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Originally posted by Witch_Privilege
While gays and blacks are both marginalized communities, their struggles are vastly different. White gays, while still gay, are still white, and are therefore still more privileged than black people in America.
Then when you throw in being gay and black, you have what's called intersectionality, which is basically like a double whammy of oppression.
So it's not fair, nor right, to say being gay and being black are the same thing.
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Excuse the pun, but nothing is that black and white.
There are so many other factors that affect how people are perceived, which ultimately leads to their oppression. Race and sexuality are only two.
You take a beautiful 6'2 black male, and a butchy non-cis white lesbian, and the latter is likely to suffer more than the former, considering looks, height, and gender norms are also included in the list of factors that people use to subconsciously analyze others.
Does that mean that white gays/lesbians actually do have it worse? Of course not. The point is that there are so many factors involved that its pointless even entertaining the notion of the Oppression Olympics. Nor can anything positive come from it.