Unpopular Opinion
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don't overthink it...
discrimination whether that's about race, gender...etc
for example, if a man is being sexist towards a woman, people say it's sexism, if a women is being sexist towards a man people say it's reverse sexism...
which is dumb, can't they just call it what it is ? sexism.. why do we have to make it something unique... But like others answered, words can have many meanings.. It's the addition of unecessary words that makes it weird to me
I don't know anyone who says "reverse racism" or "reverse sexism" that isn't a douchebag and/or a bigot.
Oh, gotcha.
Yeh, call it out when appropriate.
I guess it's good that those people are recognising some discrimination. Just need to guide them towards calling it discrimination instead of a qualified discrimination (or positive discrimination).