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Wed7pm  ·  4835 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ugly? You may have a case
I won't try that video, I'm on a dial-up, but exactly: discrimination or prejudice against short people is probably a similar thing.

I couldn't decide whether to support that article's ideas or not. Even admitting that I might discriminate (or be discriminated against) because of "ugliness", and the idea that it's an objective category that could be set in law... it's weird. But then, if we humans actually are biased in this way, and these attitudes do have a measurable effect in the world, then maybe a legal category would bring the problem out into the open and we'd have to at least acknowledge we're doing it.