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  1. The only qualifiers I do like are automatic qualifiers. If you can’t win your conference you don’t belong in any playoffs.
  2. Because I don’t think one can prove the reality of other people’s lived experience. It’s like when my wife’s cousin, a very wealthy Biden donor from SE Texas, looked at a poll of people saying they were worse off financially in 24 than in 2022 and he said “they’re lying!” There’s not much to say. I posted something to see the extent to which people here could relate it. The answer is not very much. It is what it is.
  3. If you are asking what I think- I don’t think “white males” get shafted at the population level. I think that individual white males under about 45 who do not have money or connections or good luck get shafted sometimes, and when they do, progressives either don’t care or blame them.
  4. No doubt. But what this thread presupposes is, maybe some of them do? Because that would explain a lot. White males are obviously in control of a an oversized share of the money and power in our society, but that doesn’t translate to any single person. The entire premise that a white man never gets shafted essentially asserts that me, the guy unloading the truck at the carpet store and Donald Trump Jr. all have the same privilege relative to any non-white person or any woman.
  5. You made a very good point on #3, which I addressed directly.
  6. Hoping? I’m hoping that progressives begin to admit the possibility that their political project should go back to welcoming and advocating for any person who is getting the short end of the stick.
  7. You did, and that’s appreciated.
  8. I haven’t presented any. I added my personal experience to what’s in the essay and so did @956 Worldwide. Others said they had not observed something like that, which is also fine. The other responses group into the following two major categories: 1) the author is lying 2) ok, maybe some of this did happen to millennial men but probably they are just mediocre white guys angry because their privilege was taken #1 is simply nonresponsive #2 illustrates the disconnect in this bubble- millennial men aren’t mad because their privilege got taken away- they were not in the workforce to experience anything like good times for mediocre white men. And the vast majority of you are still enjoying your privilege, which is why you have the luxury to dismiss them as “mediocre white men.”
  9. One more thing, Brisket, you of all people should be able to understand the difference between population level effects of a social change and the way it might feel to an individual person , particularly when those individuals played no role in making things how they are. There’s nothing good about an individual getting shafted.
  10. Some people have, an I suspected most of the reaction would be recitations of the affluent white progressive catechism, which is what I got.
  11. But that’s not the point, which is the point.
  12. No offense to anybody but this thread is pretty much what I expected and it’s disheartening. This board is a pretty representative sample of mainstream progressive discourse, and this essay has proven to be a really interesting Rorschach test. My hope was that some class consciousness had crept back into this part of the left as we head into the next cycle, but the reaction here and other mainstream-left spaces to this demonstrates to me that class consciousness is still mainly symbolic if it exists at all, and nominal racial representation still trumps everything. Older affluent progressives (ie Mainstream white democrats) are still struggling to find empathy with voters they need to win. It’s troubling.
  13. I only know what I saw, and broad based denial of opportunity based on race and gender to people in a specific range of career bands is what I consistently observed in that period. That’s my direct, first hand, experience so I don’t really know what else to say other than that I think everyone’s intentions were basically good. That’s marketing malpractice. Going around apologizing is not how anybody wins. My point here is to locate a legitimate source of resentment, point to the modest progress that was gained, and think about what lessons it can teach.
  14. It’s a waste- professional 3 pt shooters are a dime a dozen these days. Flagg is too elite in forward motion to be taking set shots when he could be collapsing defenses and kicking out.
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