.ca> kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
- >>White people don't suffer from racism, hence they obvoiusly benefit from
- >>it? I think that the definition everyone else is using is whether white
- >>people are better off than they would be in the absence of racism.
-
- >There are different levels. If I get a better job or apartment than I
- >deserve simply because I'm white, that benefits me. Does it benefit
- >society? No. So, if you're saying that what benefits society
- >benefits whites, then racism affects whites negatively. But if you
- >say that whites get undeserved jobs, housing, promotions, etc. simply
- >because they're white, that benefits whites (at the expense of
- >non-whites and the equality of society).
-
- But have you received these undeserved benefits? I have difficulty thinking
- of areas of my life which would be different in the absence of racism. I
- think a case could be made for sexism, because of the numbers of people
- involved and the different character of the differentiation.
-
- Ken
-