@rooeytoo
Affirmative action is not a myth. But there is the affirmative action myth. @Harold lays it out above. I really have not seen anyone, at any time, point to any statistics of any significance – or even try to – that showed that (1) white people were not getting into college because of affirmative action – it’s always stated as a fact (please note that I said college – whether or not we get into a particular school ends up being a complex decision you know) or (2) as a standard of affirmative action that people are being admitted because of their race.
It’s the idea that because people take race into account in admission when they consider applications in order to create a diverse student body, it’s racist. Of course, no…affirmative action programs are enacted in a manner so that they cannot create “quotas” or accept people solely due to their race (such programs were struck down by the Supreme Court). The reaction is a gut one.
I don’t know where you live, but I doubt that racism against white is prevalent. I doubt that because I doubt that it’s become such that whites are paid less. That whites can’t get jobs. That whites go to worse schools. Etc. etc.
It’s not extremely dangerous – because I can guarantee you that someone who wouldn’t care one way or another who becomes resentful and biased against an entire race because they were treated a certain way by members of that race would be inclined to do so anyway…they were probably waiting for an excuse.
The problem, of course, is that you’re arguing that it’s dangerous because it turns the people that are affected by it into racists. You may be right, but who the hell has an excuse to be racist? I have to work really, really, really hard not to hate Christians because of what they do every day in the news, in their churches, and in the legislature to try to limit my rights. But I don’t. It would be so easy.
When white people get bitter because they have experiences that represent a backlash against racism, I get it. But to say that it should change their worldview, when they know what the state of this country was just 50 years ago and remains today for most racial minorities,...well, you’re right – I’ll never “get” that.
Thank the lord.