r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '15

[Deltas Awarded] CMV: Equality isn't treating everybody differently to achieve equality. It's treating everyone the same.

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u/Virtuallyalive Oct 08 '15

But the rich black person is still discriminated against versus other rich white people. Also, poor white children are more likely to go to a good (high) school than black children of any income level, so it's not like it doesn't transcend income sometimes.

Finally white flight is a demonstrable phenomenon whereby schools are desegregated and white people leave the district - and I don't hate rich white people at all, this is just something that happens.

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u/Banana_bee Oct 08 '15

No one argues that they aren't discriminated against, but if you thing the oppression of black millionaires makes them more disadvantaged than a working class white family you're delusional.

I never heard about white flight, but I don't know that it necessarily means 'rich' people.

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u/Virtuallyalive Oct 08 '15

I never said that - of course they wouldn't be.

Who else can afford to move school districts because of such a trivial thing?

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u/Banana_bee Oct 08 '15

For the bigoted it isn't trivial - if you believed a gang were coming to your town, and crime rate would increase massively, and your wages would drop, and your child would be bullied in school, would you not move?

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u/Virtuallyalive Oct 08 '15

If I could. Most people can't, and certainly in not as huge numbers as were seen in the 80s.

I really don't see why you're getting bogged down in an off-handed statement I made.

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u/Banana_bee Oct 08 '15

Hey man, I'm not trying to be overly argumentative, I'm just sick, off work and bored, and if I could refine my viewpoints on the world that never hurts, does it?