An Easier Life

Easier

Although I'd love to see more class-conscious memes and activism.

Yes, it's harder to be black/hispanic/asian in many places. Yes, it's harder to be a woman. Yes, it's harder to be LGBT, especially T. But what really sucks so hard and hits almost all of us (and minorities often get it even worse due to workplace discrimination and lower rates of ownership!) is the oppression of the working class.

Our most unscrupulous and evil oppressors don't lose all that much from retranslating slogans about equality between people of all genders, races, sexual orientations etc.; in fact, they will play chameleon and pretend to support any dominant rhetoric - except the one that can actually make a giant change, but at their expense - the rhetoric of a class war. Combine this with corporate power and reach, and you'll see how we got to addressing literally anything but not the elephant in the room.

Worker-led societies generally promote equal access to jobs, education and services to people of all ethnicities, genders and other traits, bolster a culture of global friendship and cooperation, and promote sustainable development that puts people - all people - first.

It's in our common interest to put class war as our very first priority - for the greater good of us all.

Yes, it’s harder to be a woman.

Depends heavily on context. For example, for virtually anything involving the criminal justice system it's easier to be a woman. In some careers it's easier to be a woman (for example, anything to do with children). I could come up with more examples if you want.
- Sure, I meant overall and in a wide sense. There is plenty of instances where being a man is harder, there are places where being white could lead to discrimination against you, etc. etc.
  
  But that is beyond my point.
Where is it harder to be hispanic or black? In Hispanola or Africa? Life isn't equally oppressive across the entire world
- Oh, me, me! I'm based in the US, but here are a few 🤗
  
  It's harder for us to get loans for businesses. Most financial services are either harder or more expensive (Ex: You live in the hood and want to start a business, the area you're in is "coded" a certain way, and you get higher loan rates because they assume you to be more risky by default)
  
  A lot of POC are behind in generational wealth/security because they were barred from communities and businesses that could have been passed down
  
  We are paid less
  
  Neighborhoods with high POC population usually get less funding
  
  Less political power because of how the counties were purposely broken up, so our voices aren't heard as loudly
  
  Racial profiling
  
  We are more likely to get arrested, and serve harsher sentences
  
  Until recently (and still in some places), natural kinky hair had to be "fixed."
  
  Colorism
  
  People with heavy accents (not limited to Hispanics of course) can have a harder time at jobs, especially if they're phone base as people can be mad disrespectful
  
  In our current political environment, Latin Americans are the target of a lot of vitriol, illegal or not
  
  I can't speak for Latin Americans, but when traveling, Black people have to worry about different things like: Are they racist? If so, how much? Will they let me in businesses? If I'm going for work, will they let me? If I'm not rich, will I still be treated well? We can't just go back packing, because many countries will not be hospitable, either due to race, skin color, or both
  
  Being spoken too in slang because they assume that's how you talk
  
  For hobbies, cosplay. POC are routinely dragged for not being the right color or what have you
  
  For kids, they are seen as older and more dangerous than other non-POC their age and therefore are treated harsher
  
  "Don't send no Mexicans to my house" - Actual customer
  
  Even if you get a job, you may be taken off a job because of your skin (there are plenty of stories of people who refuse POC doctors, nurses, etc. I personally was not able to teach a child when abroad because of my skin color, even though I was the only one with a degree).
  
  Having your name, apperence, hair style mocked, until it's been absorbed by white culture and becomes "cool."
  
  Having your accolades covered up or ignored (A modern example would be that Renegade dance. The creator was a black girl, but a white girl took off with it. They even had her teaching a dance she didn't create)
  
  If a show or movie has a POC in it, you have to brace yourself for cries of "wokeness," even before the movie is out
  
  Being assumed as a diversity hire, regardless of your cardentials
  
  Something a bit more basic, but make up, hair products, etc. A lot of viral trends are shown on pale skin only, and some popular products don't make darker colors at all, or very few shades. It wasn't until I was in high school that I could find my regular hair products outside of a beauty supply shop.
  
  POC women and girls are hyper sexualized and are often see as the cause for physical and sexual abuse instead of the victim
  
  "You speak so well."
  
  "Are you the first person in your family to finish highschool/college?"
  
  Being the only black kid on the class when they start the slavery lessons.
  
  "Don't you speak English!?"
  
  For black women, we are routinely mocked not just outside our race, but inside. Many black men don't fuck with black women because they drank the kool-aid
  
  Having to regulate your feelings because you don't want to be the "angry" black person
  
  "Oh, I didn't meant you. You're one of the good ones."
  
  Of course, these have different levels of severity, some of these are not just applicable to POC, but this was a sampler of you will. Hope that helps!
  
  Thanks for the list! I'd be a dirty liar if I said none of the points applied to Canada, as I've experienced 3 of those personally. But not the entire list. Seems to me that the US is not a very good place to be non-Aryan. So why not move somewhere cooler?
  
  Can't afford it myself, and I don't know any country lacking insurance adjusters 😅
  
  non-Aryan
  
  I'd say it's not a good place to be Aryan at all.
  
  And maybe you shouldn't misuse the same words the Nazis intentionally misused in the future.
  
  I'd say the term has since been appropriated, the same way that all facial tissues are mostly referred to as kleenex. If the proper Aryans wanted exclusive right to the name, they should have made more use of it
  
  Yeah, stupid ethnic group just allowing a genocidal European nation on another continent co-opt their identity like that!
  
  Just like those other people from India just allowing Europeans to call the people indigenous to the Americas by that name too.
  
  Clearly if they were superior, like ~~white people~~ true Aryans, they would have protected the name by international trademark.
  
  Finally, someone gets it. If trademarking intellectual property was wrong, Disney wouldn't have pioneered the field!
  
  It was super clear what the other commenter meant, and you're just looking for conflict and thought policing everywhere I met you. Don't.
  
  The reports of my psychic powers have been greatly exaggerated.
- Sure, fair point. In certain places, it might actually be harder to be white, even.
  
  That's just a general statement on my side, a kind of example.

Well as long as racism exists and is prevalent, we got it "not as hard".

Such a strawman, lol. The comic clearly says 'eas_ier_'

Im just saying the blue man needs to check his prejudices
- It's not prejudiced, though.
  
  inb4 but I'm white and had a hard life - it could've been even harder.
  
  Depends on where you was born, like maybe life is easier for blue people wherever the blue man was from

Easier, not easy.