"As a young, straight, white, cis male, it was easy for him to assume that those folks were incompetent"
I closed the tab at this point.
Sorry, no.
I closed the tab at this point.
Sorry, no.
Ageism is real. Sexism is real. Racism is real. Homophobia has become less common but is still real and if you’re trans I can imagine it’s like what I heard from gay friends in the 90s. In all of those cases, I’ve heard many stories about people being asked to prove themselves in ways I’ve never been challenged, or low-balled on offers and getting serious pushback on negotiation. A common rule of thumb was that it takes one degree to cancel out each one of those things you are not, and while I’ve heard some fellow white guys question that I’ve never heard anyone else I know disagree.
Which is what started this whole sub-thread, after all.
That may be the "goal". Whether public drag-outs as displayed in the OP serve to achieve that is another matter entirely.
It was puerile nonsense. It doesn't have the property of being true of false.
As is the "Gosh, looks like these heavy truths we're laying down are making you uncomfortable" insinuation you're making.
I judge most people's competence long before I am aware of their cis or straight status, and often age as well.
How many of us think the anti-white narrative is extremely harmful?
I am white and I am a good person. I have done nothing wrong. Why should I feel negative?
I just read an article from a woman who was raped by her transgender friend and then was called transphobic when she threatened to call the cops. Meanwhile comments calling pretty much calling her a white supremacist.
I think some of these whiney kids need to speak to their elders to see how life was when there was real discrimination.
I don't apologize for my skin tone and you shouldn't have to apologize for that either.
Instead of asking you to feel guilty about who you are, we’re asking you to consider the differences in the way society as a whole treats people of your identity compared to other identities. It’s not about which groups are better or worse, though I agree some of the rhetoric can come across that way.