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Originally Posted by Guest
You were doing OK, until you made the mistake of stating the underlined portion above. 
Has it ever occurred to you, that the real common denominator with the "statistics" that Racist Boy likes to use...is poverty?
Further, has it ever crossed your mind that the reason so many blacks (and other minorities) live in poverty...is because of those with Racist Boy's viewpoint?
If you have thought of it, why are you so loathe to say so?
If you haven't, then I'm sorry but you can't help but be lumped in with racists and bigots...that's just the way it works.
Let me make it simple for you.
It's analogous to a group making a concerted effort of going around pushing/tripping elderly people and then after enough of them have been left splayed on the ground, declaring... "Old people can't walk."
Or maybe closer to home, is the recent statement by MDLNB that (if you believe he ever had the power to hire or fire, which most intelligent people know better) he wouldn't hire women...because they might take time off to have children.
Ya think maybe that kind of belief is the reason women have been underpaid compared to men doing the same job...and is the definition of misogyny?
By the way, MDLNB shares your political beliefs.
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Again, you make too many generalizations. It's not ALL about poverty. Many people in these situations (and that goes for blacks AND whites) make it a lifestyle. I know because of where I live and where I currently work. I see it all the time.......again, not just one race. I may have mentioned an example on here before where my husband procured one of these as you call them, impoverished, a job. It paid $15/hr with full benefits. The person turned it down - his reason being he did better on welfare. There was no physical or mental reason that this person could not work. It was a choice! No one was holding him back but himself.
About women's pay, again, another generalization on your part. There are many reasons why women may not be getting paid as much. For example, my husband and I work in the same profession. He always got paid more than I did but for good reason - one, he was in a management position and I was not, and two, he worked a lot more overall hours than I did. Any place that I have worked there was a pay range based on experience, never saw one based on gender. Hourly wages were the same for both. Overall my pay would not end up being the same as my male counterparts because I took time off for maternity leave and childcare.
My point is you can't just make generalizations about these sorts of things, anymore than one can make generalizations about certain groups of people. There are too many varying factors involved.
Btw, what was this thread about again?
