Making a hierarchy is pointless, each oppression is different. You’d think that racism has become widely unacceptable until you realise everyone has a deeply racist worldview, they just know phrenology is bullshit. You might think LGBT rights are less of an issue except transphobia is on the rise and homosexuality was only integrated as a sub-culture of heterosexuality. You might say women have rights now but the patriarchal offensive is more and more organised and SV is an hydra with millions of heads.
Most of the population seem to think the R slur is acceptable and that children should be the property of their parents, so yeah I’d say so.
yeah probably. the fact that the “R word” is still a battle ground is pretty telling.
It’s weird… a decade ago it was considered cringe to say around my school, now those same people (that I kept contact with) drop it like it’s a regular word. No idea what happened, they’re all libs, too.
I’d say it’s probably speciesism that’s the least challenged, with ageism coming second after that, and ableism maybe third. Bigotry against human beings pretty much necessarily means seeing the targeted group as less human, and this dehumanization in turn basically requires the literally nonhuman to be seen as lesser. So the path to seeing any creature that can look you in the eyes and express its pain, as a “thing” to be possessed and controlled and exploited, begins on a child’s plate, is what I like to say.
Probably not. They’re challenged way less than they should be, yeah, but I think there may be other things we’ve yet to realize are unchallenged bigotries. Things that are innocuous now but obvious 100 years from now. Progress never stops, we’re going to be seen as conservative bigots by the standards of the next century* and that’s a good thing.
*provided humanity survives.
No. Speciesism
