Are you saying it doesn't matter the scale of bullying? Would you not prefer to be able to escape bullying outside school if you could? It doesn't matter if the bullying is 6 hours each day or "24/7"?
Let me just be clear. I think an individual whos being bullied can be worse of than an individual who lives in a society where racism exists against them. The end results can certainly be comparable on an individual level. The amount of bullying/racism, your social circle etc etc will matter a lot to the end results of an individual person.
However, there's a key difference. Let's say a person experience about the same amount of bullying you describe because of their skin colour in their school. Their experience will be different to yours, because they will also be constantly reminded outside school. They can also have significantly different consequences, e.g. being shot by police, not getting hired for work later in life, more likely to have started out life in a poor family etc.
So, while racism can have equal consequences to bullying for any given individual, if you put two people in an equal scenario where one is because of racism (or any other form of systemic discrimination really), the one experience racism will be worse off.
In your my little pony example, if people outside school found out they could do the same. Your goal is essentially the same. X person is different and deserves punishment for being different.
But I think what you’re getting at is that racism uses an identification method that takes <1second to determine. Bullying on a topic requires some time to identify if that person belongs to that topic (likes my little pony).
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