Who is more persecuted than thou?
Why can’t we just stop all persecution and not make demographic groups “earn” the equality that we are supposed to all have by law?
Being a lesbian, I cannot travel to most places in the world that I would have liked to have seen. Just being a lesbian is a death sentence.
Being a westerner, there are places I might have liked to go, but I am afraid to because they play whos in charge this week in revolving revolver governments.
In Canada, I stopped on the street to talk to a woman who was protesting her job loss because of workplace bullying.
After I explained to her what her legal recourses where (I am not a lawyer); she asked me how I knew so much,
I said “I am being bullied at work.”
Her jaw dropped and she gasped “I didn’t know white people could be bullied.”
I was bullied by an inter-faith multiculture group and the so called corrective process.
I am currently falling through the cracks in the system.
in any event. I would like to explain some real world office realities.
How comfortable would you be to go to an office where everyone knows you were molested and beaten as a child?
That is a reality for almost all indigenous people from the decades of residential schools being operated by the three major Christian churches on behalf of the government.
To have people complain that you are rude because you do not make eye contact.
Because they are unaware that downcast eyes was required and eye contact at the residential schools was deemed disrespectful.
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