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No one ever says “we aren’t hiring you because you are trans.” But vague allusions to background checks are the usual.
but if that's the usual for non-trans too, do you think maybe the wrong excuses are being targeted? I really think the whole job structure itself needs a rework personally. The job hunt grind is debilitating emotionally tho--I fully understand the frustration/outrage it induces consistently
The state superintendent found out that a principal at a local school was a drag queen on the weekends (a well kept secret, no one in the community even knew.)
He demanded that the principal be fired, and showed up to that school EVERY DAY for weeks until the man was fired.
When you hear hoof prints, it’s reasonable to think horses.
It's exceptionally reasonable, but if you look up to see zebras you're going to feel a bit silly, right? I don't really know what you're getting at, but only because I'm not seeing where specifically you engaged with anything I said
A couple of years ago, I literally had a job hire me, put me through a week of paid training, and then when my background check came through, they immediately fired me and tried to not pay me - claiming that they had never hired me in the first place.
The only thing that would show up on that background check is the fact that I am trans.
I had another job, in college, doing shit work. Day labor. One day, the boss took a look at my drivers license and asked me about the F. No more work after that, had to fucking sell my body.
Yeah, no one says “we are not hiring you because you are trans.” But it happens. And when it happens enough, it becomes absolutely bloody obvious that it is going on. Just like when I watched my boss at a fucking fast food restaurant toss a black guys application in the trash, because “the last one of those didn’t work out” - do you think he said to that guy “yeah I don’t hire black guys lol.”
They don’t even have to lie about it anymore, the Supreme Court ruled that we aren’t protected anyway.
The worst part about experiencing systemic discrimination is that no one believes it happens unless you get a piece of paper saying “yeah we don’t hire removeds lol”
I 100% believe you about your hardships--I don't deny the truth of any of your very real and serious struggles. I've only encountered a single trans person irl, and it was a pretty bad experience for me because I was their assigned supervisor that ended up being the one having to deal with a lot of hormonal mood-swings during and after the transition wreaking havoc on team morale. I could let this one bad experience permanently tilt my outlook in much the same way you have with your unfortunate job/boss experiences. It would be emotionally easy and arguably reasonable to do so, but I refuse because I believe staying open-minded is critically important to growth and development.
I never said I didn't believe you, I just believe that evil exists only in the eyes that see evil everywhere.
This honestly has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read. You cannot seriously believe this, right?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/288872
It's a sloppy rework of a Hegel quote--you have my most favorite lemmy comment prole
I really love the beauty of a prole calling a hegel quote the dumbest thing ever in any context.
But if you wanted a serious answer, yes--doesn't any modern worthwhile philosopher have to engage with Hegel's thought in some dimension?
I'm aware you didn't come up with it, but I could not care less that Hegel said it. It's fucking stupid.
I guess that means I disregard everything Hegel ever said?
I think it means lumpenprole would be a better name lol
You have impressed me yet again tho--if you ever seriously engage with Marx's inspirations, please return with how your views changed on this very core Hegel quote. Until then, I hope you find peace:D
Because I said that the idea that "evil only exists in the eyes of those who see evil everywhere" is stupid?
Maybe you should learn to think for yourself.
Were the Jews in the Holocaust people who saw evil everywhere?
Were slaves from Africa people who saw evil everywhere?
It's fucking victim blaming. Plain and simple.