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So You're About To Become A Minority...

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Posted: 04/18/2015 | Edited: 04/20/2015 11:20 PM EDT
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, white people have another 30 years to enjoy being America's majority race. But come 2045, the white population will make up less than 50 percent of the American population for the first time ever.
So what's a privileged white person to do? Luckily for Caucasians everywhere, "The HuffPost Show" put together a helpful guide to ease the white transition into life as a minority. 
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  • Jahan Khalili · Top Commenter · University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    The mocking and gleeful video ignores the fact that white people are the only people in the world to tolerate criticism of themselves, and their culture, and who essentially allow others to use the things they invented against them (e.g. the internet and video you are using to bash them and mock them with).
    Right?
    They essentially allowed themselves to be displaced over the guilt-trips that were played on them (for things that every other group in history has done, e.g. slavery, a business that they - out of all the people in the world - were arguably late-comers to).
    What do you think will happen when they are gone? Do you imagine that the non-white ethnic groups will have similar values?
    Will they tolerate criticism of themselves, as they ascend and gain political power?
    What will happen to the Huffington Post, when there are not enough white people to defend Western values such as freedom of speech and respect for individual rights?
    If you want to know possible answers, look at South Africa and Zimbabwe.
    • Sheldrake Parker · Top Commenter · Kraków, Poland
      Jahan Khalil

      "The mocking and gleeful video....."

      Get a grip and stop whining Skippy!
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    • Jahan Khalili · Top Commenter · University of Maryland, Baltimore County
      Sheldrake Parker What a stupid cliche.
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      · 118 · April 18 at 7:51am
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    • Keshava Ishaya · Top Commenter · St. Louis
      Jahan Khalini All races and cultures bring us unique gifts and limitations demonstrating some of the best and worst of humanity. White people are no different. Don't despair over the future loss of the white majority in the US. The GOP and white majority backed by an increasingly apathetic electorate will almost certainly destroy our economy well before whites lose their majority status by implementing failed GOP trickle down policies. GOP trickle down policies are increasingly destructive and unsustainable. GOP Presidents created private sector jobs at half the rate of Democrats since 1961. Over the past 26 years, Democrat Presidents, Clinton & Obama, created 28 million p.s. jobs in 14 years compared to the 900K created by GOP Presidents, Bush I & II, in 12 years. It's highly unlikely our beloved country survive GOP and white majority rule for another 30 years. Our last GOP President lost 646K private sector jobs and gave us 1.3 trillion deficits, two unfunded wars and the Great Recession.
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      · 93 · April 18 at 10:45am
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  • Mike Moeller · Top Commenter · Lamar University
    So that means White People will receive their 40 acres and a mule? Along with racial preferences and month to celebrate our cultural. Man, I am looking forward to being a minority.
    • Tariq Ali · Top Commenter · UMES
      Sure will! Right after that happens for our current minorities. And remember no complaining when the new majorities try to appropriate your culture, the month dedicated to your culture, or when they make fun of your need for any of that stuff!
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    • Brenda Cotton · Top Commenter
      You may have a lot more than 40 acres and a mule to look forward too.Karma just might visit
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      · 104 · April 17 at 10:55pm
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    • Tracey Thomas · Top Commenter
      Mike Moeller
      "So that means White People will receive their 40 acres and a mule? Along with racial preferences and month to celebrate our cultural. Man, I am looking forward to being a minority."

      yes even though "white history" is taught 12 months out of the year! but only after 50-400 years of horrific institutionalized discrimination which will include (but won't be limited to) indentured servitude (you'll basically be the property of another human being! isn't that exciting!?!?!), disenfranchised votes (you might cast them, if you're allowed near the ballot box, but we won't count them), you'll be refused service (along with other examples of just patently wrong explicit discrimination based on your race... what an experience!) and if you're fired for being white you'll have no legal recourse what so ever!!!! oh the fun you'll have... wait until we start talking to you about your marriages, they're no longer legal, and how you won't be able to adopt or even foster kids (we might have to impose regulations on whether you can have them naturally).

      so yeah, do all that and you can be treated like the rest of the minorities in this country. i mean, that's what your humorous comment meant right? that you want to be treated like minorities... or did you forget that all that other stuff came first?
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  • Cliff Arroyo · Top Commenter · School of Hard Knocks, The University of Life
    The US was once a country, often flawed, sometimes deeply, but still great. A propositional nation that accepted all who accepted the proposition.

