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throwaway684936 | 3 years ago

How does that work when the demographic is extremely economically disadvantaged and has no way to earn starting capital?

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rayiner|3 years ago

You mean like Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s? Or for that matter Italians or Irish or Eastern European immigrants?

throwaway684936|3 years ago

Racial/cultural/nationality discrimination isn't identical to LGBT discrimination.

tomp|3 years ago

Why would that be the case? AFAIK it's equally probable for a woman/gay/trans person to be born in a wealthy family or a poor family.

throwaway684936|3 years ago

Are you actually serious?

We are obviously not talking about being born into wealth. Middle-class people still need to accumulate capital first, generally by working, something that's not always possible (for an extreme example, take e.g. ~90% unemployment rate for autistic college grads).

Even if we were talking about wealthy families, that doesn't count out being disowned, etc. for being gay or transgender.

In any case, check out these links: https://theconversation.com/transgender-americans-are-more-l...

https://nwlc.org/income-security-is-elusive-for-many-transge...

https://www.lgbtmap.org/unfair-price-transgender

burnished|3 years ago

The US has a recent history of racial discrimination that prevented a lot of people from building wealth in their communities or generational wealth. Not that there aren't a shit ton of white people living in trailer parks, but no one was denying them home loans because of the color of their skin.

So, if owning your own home is a big part of your wealth over a life time, and your parents and their parents were discriminated against and prevented from accessing those mechanisms, it makes it much less likely that you will today be born in a wealthy or a poor family.

Look up redlining on wikipedia if you want specifics.

giraffe_lady|3 years ago

this is mathematically similar too, and about as sensible as, statements like "it either kills me or it doesn't, so that's a 50% chance"

bcj7393nsk|3 years ago

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spankalee|3 years ago

What a horrible place you immediately jumped to. Historically and systemically disadvantaged does not mean or imply intrinsically disadvantaged. Jesus.