Easier
Although I’d love to see more class-conscious memes and activism.
Yes, it’s harder to be black/hispanic/asian in many places. Yes, it’s harder to be a woman. Yes, it’s harder to be LGBT, especially T. But what really sucks so hard and hits almost all of us (and minorities often get it even worse due to workplace discrimination and lower rates of ownership!) is the oppression of the working class.
Our most unscrupulous and evil oppressors don’t lose all that much from retranslating slogans about equality between people of all genders, races, sexual orientations etc.; in fact, they will play chameleon and pretend to support any dominant rhetoric - except the one that can actually make a giant change, but at their expense - the rhetoric of a class war. Combine this with corporate power and reach, and you’ll see how we got to addressing literally anything but not the elephant in the room.
Worker-led societies generally promote equal access to jobs, education and services to people of all ethnicities, genders and other traits, bolster a culture of global friendship and cooperation, and promote sustainable development that puts people - all people - first.
It’s in our common interest to put class war as our very first priority - for the greater good of us all.
Yes, it’s harder to be a woman.
Depends heavily on context. For example, for virtually anything involving the criminal justice system it’s easier to be a woman. In some careers it’s easier to be a woman (for example, anything to do with children). I could come up with more examples if you want.
Where is it harder to be hispanic or black? In Hispanola or Africa? Life isn’t equally oppressive across the entire world
Oh, me, me! I’m based in the US, but here are a few 🤗
- It’s harder for us to get loans for businesses. Most financial services are either harder or more expensive (Ex: You live in the hood and want to start a business, the area you’re in is “coded” a certain way, and you get higher loan rates because they assume you to be more risky by default)
- A lot of POC are behind in generational wealth/security because they were barred from communities and businesses that could have been passed down
- We are paid less
- Neighborhoods with high POC population usually get less funding
- Less political power because of how the counties were purposely broken up, so our voices aren’t heard as loudly
- Racial profiling
- We are more likely to get arrested, and serve harsher sentences
- Until recently (and still in some places), natural kinky hair had to be “fixed.”
- Colorism
- People with heavy accents (not limited to Hispanics of course) can have a harder time at jobs, especially if they’re phone base as people can be mad disrespectful
- In our current political environment, Latin Americans are the target of a lot of vitriol, illegal or not
- I can’t speak for Latin Americans, but when traveling, Black people have to worry about different things like: Are they racist? If so, how much? Will they let me in businesses? If I’m going for work, will they let me? If I’m not rich, will I still be treated well? We can’t just go back packing, because many countries will not be hospitable, either due to race, skin color, or both
- Being spoken too in slang because they assume that’s how you talk
- For hobbies, cosplay. POC are routinely dragged for not being the right color or what have you
- For kids, they are seen as older and more dangerous than other non-POC their age and therefore are treated harsher
- “Don’t send no Mexicans to my house” - Actual customer
- Even if you get a job, you may be taken off a job because of your skin (there are plenty of stories of people who refuse POC doctors, nurses, etc. I personally was not able to teach a child when abroad because of my skin color, even though I was the only one with a degree).
- Having your name, apperence, hair style mocked, until it’s been absorbed by white culture and becomes “cool.”
- Having your accolades covered up or ignored (A modern example would be that Renegade dance. The creator was a black girl, but a white girl took off with it. They even had her teaching a dance she didn’t create)
- If a show or movie has a POC in it, you have to brace yourself for cries of “wokeness,” even before the movie is out
- Being assumed as a diversity hire, regardless of your cardentials
- Something a bit more basic, but make up, hair products, etc. A lot of viral trends are shown on pale skin only, and some popular products don’t make darker colors at all, or very few shades. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I could find my regular hair products outside of a beauty supply shop.
- POC women and girls are hyper sexualized and are often see as the cause for physical and sexual abuse instead of the victim
- “You speak so well.”
- “Are you the first person in your family to finish highschool/college?”
- Being the only black kid on the class when they start the slavery lessons.
- “Don’t you speak English!?”
- For black women, we are routinely mocked not just outside our race, but inside. Many black men don’t fuck with black women because they drank the kool-aid
- Having to regulate your feelings because you don’t want to be the “angry” black person
- “Oh, I didn’t meant you. You’re one of the good ones.”
Of course, these have different levels of severity, some of these are not just applicable to POC, but this was a sampler of you will. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the list! I’d be a dirty liar if I said none of the points applied to Canada, as I’ve experienced 3 of those personally. But not the entire list. Seems to me that the US is not a very good place to be non-Aryan. So why not move somewhere cooler?
