can they?

I have been a white male all my life. I have spent the majority of that time as a self-identified Christian, although, I was never religious. I have never once thought I was being discriminated against for being white, for being Christian, for being thought that I was Christian, or for being thought of being conservative.

On the other hand, I HAVE been discriminated against for being male. When I was a teen I worked at a convenience store, and the store manager was a single mother. I found out later that her husband had messed around on her and ran off with another woman.

The company had a policy that if you get food safety training, you can get a raise. Of all the store employees (20 some female, and Willy as the only male employee), I scored the best on this test. I was the only employee who was denied a raise for taking this training.

I normally worked graveyard shift (11pm to 7am), and one day the store manager asked me to come back in to work a 9am to 5pm. Lacking enough sleep to concentrate, I fucked up a sale and undercharged. A week later the store manager called me into the office, threatened to call the police on me for stealing, and fired me.

Stealing was a big issue at the store, because the store was coming up short by thousands of dollars. They even had the regional manager come out and spy on the store at all hours of the day to try to figure out what was going on. It was still going on when I got fired.

About 2 years later my band had just finished a gig, and I stopped by the convenience store (in another town) to get something to drink. I ran into my old graveyard shift manager. As it turns out, the person who had been stealing thousands of dollars every month from the store was none other than the store manager who had fired me.

It's pretty rare that you find out that your old boss got sent away to serve some hard time. I gotta say, between playing to a sold out gig, and finding out about this, that made my night.

I am not white, nor Christian, but I think it's plain that WCC's are continually subject to race baiting, I mean just look at this board for an example, every thing a "Righty" does that a lib disagrees with is labeled as racism, but I would not go so far as to say that that they are necessarily discriminated against.

A lot of what WCC's call being ridiculed and being discriminated against is simply a matter of other groups "pushing back" WCC's have been in charge for so long they feel it is their right to tell everyone else how to live, so when people start pushing back, they claim they are being "picked on"

As for  Popular culture goes, you need only watch a few minutes of the mindless drivel that passes for prime time entertainment to notice that the guy, and especially the white guy is always dumber than either the kid, the woman, or the person of color, so yes I have to agree that there is a bias against WCC's in Pop culture. I guess it's not really a bias against WCC's  but more a matter of pandering to those people with no power, by ridiculing those people that people perceive to have all the power. These shows are designed to appeal to stupid people and what makes a stupid person feel better than a show that depicts his boss as a moron?

and lastly, speaking of pandering,  naturally WCC's are going to feel like FOX news  and talk radio are going to give them a "fairer" shake. If by fair you mean, "biased in their favor", just like the libs love MSNBC, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow et al.

Too bad the "children" had to hijack your thread, it had some promise to spark some actual conversation. until BV and Daffy took it over. BTW does Rosetta Stone sell a BV translator? I honestly have no fucking idea what he is talking about most of the time.

I mean, yea it exists, and it's wrong, but it doesn't really matter.  People will say racist shit to/about WASPs, but it won't really hurt anything other than a few feelings.  Bigotry flowing in the other direction has real consequences....economic disadvantage, housing discrimination, police brutality and harassment, disproportionately harsh punishment in the court system etc etc etc.  It isn't a double standard to acknowledge that some types of discrimination does damage and other types don't.  

Bigotry against whites (of all political stripes) is usually only relevant when some whiney ass dude is on the defensive about the fact that his whiteness affords him substantial privilege at the expense of others.  I'm sure if I take the time to read the responses to the OP, there will be many examples of such defensiveness.

Sure there is. It is not very wide spread but it happens. It is usually done by extremists, most of whom are of little consequence, but that does not negate their actions. The offenders are mostly white secularists.

I think that most who disagree with me are taking a point of view that is somewhat reverse logic of another common mistake that minorities cannot commit bigotry, racism, etc. for the stated reason that they do not have the power to carry out damaging actions. The reverse aspect or maybe better put, a corollary of logic flows from the idea that no one can commit bigotry, racism, etc. against a majority, since the majority has all the power. Untrue.

Verbal bigotry may not seemingly injure another to any measurable degree. But if a single third party is influenced by it then some damage is done. To defend it by telling the offended, even if they are in a majority, to grow thicker skin, quit whining, etc. is no true defense. The damage, no matter how small, was done.

Just because the effects are small does not change the fact that the original action was bigoted. The definition of bigotry and prejudice is not contingent on a matter of degree. One cannot be just a little bit bigoted.