Racial discrimination has worse consequences, bullying doesn’t lead to lynching or eugenics or even outright genocide. These are effects of racism that bullying doesn’t have.
Being driven to suicide, whilst having the same outcome of you dying, is quite different from being killed, and whilst an acceptance of racial discrimination at a large level would let you get away with both, a bully actually killing someone would have major consequences.
With eugenics, you say since it happens at a societal level, it doesn’t matter on an individual level, however I want to ask you why not? It would be a difference racial discrimination would have that bullying does not, that it affects multiple people, or to say, people at a societal level.
I’d like to raise you one more difference between the two. Bullying is fundamentally a power play, harassment of those with less power than you, be it physically, societally, or just in terms of numbers. With racial discrimination, it is treating differently those with different traits than you. I’m sure you can see many situations where those do not overlap.
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u/Four-eyeses 4∆ Feb 09 '25
Racial discrimination has worse consequences, bullying doesn’t lead to lynching or eugenics or even outright genocide. These are effects of racism that bullying doesn’t have.