Comment by [deleted] on 31/01/2017 at 11:02 UTC

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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community

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Comment by TheJaice at 31/01/2017 at 15:57 UTC

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You're not the only person who took offense to that sentence, and I just wanted to apologize for the confusion. Just to explain why I included that part, is that white males in his age range are generally portrayed as the most anti-immigration. A lot of people assume because of his age and ethnicity that he is anti-immigration. People tend to forget that it hasn't been that long since white immigrants also faced discrimination.

So the "despite being a white male" part was kind of ironic sarcasm on my part, since I've spent a lot of my adulthood being argued with that white males can't experience discrimination.