Sexism and racism is inherently linked to power, in such a way that women can't (really) be sexist towards men, and black people can't (really) be racist towards white people.
Yes there are exceptions, I don't want someone to bring up some 3,000 year old civilization that was dominated by black people where they had more privilege.
Racism and sexism are inherently a privilege issue, you can bring up all the cases you want of hate crimes against men from extremists or hate crimes against white people from black people - but it's not racism.
It's discrimination.
If you want to make a case against this then you can prove that women have more privilege than men, or that black people have more privilege than white people.
Maybe it's sad to say that this is primarily the american scope that I'm speaking of, I'm an american so I'm more in tune with american politics and the racial scope in this area.
those are issues like racial inequality (systematic racism with higher incineration rates for the same crime, shootings, etc), discrimination, how african americans/minorities in general are far more likely to be living in poverty, and generally how economically speaking, our system of government is set up in a way that tends to keep people with no financial prospects in poverty)
there's also gender issues, primarily the concept of gender roles and their huge influence on society being one of the big ones.
i don't think some of these white coal miners who are heroin and meth addicts and can't get clean drinking water come from any place of privilege just because of their skin color
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the stigma pushing men away from jobs that are considered feminine is much greater than the stigma pushing women away from masculine jobs.
when i say -the system-, i literally just mean the society that we live in is framed in that way. people argue a lot about what specifically is the cause of that, and how to fix it.
stop trying to be condescending and dismissing my points as if it were trolling
women have a 2 to 1 advantage in getting STEM jobs. Even in college admissions.
They're not in STEM as much from gender differences.
Nothing is stopping women today from doing what they want to do. There are no structural blocks to stop women. If anything, there are structural advantages that only exist to help women in the name of 'diversity'
i don't think that -you- specifically oppress people, but rather, you and i both live in a system that has oppressed people of different genders/races for a very long time. to make a very really complex topic short, the idea is that the way our society does not have racial/gender equality makes the people at the top with the most privilege unknowing participants in the system by refusing to do anything to stop it. the point is that people are ignorant of the fact that the system we live in oppresses other people.
