SuperDemocrat
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- Mar 4, 2015
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I know what it is like to be a victim of discrimination even though I am not black or Hispanic. I've been having a hard time trying to convince my employer that I can actually do something more than grunt work at my job and I have definitely tried! I now realize that I never made a good first impression at my job so that stuck with me for quite a while. I suspect that because I ride a motorcycle to work that they think I am in a motorcycle gang. In other words, I have a negative stereotype applied against my character which colors all of my attempts to impress them. This is kind of like how when a manager may think blacks are inferior to all other workers because no matter what he does he can not manage to move up in the job. The manager will always think he is inferior to all non-black applicants.
My own thoughts is that the free enterprise system has always been an escape from this because if you are facing widespread discrimination against yourself because you belong to a certain race you can aLways find economic success outside of employment. You can always choose to be self-employed. There you are free of racial discrimination and you fail you fail because of yourself which in itself is incredibly freeing. You never have to change yourself to fit in with the company's preferred archetype. You don't have to pretend to white to fit in with your white bosses.
This all depends on whether or not you can handle being in business for yourself. I just kind of think the free enterprise system may provide opportunities for a lot of minorities that are denied to them on the employment side of the economy.
I can also say the same for women, Hispanics, ugly people, short people, etc, etc....wherever there is unfair discrimination the capitalist system may provide an escape from it.
My own thoughts is that the free enterprise system has always been an escape from this because if you are facing widespread discrimination against yourself because you belong to a certain race you can aLways find economic success outside of employment. You can always choose to be self-employed. There you are free of racial discrimination and you fail you fail because of yourself which in itself is incredibly freeing. You never have to change yourself to fit in with the company's preferred archetype. You don't have to pretend to white to fit in with your white bosses.
This all depends on whether or not you can handle being in business for yourself. I just kind of think the free enterprise system may provide opportunities for a lot of minorities that are denied to them on the employment side of the economy.
I can also say the same for women, Hispanics, ugly people, short people, etc, etc....wherever there is unfair discrimination the capitalist system may provide an escape from it.