Well that’s immensely selfish, innit.Exactly what I was saying about discrimination being against the individual. It makes no difference to you what the unemployment rate is of those like you.
A lot of us actually care about people besides ouselves.
So, interestingly, several of the people in this thread that you are hammering for not understanding the selfish “but what about me?” argument that you are making, have actually been denied jobs because of their race or gender. It has happened to me three times that were expressed to my face. Who knows how many times that were not blatantly expressed. And I amcertain if you asked some of the other posters who care about the systemic discrimination, you will find that they, too, have experienced it more than once.
And so, I (and possibly these others posting) care about the systemic part of this. And want to undo its today effects. I still care that the system is in place and the same people are likely to suffer it multiple times. I know that it is ongoing and detrimental, and a large number of people have accumulated harm from it. And I am not ashamed to put my energy into advocating for the people with the most accumulated harm first. And if it means I lose out on a job to aqualified black person, then I feel society benefits from decreased accumulated harm. There’s a lot to fix here, sometimes it’s hard work. I can rail against the generation before me who didn’t do the work and just rode the privilege, rather than whinging at the other people suffering from it today. And as it turns out, some white people are suffering - alongside me - due to that historic problem. Welcome aboard. You know who you should be mad at.
And as for the graphic, yes, 4% is supposed to be full employment, right? So there are statistically a lot of other jobs available?