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What always strikes me when reading articles/entries like this or the Paper Tigers article itself is how opaque the unique difficulties people in subcultures or
by elbrodeur 15y ago
What always strikes me when reading articles/entries like this or the Paper Tigers article itself is how opaque the unique difficulties people in subcultures or minority cultures face. Not only that they exist, but why they exist: Usually, the issue is so nuanced as to be seemingly unalterable.
Take, for example, incarceration rates and the likelihood of incarceration by race. At face value it's absurd that being born a black male means you are more likely to go to jail than a white male born at the same exact instant. It's just as absurd that other minority populations are seemingly systemically disallowed from positions of executive authority in businesses.
Obviously the reasons for these difference are incredibly difficult to parse and weight; how do you go about correcting this aberration?
I guess learning things like this make me frustrated and confused.
- joebadmo 15y agoI think it's hard to talk about because it's often systemic, invisible, and cultural simultaenously. Even when it becomes visible, it's easy for one side to blame the culture and the other side to blame the system, when both are probably to blame, and there's a symbiosis between the two.