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Two reasons: Short people have not faced anywhere near the scale of injustices as Black people in America historically have, so there is not much of a cultural
by lifeformed 4y ago
Two reasons:
Short people have not faced anywhere near the scale of injustices as Black people in America historically have, so there is not much of a cultural desire to right the wrongs done to short people or people with slightly lower facial symmetry.
Secondly, all those characteristics are subjective, and are continuous measurements, not discrete properties. How do you define short or unattractive?
- xenocratus 4y agohttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/715141 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/715141 > Notably, the magnitude of the earnings disparities along the perceived attractiveness continuum, net of controls, rivals and/or exceeds in magnitude the black-white race gap and, among African-Americans, the black-white race gap and the gender gap in earnings
- notahacker 4y agoThat's equal to the black-white and gender gap after affirmative action programs and laws making penalising minorities and women in hiring processes illegal though....
- xenocratus 4y agoDoes it matter? The discussion above is about people obsessing right now about a subset of characteristics, while ignoring others. What happened happened, we should worry about what we can do right now to improve fairness.
- feanaro 4y agoHow is race a discrete, and not a continuous, property? It seems quite obviously continuous too.
- ibrahimsow1 4y agoRace isn't a discrete category. Ethnicity is closer to what you're describing.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago>How is race a discrete, and not a continuous, property? The "one drop of blood" school of thought.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
- samatman 4y ago'Race' is a thought-stopping way to categorize humans, but if we replace it with 'ancestry' rather than 'Census designation category' we can at least state with confidence that ancestry is a discrete property, one is simply descended from another person or one isn't. It doubles with each generation (this stops being true remarkably quickly but let's use single-static-assignment to ignore cousin marriage), so while someone with perfect information could say "so-and-so has precisely 14 ancestors from West Africa in a generation where the remaining 242 ancestors are all European", it's easier to say they're 5% African-descended. Or Black, by the old American rules around race. I did say it's a thought-stopping category.