White & Working Class Casualty Demographics in Afghanistan

[Sol Invictus]

Why do we continue to fight for our oppressors and against our own interests?

So, what we found was that the casualties there are—of course, they’re young, but they are mostly with a high school education. They don’t have more than a high school education. And they are overwhelmingly white. They’re not disproportionately black and Hispanic, which a lot of people think. They’re disproportionately white. [...]

They come from communities that are solidly working-class communities, that are—whose incomes in the communities are a little bit less than the median, so maybe $40,000. Forty-five thousand dollars a year is the median income in these counties. So, we look at the jobs, the occupations that the soldiers and sailors had, and also their parents, where we have that information.

In the United States, about 62 percent of the population are in the working class. But of the casualties, it’s 78 percent who are working-class people. And their mothers, it’s about 75 percent, and the fathers, 73 percent, working class. So, we’re really talking about a fighting force and a dying force that’s overwhelmingly working class, much more so than the country as a whole. [...]

But what’s really striking is that whites are way disproportionately represented in the casualties, and blacks and Hispanics underrepresented.

http://americanfront.info/2011/10/11/u-s-casualty-demographics-in-afghanistan-white-working-class/

[Loddfafner]

These endless wars have become merely a path for men to go test their manhood while the military test their strategies and equipment and the politicians dole out pork to the arms industries in their districts.

[Money Shot]

That shit you posted is pure fucking garbage.


I don't know where the info came from, or do I care. I can tell you that from my personal experience of being there it's a pantload.


Yes, the combat arms units are predominately white and hispanic, but blacks are represented as well. Also, support troops take thier share of casualties too.


As for the education levels of the troops currently serving, it's the highest it's been ever. Of any military in history.


Stop trying to reply that old tired out viet nam era mantra of only poor uneducated go to war. It's crap.


I don't know what's worse....people writing this shit or the people who regurgitate this garbage like it's fact.

[Magister Eckhart]

If whites are overrepresented in casualty lists, it likely has to do with the fact that Negroes and Hispanics are not involved in the military to do what soldiers are supposed to do, but are doing what they do in every other form of employment they take: nothing.

It's a plain fact that impoverished whites represent the most discriminated-against group of people in the United States: they are actively kept out of school by high tuitions, actively denied well-paying jobs and funnelled into unions, and suffer more than any other group from the sloth and parasitism that is promoted by social welfare programs for Negroes and sudacas. I am unsurprised that they are over-represented in the military and over-represented in casualty lists; I've met many blue-collar whites, and the one trait they all seem to share is earnestness. It's a pity to see such men fall in battle while their racial and cultural inferiors come home to a secure living provided by the American taxpayer.

[Sol Invictus]

As for the education levels ..

I don't know what's worse....people writing this shit or the people who regurgitate this garbage like it's fact.


The article they linked from Democracy Now was based on the work of Professor Michael Zweig from the State University of New York. His core research paper can be found here. (http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/publications/afghan_casualties.shtml)

[SwordoftheVistula]

Here's the actual statistics. Whites make up a greater portion of combat deaths than their portion of the population, Hispanics and even more so Blacks make up less:

http://usiraq.procon.org/files/1-us-iraq-images/chart-us-military-fatalities-in-iraq-by-gender-status-age-type-of-duty-and-race-ethnicity-for-all-fatalities-between-march-19-2003-and-may-3-2008.gif

[Joe McCarthy]

It will help white workers to surrender to Islam. Fact.

[Curtis24]

These endless wars have become merely a path for men to go test their manhood while the military test their strategies and equipment and the politicians dole out pork to the arms industries in their districts.

as it was, shall it ever be.

[Sol Invictus]

Here's the actual statistics. Whites make up a greater portion of combat deaths than their portion of the population, Hispanics and even more so Blacks make up less:

http://usiraq.procon.org/files/1-us-iraq-images/chart-us-military-fatalities-in-iraq-by-gender-status-age-type-of-duty-and-race-ethnicity-for-all-fatalities-between-march-19-2003-and-may-3-2008.gif

That's from a different conflict but very good to know.