You're clearly not familiar with hiring in tech. It's 2% because the available pool is tiny. It's not for lack of trying to hire non-white, non-asians in tech. Tech minorities are in fact prioritized in hiring AND there are countless programs to increase the pool. Aimed at girls and tech minorities, not white and asian boys.
I'm not American, yet almost all Tech companies have inherited this Identity Politics culture.
It feels like such a huge step backwards to have scholarships, fast track programmes, etc. rule out great applicants solely based on their skin colour.
In the USA, perhaps. Though I doubt it even there, a lot of the rural underperforming regions are mostly white.
In Belarus or Moldova, definitely not.
People somehow forget that being white is not the same as being white American. There is a lot of dirty poor whites living under dubious regimes elsewhere. Whiteness is not really a thing.
Early 90s Eastern Europe would be a tough environment for a 18 year old. There was a lot of friction moving away from from the old system (not that Belarus living in 2021 is that much easier)
White people live on average 77 years white black people live 72 years on average. The HORROR! The white man's burden to have more money and live longer! Truly the catastrophe of the 21st century.
Wow. You clearly are not connected with the broader white community, even if you're white yourself. Or just too young to see reality yet. I'm from the midwest, which removes a lot of the privilege on the coasts, normal people live here, not nearly as many silver spoons and generational wealth. Opioid and suicide death is through the roof compared to decades before. I knew many people personally that are now gone. If you hate white people, you should be very happy in 2021. Because as the backbone of America by default as the majority, they're under assault by corporate America to squeeze them for everything they're worth. Whether that's reducing their wages through offshore labor or effects of NAFTA, or by default as the majority group pushed pain pills by unscrupulous docs and big pharma.
Your generalization may be reality in your area, if you go outside at all and not just reading regurgitated politically motivated crap online. But I'm not seeing it on the ground, in the broad swaths of middle America.
To use your logic in another period, in 1300, the king was white, all the nobles were white, the clergy was white. White people in England in the 1300s must have had it pretty easy.
"Having it easy," is about class not race. Making it about race is a political motive to divide the lower and middle class to keep the status quo. You might thing what you are doing is virtuous, but it's just maintaining the status quo for all races in the middle and lower class.
Go visit Appalachia. Wanna see poor of all races, go visit just about anywhere outside a city / metropolitan area.
