Vince Vaughn: wealthy, privileged, white male (and of course, a Libertarian) approaches Affirmative Action and structural racism with pseudo-egalitarianism and all the willful ignorance that typifies America’s aggressive denial of white privilege and the fact that for centuries, it has been the role of government to deny rights to black people based strictly on the grounds of race
Full article by TheRoot, here and 12 related posts Vince Vaughn needs tattooed on his forehead to read:
1. gradientlair: Why Whites Hate Affirmative Action
2. ethiopienne: Sonya Sotomayor’s Blistering Dissent on the Affirmative Action Ruling by SCOTUS
3. girldwarf: Deconstructing Masculinity and Manhood
4. Time: Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone
5. Ever Notice When White Men Have a Problem With Discrimination?
6. stfuconservatives: Race Didn’t Cost Abigail Fisher Her Spot At The University of Texas
7. newbatteri: Life Is Tough for White Americans After A Few Centuries of Presumed Superiority
8. fyeahcracker: Even In 1962, Ninety Percent of White People Claimed That Black Children Had Equal Opportunity
9. Five Things Women Couldn’t Do In The 1960s
10. Americans Have No Problem With Government Assistance…Until Black People Receive It
11. Ta-Nehisi Coates - America’s Strange Belief About Racism
12. gradientlair: Victim Blaming and The Just World Fallacy
Bonus: Straight White Male - The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
SN: You can believe in things like reverse racism and the myth of “meritocracy” only when you pretend, not that everyone is equal, but that everyone is treated equally (newsflash: everyone is not treated equally)