Society lets you go from an asshole to "truther" with one word

[hershel_layton]

JWeinCom said:

Well half of those are bad examples anyway... but...

In 28 states you can be fired for being gay without recourse. There are people actively fighting to keep it this way. Gay people can not share benefits with their partners, adopt, and so on.

Women earn significantly less than men and are often perceived as less capable despite being otherwise qualified. Studies have shown biases towards labeling women as "chatty", "talkative", or "gossipy" even in cases where they have not been.

A skinny bodytype is definitely preferred. People underweight on BMI are perceived as healthier and more attractive than those within the normal range. Magazines photoshop already thing people to make them abnormally thin, then promise advice on how to reach these unattainable goals.

If you didn't realize when you were typing it, the common denominator in all of these examples is power. The top example is an example of people in power talking about the less powerful group. Quite often these groups have the power and influence to impose, or at least attempt to impose, their will on the less powerful group. So that's the difference here.

1) are you talking about the 75 cents per dollar thing?

 

2) No one likes people who talk too much. period. 

 

3) Healthier? I'm quite sure having your rib cage visible or have layers of fat isn't healthy at all. Then again, I don't know how humans think. I avoid social media and magazines a lot, so perhaps my ignorance may show due to not being more interested in the social world.

 

4) I understand some people have more advantages over the other. It's irritating when people use double standards. 

 

Here, look at this study: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

 

it's shown that blacks(even though they're only 20% of the population) commited 50% of all crime. Is that an issue? Of course it is. However, I will not ignore the fact that whites commited 40%, which is also a high number. Some people will choose to ignore anything a minority does and nitpick all mistakes from others. Whether if it'd be against men, whites, CIS, heterosexuals, Christians, and so on, I think the left has corrupted our process of judgement with a "agree or be an enemy" viewpoint.