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Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds
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Wealthy non-whites don't cause as much transport pollution as their melanin-lacking counterparts?
Oddly enough, it looks like the Guardian is the only one making this expressly about white men. I'm guessing demographically speaking, white men are the majority when it comes to transport pollution by rich people because the majority of rich people are white men.
Unfortunately bringing race into stuff still attracts more clicks from conservative and/or non-caucasian cohorts, in this case. The "rich white male" and "white privilege" stereotypes are just positive racism that's sadly still kicking around for this reason, despite the majority of people obviously not sharing any of the traits since birth, as if they get to decide that part of their life anyway. But we do see it a lot less, which makes me wonder who's going to be targeted by "racism, not racism" next. Hopefully never anything again like people from Muslim nations copped a couple decades ago. Thanks, media.
They do, but just the men.
they do but the headline would less click baiting if just said rich parasites are destroying the world...
90% of people would ask... does the bear shit in the woods?
But now we can do a circle jerk about some poor losers' "white pride" feelz being hurt.
Cheers!
You are in for quite a treat if you ever get to live in the world without being so ignorsntly racist. It truly is a much better place when wipe that shit off of your heart. We are all one big family, hating people because of how they were born hurts nobody as much as it hurts you.
Nobody is hating anybody here besides u being butthurt it seems
Your sole reason for commenting was to spew racist hate in the hopes that some like-minded degenerate would come along and agree with you. Maybe you did this so you might feel a little bit less alone in the world. What actually happened, though, is I shed some light on why it is that you feel so alone. It's because you look down on people for things that they can't help. It's OK if people are born into situations that are different from your own. If you start to embrace people's differences instead of fearing and hating them, you will find yourself in a much happier place.