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There is no such thing as “reverse discrimination”. It's just discrimination.

• Forgeties79 1y ago
  I agree, reverse discrimination is not a thing, which is why it’s ridiculous when conservative politicians throw around the term as they dismantle various programs in schools and the workplace. I’m pointing it out and highlighting the absurdity of those assertions.
  • zahlman 1y ago
    > I agree, reverse discrimination is not a thing, which is why it’s ridiculous when conservative politicians throw around the term They don't throw that term around. They correctly call out discrimination that happens to go in an opposite direction from what you find politically convenient. People in your camp invented, probably unknowingly, the "reverse" terminology, because your narrative requires the premise that "discrimination" can definitionally only negatively impact certain groups of people. Which is how and why you can defend the other instances as "not a thing", even when you are shown proof of them occurring — they just don't fit your redefined terms. It is the same logic as "you can't be sexist against men", used to deny the sexism inherent in even the clearest situations. The framing is itself sexist — as it supposes that men are an inferior group not worthy of the philosophical protection of the term, nor of recognition of real and obvious harm inflicted upon them because they are men. (I have even seen attempts to spin such harms as primarily affecting women.) "Dismantling various programs" only has anything to do with discrimination where those programs are actually discriminatory. I have seen much dismantling of "programs" by conservatives that I strongly disagreed with, but not on those grounds.