An Easier Life

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And will also inherit white fragility, it seems.

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"Just every other aspect of your life."

I don't remember if it does in Stick of Truth, but it does affect some things in Fractured But Whole.

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The race thing is just a diversion from the fact that financial prosperity is the true great division that separates us. But just keep believing that white people have it easier just because they're white, because that's much better for the oligarchs.

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To be fair black people have been forcibly kept in lower class by white people

2ugly2live

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!

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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?

Schadrach

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.

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Maybe the genie is not actually obligated to grant wishes, and could just turn you inside out if they wanted to.

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Hope they made him suburban rich too

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We can't deny systematic racism. It's totally baked in.

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Racism itself is promoted and maintained by the ruling class because white supremacy serves to undermine class consciousness. The same playbook is uses for other forms of marginalization, but race is the most strongly maintained in the United States due to chattel slavery and the ruling class' investment in it.

What this means is that while class is the major material dividing line that societal forces follow, racism is also a potent force. Just because it gets the oxygen it needs to survive from the continued class war does not mean that racism itself does not exist and make the lives of black people, brown people, etc harder. And white people do have it easier just because they're white. So if you say otherwise, those who know better will not listen to you.

So, instead of going the route that dismisses the impact of racism, instead acknowledge that class and race oppressions are intertwined and that the former drives the latter, so we need to end capitalism in order to undo marginalization. And to do so in solidarity means you also need to take an anti-racist line and stand in solidarity with marginalized people.

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Can't afford it myself, and I don't know any country lacking insurance adjusters

Flying Squid

I think you need to look at prison sentencing disparities if you don't think white people have it easier than black people.

Flying Squid

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.

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I need to watch the wishmaster series. Of all the stuff with the concept of evil genies that twist the meaning of wishes into anything BUT the intention of the wisher, it would be that. Or so I heard.

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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

Flying Squid

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.

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Finally, someone gets it. If trademarking intellectual property was wrong, Disney wouldn't have pioneered the field!

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ah, good point.