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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 e
by lakomen 4y ago
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?
- Y_Y 4y agoIf 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.
- esprehn 4y agoFrom a quick Google search it looks like both Heterosexual and Cisgender have flags, ex. https://prideflags.info/ https://prideflags.info/
- woofyman 4y agoYou’ve never had to fight for basic human rights as a white straight person.
- joxel 4y agoI don’t think this is true?
- bonbonbonj 4y agoWhat 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.
- kergonath 4y agoThat 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?
- woofyman 4y agoI didn’t say other marginalized groups don’t have to fight for human rights.
- dang 4y agoI'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 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThere 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.
- pvaldes 4y ago> 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.
- spicymaki 4y ago> 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_flag
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> 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.)