The straight white male is the most discriminated person in America.

Hello ericjpomeroy. Good topic. Half of me agrees with pro's contention, but the other half that can separate facts from gut reaction disagrees. Whenever my girlfriend or mother is watching lifetime, I begin to feel that all of the female gender blames the ills of the world on men, and that the only good male is the one that not just jumps when a woman commands him to jump, but also asks "how high". We get brought up in school hearing about what our fore-fathers did to native americans and blacks. On the face of it, it seems that everyone hates "the man", who we all know to be "the white man". But let me be brief, for now, about why I this hatred at white men is superficial at best. I often hear from women of all stripes that men are the source of all of their problems, and the problems of the country and the world. Some of this might be true, but I find that women hate themselves and each other more than they hate men. While I often hear women disparage men, much more often I hear them disparage themselves. They tear apart what another woman is wearing, what she is saying, how she is acting, etc. Women constantly feel like they are in competition with each other over men. They try to outdo each other, buying the cutest outfit they can find from Victoria's Secret or the latest bag from Coach, not only because they think men will pay attention (though most of us couldn't care less), but they do it much more to outdo their fellow woman. Only when they temporarily get tired of the constant competition amongst themselves do they stop and blame men for supposedly "making" them do all these things. Again, however, they assume we care. Ask most any woman. They will corroborate this. As for native americans, while some of them might pay lip service to the rhetoric of denouncing white men for what we did to them during the 1600-1800s, I contend that the majority of them are past it. The majority of them might recognize that what white men did to them back then was horrible, but that this is 2008 and they should live in the modern day. Even if they did all hate us as much as pro contends, their numbers as a percentage of the country's total population show that their hate wouldn't amount to much. The same is true for blacks. What white men did to them throughout slavery was horrible, and we should all remember what happened, but many blacks contend that we should live in the here and now. Perhaps more blacks than native americans harbor a personal hatred towards white men for slavery, jim crow, and segregation, but not all of them do. My point is that, even is a majority of blacks genuinely hated "the white man", they only make up about 16% of the total population, so that hate doesn't add up to much numerically. Even if some of these groups do harbor genuine hatred for white men, lets remember that the vast majority of them don't hate ALL white men. Women, native americans, and blacks have much more love for Bill Clinton than, perhaps, Newt Gingrich or some other representative of conservative, white America. If the premise of this debate was that conservative, white men are the most hated people in the country, I would probably agree. Lumping in all white men in the same category as being more universally hated than everyone else makes that contention false. I intended to make my argument much more brief than this. Sorry.