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Thus apparently extends to gender or rather sexuality as well recently. I've been banned for asking why my sexuality - heterosexual, is excluded, actually not even asked why but if a flag representing my sexuality existed, since there were a bunch of flags that represented every possible spectrum, even asexuality.

I am not at all racist, my best friend has dark skin, but I also can't help but notice that on social networks there's always that black* group/tag/community never do you see white,red, yellow, only ever black. I do find that quite racist and exclusive. If we're all the same, why does such distinction exist?

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> I am not at all racist, my best friend has dark skin, but I also can't help but notice that on social networks there's always that black* group/tag/community never do you see white,red, yellow, only ever black. I do find that quite racist and exclusive.

That is not remotely true, if I log into Reddit I can find subreddits with white, black, Spanish, German, Japanese, Indian, French, Jamaican, etc. topics as well several subcategories such as Valencian etc. I am not sure what or where you are looking.

I don’t think Native Americans go by red or East Asian people yellow as well honestly. What social networks are banning you?

There is a heterosexual flag here if you need one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag

> I don’t think Native Americans go by red or East Asian people yellow as well honestly.

You're wrong about that; the Chinese do refer to themselves as yellow. (It's not a native tradition there - it's taken from the old Western taxonomy. But it's still current.)

If you want representation for red-skinned people you should go to the popular tourist spots in Spain and find some British people. Outside of that I don't think there are many people who'd identify themselves that way.

From a quick Google search it looks like both Heterosexual and Cisgender have flags, ex. https://prideflags.info/

You’ve never had to fight for basic human rights as a white straight person.

What if the commenter is female, or disabled, or doesn't own property, or is subject to the many other axes of marginalization?

It's not all about race and sexuality.

He specifically asked about a straight flags.

Non property owners are discriminated against?

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag

I don’t think this is true?

That is such a myopic, stupid take. How do you even know? Are you somehow deluded enough to believe that even in western countries nobody has to fight for basic human rights? Fuck, half of Americans’ basic human rights are in flux right now, have you been paying attention?

I didn’t say other marginalized groups don’t have to fight for human rights.

I'm late here, but you broke the site guidelines extremely badly. We ban accounts that post like this, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

There are places in the world where this is not true, particularly Zimbabwe and South Africa. By the western definition of "white," which includes Arabs and middle easterners, this is not true even in the most "tolerant" parts of the west.

> You’ve never had to fight for basic human rights as a white straight person.

Look for the etymology of the term "slave". You will be surprised.

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