[roncesvalles]

I'll dig down 3 levels of "why".

The endemic anti-intellectualism among white communities (especially rural and southern) has resulted in a steady decline of white people in well-paying professions in America. If you count the Jewish as a separate group, white people are likely a minority in corporate America. Combined with social upliftment of other groups ("wokism") and the opioid crisis (that has disproportionately affected hinterland communities but immigrant groups seem immune to), white people are sliding down the American totem pole. Trumpism, alt-right, anti-woke, and the general resurgence of racist rhetoric are basically just reactions to all this.

These people want manufacturing because manufacturing is largely considered a "white people sport". If America becomes a manufacturing-first society, the hope is that it puts white people at the front and center of American society again.

JD Vance wrote a book about this.

[BigTTYGothGF]

> white people are likely a minority in corporate America.

I don't see how this can possibly be true.

> that has disproportionately affected hinterland communities but immigrant groups seem immune to

Or this, especially in light of data such as this: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db549.htm

[roncesvalles]

The data you linked shows that Native Americans, Blacks and Whites have the highest per capita rates of overdose (in that order), which validates my claim.

White American overdose deaths per capita are 6x that of Asian-Americans.

[ishouldstayaway]

> white people are likely a minority in corporate America.

Oh boy am I gonna need some actual data for this claim.

[roncesvalles]

Even if not quite true, it doesn't change my argument since it was more about the rate of change.

You can construct the definition of white collar in a way that makes it seem like it's mostly white people, but among high paying job titles within a company, absolutely I would say there are fewer than 50% non-Jewish whites.

[runako]

> Even if not quite true, it doesn't change my argument

This is one of the main points of bigotry. The facts don't matter. So when a person says something obviously ridiculous like

> among high paying job titles within a company, absolutely I would say there are fewer than 50% non-Jewish whites

the proper way to interpret is "I feel like there are too many unworthy people working there," where "too many" is entirely subjective and could be as few as one.

[roncesvalles]

>"I feel like there are too many unworthy people working there"

Not at all. That was not my implication even slightly. I'm non-white btw.

[runako]

Honestly didn't mean to say you were being a bigot there. But I would strongly suggest you spend some time in Google/census data/etc. to recalibrate your feelings. The TL;DR; is most high-paid corporate jobs in the US are held by a single demographic. Said demographic is a distinct minority of college graduates in the US.

One's information environment can mislead, but perhaps the process of finding information sources you consider objective, then studying them, will lead you to reevaluate the information diet that is creating a false picture of reality.

[wat10000]

Why “non-Jewish”?

[WarmWash]

Jews are culturally isolated enough to effectively count as their own race.

Race is generally a misused concept because 99% of the time people actually mean culture, as anyone from any race can be part of a culture.

[wat10000]

Right, when people are talking about white people being disproportionately represented (or under-represented) in high paying corporate jobs, they're definitely looking into the cultural background of those people and determining which ones fit "non-Jewish white" rather than looking at the black guy and putting him in the "not white" category based on appearance....

In my experience, you wouldn't know most Jews are Jews unless you start quizzing them about their religious practices.

[kelipso]

This doesn’t make sense in light of the fact that we do distinguish between Hispanic and non-Hispanic in addition to white, black, etc.

[BigTTYGothGF]

You know why.

[HoldOnAMinute]

At my FAANG in Sunnyvale, I often feel like the last white guy on earth.

But I don't resent the people who stepped up to fill the jobs.

Rather, I am disappointed that these amazing jobs were basically gifted to US residents, but my fellow white people "Opted Out" of these high paying jobs.