Pixels wrote:Chamomile wrote:Prak wrote:And yet it's perfectly legal to, say, pay one category of people less than another for the same work,
No, actually, it isn't. If you can prove that you're being paid less for no other reason than that you are a woman, you can sue for that. Trouble is, how are you supposed to prove that? Also: Sexism, not racism.
Yes, actually, it is, with a few exceptions. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment ... ted_States. Your example of discrimination based on sex is a protected category, but paying people who have annoying laughs less would be perfectly fine.
Okay, so technically you're correct, but Prak is clearly referring here to women, who are a protected class.
Prak wrote:Also, I was talking about the use of [x]ism to mean "Institutionalized [X]ism," in general, not specifically racism.
I'm specifically using racism to point out that by the Tumblr definition there is no racism in America, a clearly ridiculous assertion which therefore invalidates the Tumblr definition.
If you want, and give me a bit, I can come up with other cases where Castle Doctrine type laws only protect white men.
I don't need you to come up with cases where the Castle Doctrine
effectively only protects white people, Prak. I need you come up with cases where the Castle Doctrine
explicitly only protects white people. If there is no actual law or legal precedent, meaning the actual explicit word of a judge on a case and not just what we can infer about why he ruled the way he did, then there is no racism in United States law itself. There is only racism in the people who
enforce United States law, and who ignore the law in subtle or in some cases blatant ways to serve their repugnant ideologies. But that still has nothing to do with what is actually the law, because the law is what's
written, not what's
done. Except the Tumblr definition of racism says that it doesn't count as racism unless it is a system of oppression
in law and attitude which means that only explicit legal oppression of certain races qualifies as racism. And that is stupid.