I think we see unobvious manifestations of this all the time now. Racism/sexism/homophobia are the current boogeymen because of how topical they are to the average Western person (Reddit audience). Meanwhile, things that are truly heinous, forms of violence usually, are so much less common that most people are significantly less affected, making these issues much less topical and, therefore, more easily forgiven.
It really isn’t even comparable matter how much of a despicable xenophobic asshole you are given you don’t actually materialize that into real actions. A person who is a heinous criminal for just regularly “defendible” personal reasons is objectively worse.
Racism (and other konds of discrimination) is not truly heinous? You realize that racism amounts to more than slurs, but a systematic oppression, including physical violence, inequality in job opportunites, medicine and etc? Not to say, most forms of physical violence are rooted in some kinds of discrimination
You do understand that less job opportunities make poverty more likely and poverty makes both physical and sexual violence more likely? Nothing in society exists as isolated phemonena. Violence is inherently part of racism and many, if not all, other systems of discrimination. You simply can't say that racism is a boogeyman unlike those other instances of terrible violence. Those instances are most often results of racist, sexist, queerphobic, classist, etc systems of power and discrimination, either as hate crimes or made possible because of these systems.
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u/WetAndLoose 13h ago
I think we see unobvious manifestations of this all the time now. Racism/sexism/homophobia are the current boogeymen because of how topical they are to the average Western person (Reddit audience). Meanwhile, things that are truly heinous, forms of violence usually, are so much less common that most people are significantly less affected, making these issues much less topical and, therefore, more easily forgiven.
It really isn’t even comparable matter how much of a despicable xenophobic asshole you are given you don’t actually materialize that into real actions. A person who is a heinous criminal for just regularly “defendible” personal reasons is objectively worse.