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Stop Saying White Mortality Is Rising
It’s an argument that relies on misinterpreting the data.
.....a paper that received much well-deserved attention, other countries and U.S. nonwhites have seen large declines in death rates, something like 20 percent. That finding was certainly true—but what received far more attention was their secondary point, that American middle-aged whites were not experiencing these same declines and, in fact, faced an increasing mortality rate.
What seems to be happening is that non-Hispanic white women, aged 45–54, are experiencing an increase in mortality, and everyone else seems to keep making gains.
Some of you read the thread(s) the last couple of days where the RWNJ white males were dying sooner?/faster?/younger? than others because they (over)indulged in booze, crappy food, cigs and committed suicide.
I was astounded that so many posters agreed and blamed it on people of color. I guess because those scoundrels were forcing the poor white males to eat, drink, smoke themselves to death and if that didn't work, commit suicide.
FACT is however, its simply not true. And, even it were true, take responsibility for your own actions. If you don't want to die young, you know what to do. You've been hearing it all your life and you hated Michelle Obama for saying it all again and wanting to save your children from what you are too damn stupid to learn.
It’s an argument that relies on misinterpreting the data.
.....a paper that received much well-deserved attention, other countries and U.S. nonwhites have seen large declines in death rates, something like 20 percent. That finding was certainly true—but what received far more attention was their secondary point, that American middle-aged whites were not experiencing these same declines and, in fact, faced an increasing mortality rate.
What seems to be happening is that non-Hispanic white women, aged 45–54, are experiencing an increase in mortality, and everyone else seems to keep making gains.
Some of you read the thread(s) the last couple of days where the RWNJ white males were dying sooner?/faster?/younger? than others because they (over)indulged in booze, crappy food, cigs and committed suicide.
I was astounded that so many posters agreed and blamed it on people of color. I guess because those scoundrels were forcing the poor white males to eat, drink, smoke themselves to death and if that didn't work, commit suicide.
FACT is however, its simply not true. And, even it were true, take responsibility for your own actions. If you don't want to die young, you know what to do. You've been hearing it all your life and you hated Michelle Obama for saying it all again and wanting to save your children from what you are too damn stupid to learn.
