[nuclear_eclipse]

> Literally everybody else on earth has it worse than you. Grow up and take responsibility for your own situation.

So when I was trying to go to university and my family was too poor to pay my tuition, but I could only apply to <40% of scholarships available because I was white instead of a "minority", that's better off than everybody else? How is "taking responsibility" going to fix that sort of reverse discrimination? Why is it OK for scholarships to focus on poor minorities, but it's not OK for scholarships to focus on poor caucasions?

[jbooth]

Start your own scholarships if you're such a big believe in self-reliance.

More to the point -- yes, you still had it way the hell easier than you likely would have if you were black or hispanic. White males are not victims -- we have it easier than every other group. If you forget that, you're being an asshole.

[blasdel]

Because there are mutual societies formed out of need for minority groups to support one another — most of them initially just for information sharing, emotional support, and legal defenses. Scholarships came later to help the children in their communities go to college.

Hell, almost all scholarships were endowed by people to help the younger versions of themselves go to college, it's just that the identity-forming characteristic is different for everybody.

Given the state of things in the US, there aren't really non-shitheads that primarily identify themselves as white.