this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
326 points (95.8% liked)
The Right Can't Meme
867 readers
1 users here now
About
This community is about making fun of dumb right wing memes. Here you will find some of the cringiest memes that the right has ever posted on the internet.
Rules
-
All posts must be memes containing right wing cringe
-
No unrelated content
-
No bigotry
-
Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No Exceptions.
Other Communities
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
While America has it especially bad, because of our history with black slavery, the subject isn't limited to America by any means, and isn't limited to black people.
For example, the camera issue I discussed above is not limited to the US.
Racism exists all over the world. And anywhere that racism exists, and the racists held authority or leadership positions, you will find applications of critical race theory. Because even really, really subtle racism gets institutionalized in crazy, unexpected ways.
EDIT: I'll add that it's not just race either. There are all sorts of weird ways that preferential treatment of the majority in power sneaks into our lives.
Here's a silly one: Novelty coffee mugs are biased against left handed people. No joke.
The mug example is an excellent example of systemic or institutional bias.
It's worth explaining.
No one sat down and said "we're only going to make right handed mugs".
It's just that most people and therefore most designers are right handed so when they are designing the mug they imagine it in their own hand. Et voilà, most mugs are for right handers.
This goes one step further: a template is made for said right hand mug, now all the left handed designers are also designing right handed mugs.
There's also the fact that there was a concerted effort to beat left-handedness out of people for a very very long time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_people
If you go down to Unfavourable Perceptions, there's a load of info on this. Efforts in North America to switch everyone to right-handedness ended around ghe 60s and lefties were more socially accepted by the late 70s. That said there's still a lot of places in Asia that attempt to force lefties to be righties.
My mum is a leftie and in school was beaten for writing with her left hand.
Hell, the word "sinister" meaning "evil" in modern English comes from that bias, etymologically it means something to do with the left hand side.