> backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans
Are cis/white people are often discriminated against?
Are cis/white people are often discriminated against?
The saddest part is that the USA is the least racist country in the history of the world, and were in our least racist era only 20 years ago. Seems like most of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement has been lost since.
> There's no "power" component to racism. That was recently "added"
No it wasn’t particularly recent in the history of the term “racism”; The popular expression “prejudice plus institutional power” is more than 50 years old (1970), the idea probably older, and the word “racism” itself is less than 120 years old.
> The saddest part is that the USA is the least racist country in the history of the world
The saddest part is that people believe that as an article of faith.
> and were in our least racist era only 20 years ago.
We were in the era of least concern about racism around 20 years ago, which happened to correspond to the end of an expansion that unlike those since had not just strong aggregate numbers bit decent distributional features on both income quintile and race dimensions.
I'm not a big fan of the word games that people play these days, but I would otherwise mostly agree with those people. the status of the person/people discriminating against you makes a big difference. the worst example I can think of from my own life was when a DMV employee went out of her way to fail me on my driver's license test. another employee told me she only lets black kids pass. that sucked, but I went back the next day and passed with a different employee.
anyways, all I'm saying is people discriminate on the basis of race/gender/sexuality all the time. cis-hetero-rich-white dudes are not spared entirely, but the consequences tend to be minor in comparison.
Did you see "OFTEN"?
The parent post was clearly implying that non-trans people are facing significant discrimination rather than the opposite.