You're viewing competition with too much generalization. If two people are trying to get a job, the person who is more qualified would get the job in a merit system and the loser would go and get a worse job. This system works because we get the best people for a job doing said job. Yes, competition creates conflict, but there is no way to create a system of merit that creates the best people doing jobs without having conflict. What you are suggesting would lead to a breakdown of society and probably soviet-esque starvation.

You're correct. The Postmodern idea that the west has risen to greatness because of racism and that the success of the west is due to the exploitation of other races is absurd. It is well known that the rise to dominance of the west and specifically in the US was due to a free market system and classical liberalism. I find it hilarious when people seem to believe that the only group that has been racists throughout history was white people. Indians, Persians, Africans and Chinese people all engaged in slavery as well, and the idea that the west was the sole racists in the world is absurd. The other comment that someone posted here talks about being "White" as a philosophy. That is an extremely racists comment and should not be tolerated, seeing as it borders on hate speech.