Left out because I’m white

Im white myself, I was born with disabilities, quickly parents became poor due to becoming ill and poverty so bad at points they went without food, I went to roughest school in region the same school told me people from benefit backgrounds were lazy and would amount to nothing, gave free tuition to the middle class kids, grants for female students (who were mostly middle class in first place)

What is a minority to you? Race/sexuality only?

And as you say its a predominantly WHITE country, so of course we get more people in power being WHITE, now non white people are getting a free pass for their race which is bad for both white and non white people, theres a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.

Well duh black people want to be represented by another black. How would you feel if a black person wanted to represent the white race? They would not be relatable to the community and the community would not take that person seriously. A white person can't understand black struggles.

Im white myself, I was born with disabilities, quickly parents became poor due to becoming ill and poverty so bad at points they went without food, I went to roughest school in region the same school told me people from benefit backgrounds were lazy and would amount to nothing, gave free tuition to the middle class kids, grants for female students (who were mostly middle class in first place)

What is a minority to you? Race/sexuality only?

And as you say its a predominantly WHITE country, so of course we get more people in power being WHITE, now non white people are getting a free pass for their race which is bad for both white and non white people, theres a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.

if the course is majority black/muslim, doesn't it make sense if a black or muslim person respresents them? and if it's based on voting, surely it's not you who gets to decide if it's unfair or not, its a vote, thats how democracy works lmao. I grew up in central London+ attended mostly 95% white schools, still do. i understand it may be hard but at the end of the day, what exactly is it do you want to happen? get rid of all the black muslims to make a nice, all-white school?

Well duh black people want to be represented by another black. How would you feel if a black person wanted to represent the white race? They would not be relatable to the community and the community would not take that person seriously. A white person can't understand black struggles.

Minorities are people with disabilities, POC, LGBT people.

Exactly- "of course we get more people in power being white" - that is why people want minorities to have more roles.
I agree with your second point though.

Excuse me but I don’t hide in privilege. White privilege isn’t even a thing it’s working class white boys that are failing academically not black people.

Excuse me but I don’t hide in privilege. White privilege isn’t even a thing it’s working class white boys that are failing academically not black people.

Secretly most white people agree, but they would never dare say that they would rather be represented by a white person - they would have their lives torn apart for being a racist in no time.

That's true lol. White people can't stand not being privileged for 10 minutes.

I mean, unless you can prove otherwise, its undeniably true that on average, white people have an easier time in the UK than non-white people.

The point of my post, which seemed to fly right over your head, is that a large part of white privileged is majority-bias not racism. Majority bias is a really real and very hard thing to combat - people stick with what's similar to them and the largest group of 'similar' gains advantages over the smaller groups through favoring their own. What your finding is that now you have moved into an enviroment where your not the majority, the majority-bias is working aginst you, not for you, and that's causing you problems.

Which is pretty much exactly what minorities deal with in the majority of the UK.

Well duh black people want to be represented by another black. How would you feel if a black person wanted to represent the white race? They would not be relatable to the community and the community would not take that person seriously. A white person can't understand black struggles.

There are 2 representatives. That doesn’t mean they can stomp all over me because I’m not Muslim

It's not racist to be represented by someone from your race or community. You want someone who understands the community and the demographic and their problems. A white person would not understand the black community similarly a black person would not understand the white community.

I go to a London RG university, QMUL to be precise, and it seems being a white british student is the minority, and I’m always excluded because of this. I get passed over for everything to do with the students as they want a black Muslim person to represent them, and talk down to people from outside of London all of the time. I’ve spoken about this to a friend from Canada in my halls and they agree that as they’re not black or religious that no one seems to like them. What do I do?

Well duh black people want to be represented by another black. How would you feel if a black person wanted to represent the white race? They would not be relatable to the community and the community would not take that person seriously. A white person can't understand black struggles.

I get that but that doesn’t mean people can be rude to others because they’re not black or Muslim

agreed!


people are definitely uncomfortable with anything out of the norm. a lot of white people would feel intimidated to walk past a group of young, black people which is unacceptable as they would be making false assumptions. yes, if they seemed like they had weaponry with them, it is fair to feel intimidated. likewise, a group of young, white people would not be judged even if they did have weapons with them. its ridiculous!

White privilege is a thing, champ.

They can, if a black Muslim community want someone like them to represent them they can. What does a white non Muslim know or understand about this community? Answer is non, they know nothing about this community it would be inappropriate for such a person to represent them.

Are you saying because someone is black black people must represent them? Black struggles, like what? Plenty of black people represent me and my views as a white person.