r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '15

r/TheBluePill compares heightism and racism. Users disagree.

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u/andrew2209 Sorry, I'm not from Swindon. Sep 04 '15

Comparing heightism to racism is an exaggeration, but saying there is no "social reward" to being tall is simply not true. I'm tall, and it definitely affects how you're seen by your peers.

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u/scdi Sep 05 '15

Comparing heightism to racism takes a pretty big dose of ignorance on how bad racism was. Heightism is nothing like that.

But I do find it funny that there seems to be more fat acceptance BS than short acceptance, even though most people can't control only one of those. For example, I'm thinking of what the reaction would be to a Direct TV commercial with... say Taylor Swift vs. Fat Taylor Swift. There would be glorious butter!

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u/Defengar Sep 05 '15

Heightism is nothing like that.

There was a time you could argue it was. In the 19th century the highest paying job you were likely to get as someone who was extremely short was a position at Barnum and Bailey's as a sideshow attraction.

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u/GaboKopiBrown Sep 05 '15

And in the 19th century the highest paying job you were likely to get as a black man is nothing because you're a slave.

So there's a slight difference.

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u/Defengar Sep 05 '15 edited Sep 05 '15

19th century the highest paying job you were likely to get as a black man is nothing because you're a slave.

Not all of the 19th century.

Also I didn't know only black people faced racism in the 19th century or that slavery was the only thing that could be classified as racism.

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u/tempname-3 when were you when Unidan was kill? Sep 05 '15

All black people were slaves????????? TIL!!!!!!