    Now it's just going to be a place on a map inhabited by random groups of people that hate each other and have no intention whatsoever of accepting the proposition laid out in the declaration and constitution.
    • Stephen D'Agostino · Top Commenter · SUNY Stony Brook
      Mr. Arroyo, the proposition you speak of was in reality the mass displacement and genocide of the native population, an oligarchy of elite white male land owners (later industrialists) with slaves and immigrants to do the actual work. If what you predict happens; it will be the results of centuries of bigotry and exploitation.
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      · 123 · April 18 at 3:30am
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    • Sheldrake Parker · Top Commenter · Kraków, Poland
      Cliff Arroyo

      "Now it's just going to be a place on a map inhabited by random groups of people that hate each other"

      It's ALWAYS been that Cliff! The first settlers hated the Native Americans who pretty soon returned the favour. Then, as soon as different ethnic groups started to arrive, they immediately hated each other. Read some of the rabid loathing which was directed at groups like the Italians back in the 19th century.
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      · 41 · April 18 at 4:50am
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    • Cliff Arroyo · Top Commenter · School of Hard Knocks, The University of Life
      The sins of the US are no more than the sins of any other nation. The achievements, including efforts to amend past sins, are far greater than almost any other nation has accomplished. If you have counter examples, please provide them.

      But if you associate the US only with genocide and slavery then I guess you won't mourn its passing.
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      · 125 · April 18 at 5:13am
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  • Jahan Khalili · Top Commenter · University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    The ridiculous way you sum up Western culture shows that you are ungrateful for it.
    Is classical music to be mocked? Anatomically correct art? Modern medicine (hint: the eradication of Smallpox, vaccinations, antibiotics, the advent of aseptic surgery) is no big deal, right? The computers, electronics, telecommunications and electricity you use every day are not important to you because you have never lived without them.
    All of these things are the products of white people and their culture.
    You cannot know their value, because you have never lived without them.
    To you, whiteness is just what the usual non-white political activists (who are living in the West and who have not spent a day at the mercy of another culture or people) say it is.
    The imaginings of the spoiled white kids who think that they can live outside of their cu...lture and without the help of their people or anyone else can easily be tested by them leaving it and going to live in a Third World country where there is little or no Western political influence to protect them (e.g. Afghanistan or Iraq), and where they will for once in their lives be entirely at the mercy of a non-white culture and people, and thus experience it without the option of leaving whenever they get tired of or bored with the experiment.
    I dare any of you to really go and experience what its like to be a minority.
    You wouldn't dare, because you don't have the guts.
    Hypocritically, you know that you can only safely mock a society you're living in when its a Western one.
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    • Jeff Mintz · Top Commenter
      You are aware all these modern inventions are not solely by white inventors maybe you should look up black inventors that have a lot to do with our modern day comforts.
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    • Robb Hibbard · Top Commenter
      "Western culture" and the U.S. aren't synonymous. For example, all other countries considered "western" have abolished the death penalty. That's but one of several examples. But thanks for playing.
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    • Tracey Thomas · Top Commenter
      um, you do realize that the things you've mentioned weren't all invented in the u.s. (you do realize this was for the u.s. only right or in your white pride zeal did you miss out on that?) and not all of them were invented by specifically white people?
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      · 27 · April 18 at 5:01am
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  • Ryan Patterson · Top Commenter
    The downright bigotry that gets spewed on this website daily, rationalized as "satire" or "progressive" is astounding.
    • Geoffrey Simmons · Top Commenter · Central Florida
      lol a comedy vid that reverses the social order of our nation using historical fact and accounts= "downright bigotry". People like you, are depressing.
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      · 23 · April 18 at 1:08pm
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    • Les Kern · Top Commenter · Works at Retired
      See, you are why the Half Hour News Hour only lasted 5 episodes.
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      · 2 · April 19 at 5:18am
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    • Rachel Harrison · Top Commenter
      Ryan there's a reason why a lot of people no longer consider themselves liberal.
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      · 27 · April 19 at 2:48pm
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  • Danelle Smart · Top Commenter · Graphic Designer at Residential Warranty Services
    Maybe if it was still the 50's. These days it means my kids will get scholarships for being white, hooray!
    • Sayed Farid · Top Commenter
      I am willing to bet white people get 90+ percent of the scholarships in the US. As a white person, you are only jealous the other 40% of the people get 10% of the scholarships.
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      · 78 · April 17 at 11:11pm
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    • Tracey Thomas · Top Commenter
      only if they experience 50-400 yrs of horrific and sometimes violent discrimination first... otherwise you won't really be a minority.
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      · 30 · April 17 at 11:13pm
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    • Sayed Farid · Top Commenter
      It is amazing how white people like you wanna eat the cake and have it too.

