What do you think about heightism being worse than racism

I think for the argument to work as it being "worse", it would have to minimize the modern version of racism completely, which isn't how reality is.

Racism wasn't systematic, it is systematic. It wasn't more common back then, it's still common. To say murder based off of racism "rarely happens" isn't really true, it's just not to the degree it used to be. But it doesn't mean it rarely happens, it means it's less likely to happen than it used to be.

Heightism rarely dictates a person's fundamental civil liberties, and racism is still institutional in many countries.

This concept confuses overt racism with covert racism, and confuses social media vitality with real life accountability. Millions of people experience racism daily, across the world, with no change, no help, no social standing, because it's not being recorded and shared on social media.

Just because people say something online, that doesn't mean if someone saw it in real life they'd say something, because in most cases people will remain silent. Anyone who's spent time in the work place will know this because even if you're against racism, there's going to be moments where you stay silent because you don't want to get involved. It's unfortunately very common.

Unfortunately, body shaming in general is just common. Fat people are shamed all the time for being fat. Skinny people are shamed all the time for being too thin. Women are shamed for having too much hair and men are shamed for having too little hair. If you have any slight deformatiy, you will be made aware of it for the rest of your life because of people commenting on it.

If someone said to a balding man he looked unprofessional because of his thinning hair, I promise you your coworkers would go "Hold on that's rude" vs when someone says someone's hair braids needs to be removed because it's unprofessional for the work place, you're not going to hear anything really.

With that being said, you can talk about heightism and how it effects millions of people (especially men) without comparing it to another social issue. They're just so completely different issues that it's almost comical to compare the two.

But heightism is an actual issue and will unfortunately probably get worse as time goes on. and because it's so socially acceptable, it's hard to do anything against it without being laughed at.