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9/16/2016 5:53:48 PM
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Why are we so intent on labeling people? People are people and we are all the same, using words like this basically allows us to segregate ourselves from each other. Sometimes labels are useful but too many just causes ructions in humanity.
I really don't need more words to describe people in ways that don't actually mean much to me.
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You're right. Labels can be harmful. I agree that everyone is a person and deserves equality. At the same time, ya gotta admit that at this moment not everyone is equal. There's still a lot of prejudice towards LGBT+ people. In a lot of places you can lose your job because you're a transgender person. And beyond that we still have social systems that favor straight white cisgender men. We've made a lot of progress to be sure! I'm not saying that racial and sexual prejudice are at the same levels they used to be, but it wouldn't be accurate to say that racism, sexism, and LGBT+ oppression is over. tl;dr labels are useful for defining and explaining the oppression that still exists today, in the hopes that we might end that oppression.
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I live in the UK where it's completely illegal to fire or conversely not hire someone because they're not heterosexual or the gender they were born as, or on their colour or disability providing it doesn't affect their ability to do the job. So really I'm sitting here getting annoyed at America for clutching their Bible and asses too tight.
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Yeah I can't speak on the state of equality in the UK, but here in the good ol' US of A we have a lot of work to do. :( makes me sad
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Well, here in the UK it's very much equal opportunity. Unfortunately women still argue over equal outcome but that's just stupid, they have the opportunity to take it. Anyways, America is just the world's social experiment, you -blam!- up faster than everyone else so we watch, laugh at you, and learn.
