[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

So non-white Canadians in 2018 are profiled all day long by the majority?

Not as overtly as say in the United States, but yes. Canada is much more of an open nation than the United States, but yes, white Canadians do profile just like their American cousins. Just ask a cop.

Actually my workplace, in the tech sector, is disproportionately Asian. What systemic advantages have my Asians co-workers been granted to account for their disproportionate representation in these high-paying fields?

When you say disproportionately, what do you mean by that? I would say that because you use the term disproportionately that you are expressing a noticed exception to the standard you yourself consider "Canadian," and when I say that I mean "white." You out yourself and your own biases there Cliff.

What tangible, systemic advantages do white Canadians in 2018, as a group, have over people of color in Canada?

The right of not being profiled. The right of still being considered the majority and being given the benefit of the doubt.

And yet here on this forum, in the media, in entertainment, in academia, there is 5x or 10x more concern and anger expressed over racial and gender disparity than over economic disparity. Class is far more of a taboo than race.

Let's move the goalposts shall we.

The platform produced by the UK Labour party's most recent party conference included dozens of references to race and gender, and only a handful of references to class. A party that has it roots in workshop canteens is now the part of intersectionalists academics and gender columnists who went to Oxford. And not surprisingly, that party (along with the Democrat party in the U.S.) is hemorrhaging white working class voters.

What a load of crap. The only reason these people have swung to the other side is because of fear. They are not voting on their own best interests, they have succumbed to the spate of fear based campaigns where people who do not look like them or sound like them, are the enemy, rather than the rich "white" guys that taking everything they have worked for. Last I checked, it wasn't them foreigners that were coming to Canada or the United States that were shipping jobs to third world nations and profiteering from it. It was the enriched and powerful classes that were doing so, and that is comprised "disproportionately" by white people. Fear is an amazing motivator and can make people do incredibly stupid things, like voting for the very people that are stealing their lunch money from them.

Explain how the white carpet layer trying to retrain in Canada in 2018 has advantages and better access. What specific advantages are those?

He has a distinct advantage in that he is white and will always get the benefit of the doubt over the person of color. Given a chance, a person will almost always select a candidate who they believe shares their values and beliefs, because its human nature. The fact that the vast majority of businesses are run by white people, it provides an advantage to white people.

What specific laws and government policies in Canada in 2018 do you think denies fair access to non-whites? Where is your evidence that most white Canadians are angry that our post-secondary institutions, for example, have increasingly non-white student bodies?

I didn't say anyone was angry about anything. That is your schtick. I am pointing out that because of the history behind the countries, who established the laws, who still presides over those laws, and who has the money to influence those who establish and preside over those laws, is the group who has the greatest advantage. Being white has incredible benefit, especially working within the system. Again, don't believe me? Ask a cop.