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Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by omginternets on Saturday April 30, 2022 @05:45PM (#31219693)
>even if it isn’t as “bad” can’t it still recognized as a lesser form of bigotry?

Yes. In fact, that's exactly what I said.

It's also worth calling out the sheer madness of equating height discrimination to racism, and pretending not to see the problem.

Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by chrischen on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:02PM (#31219818)
They are equated under the principle of injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. You could make the argument that Black people have suffered more at the hands of society, but the injustice of both are in the same class: prejudice.
Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by omginternets on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:13PM (#31219914)
>You could make the argument that Black people have suffered more at the hands of society, but the injustice of both are in the same class: prejudice.

Again, this is exactly what I am saying.

I am also saying that you go further, and engage in an intellectual slight-of-hand. This happens precisely when you say "there's really no difference [...]".

Yes there is. There are several, important differences that render irrelevant their belonging to the same category. Abraham Lincoln and Pol Pot both belong to the category of "heads of state", but it is laughably incorrect to claim that there are no differences between them. So too with your example.

Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by lupire on Saturday April 30, 2022 @07:13PM (#31220400)
What you are failing to understand that there can be "no difference" between doing things, yet there is a large difference when one of them is done a lot more and more intensely than the other.

That's the difference between anti-short and anti-Black, not the anti-ness itself.

Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by joshuamorton on Saturday April 30, 2022 @09:55PM (#31221382)
"There's no difference between anti-shortness and anti-Blackness, except the intensity and commonality" is certainly a statement, its I guess correct in the tautological sense that "X and Y are not different if you exclude all the differences between them", but it's also not a useful statement at that point.

I'd ask in what way the point you're trying to make is useful, either analytically or rhetorically. I don't see how it is offhand.

Re:Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular by flyandscan88 on Sunday May 01, 2022 @05:33AM (#31223481)
They are not equivalent and I disagree with the OP's example. Racism is significantly worse. That doesn't mean heightism/lookism is not an injustice worth examining and discussing however