Re:A textbook case in workplace discrimination
by sverige on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:22PM
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There's a world of difference between
1) being captured by your neighbors, sold to some tribe of slave traders, then resold to ship-owning slave traders, then resold at auction on a different continent, and finally landing on a plantation where the intentional and systematic removal of your human dignity is completed over years in squalid conditions, and
2) not having your company buy you a leather jacket while you're being paid a salary that puts you somewhere in the top 2% of all of humanity.
It's this sort of hyperbole that makes the problem less likely to be solved, since it makes it all seem relatively trivial.
1) being captured by your neighbors, sold to some tribe of slave traders, then resold to ship-owning slave traders, then resold at auction on a different continent, and finally landing on a plantation where the intentional and systematic removal of your human dignity is completed over years in squalid conditions, and
2) not having your company buy you a leather jacket while you're being paid a salary that puts you somewhere in the top 2% of all of humanity.
It's this sort of hyperbole that makes the problem less likely to be solved, since it makes it all seem relatively trivial.