      Here is a study by finaid.org : "While there are very few private scholarships that are explicitly targeted at Caucasian students as a
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      Caucasian students receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and meritbased
      grants. Caucasian students receive more than three times as much in merit-based grant and private
      scholarship funding as minority students. "

      http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf
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      · 34 · April 17 at 11:18pm
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  • Alex U Koyfman · Top Commenter
    Racism is awesome unless it targets non-whites; and/or is published in Huffpost.
    • Swasea Clark · Top Commenter · Insurance Producer (Disability) at Aflac
      Racism needs the power of the institution to be Racism.. you've never experienced racism in your life. The erosion of privilege is not the onset of oppression.
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    • Ken Lima · Top Commenter
      Swasea Clark Yea we will take away your rights but you won't be oppressed...like we will shoot you in the head but we won't kill you!
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    • Carol J. Stewart · Top Commenter · Penn Valley, California
      Ken Lima , delusions are hard to fight...let me help. Giving someone else the same protections and rights YOU have, doesn't REMOVE yours.
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      · 32 · April 18 at 11:26am
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  • Donald Rachmaninoff · Top Commenter · Works at Helicopter Repair
    The day the American white liberals have been dreaming of.
    • Robb Hibbard · Top Commenter
      Why, it's not like minorities are mistreated in the U.S., right?
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    • Brian Keefe · Top Commenter
      American white Conservatives being impotent and not fornicating like they used to right dude?
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    • Diego Indie · Top Commenter
      white conservatives are already a minority..... look how they have to cheat the population to get an elected office.
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      · 22 · April 18 at 4:50am
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  • Karl Morrison
    Next up -- White Entertainment Television!
    • John Jenrette · Top Commenter · University of Miami
      Can't It'd have the same call letters as Women's Entertainment Television aka WET.
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      · 7 · April 18 at 4:34am
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    • Martin Monks · Top Commenter · Grosse Ile, Michigan
      Karl I hope not....lol. White folk are not intended to entertain. They just don't smile enough. Lol
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      · 6 · April 18 at 6:05am
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    • Rosa Duran · Top Commenter
      Aren't you entertained already with Kim Kardashian, Real Housewives of Beverly Hill and Dukes of Hazzard? Sheesh, some people aren't never satisfied.
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      · 14 · April 18 at 8:00am
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  • Kristopher Herring · Top Commenter
    This is... offensive.

    Look I get that this is tongue in cheek, but "privileged white person"? Perhaps the writers of Huffpo show or their bosses assume that because they have plenty of money, every white person does? Just to fill you in, lots of Americans are struggling at or below the poverty line, including Caucasian Americans. Plenty of us also already work jobs in physical labor as well... After all, we can't all have careers sitting on our biscuits disparaging entire groups of people.

    Also, someone screwed up your map of the contiguous U.S. it looks stupid. Specifically the Pacific NW. Cartograph much?
     
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