Yeah,these things have systemic causes. As long as we live in a capitalist society, we will live in a society that has an interest in turning the workers against each other, that has an interest in maintaining racism and national chauvinism as a foundation for imperialist subjugation, that has an interest in maintaining patriarchal and by extension queerphobic structures because toxic masculinity is inextrivably linked to capitalist competetiveness and to militarism. You cannot fully excise bigottry from a capitalist society.
Such small reformist steps can still be major advancements for marginalized people, though. It is doctoring at symptoms, it is restricted to the indiviual level, and that's even before hindrances such as how hard it is to prove that somebody said something bigotted about you in person. But it does make a difference if, say, being a transphobe to your co-worker is legal or if it isn't.
Yeah, it is good to have it on the books at least, but discrimination on gender or racial basis being illegal hasn't stopped racism or sexism.
Yeah,these things have systemic causes. As long as we live in a capitalist society, we will live in a society that has an interest in turning the workers against each other, that has an interest in maintaining racism and national chauvinism as a foundation for imperialist subjugation, that has an interest in maintaining patriarchal and by extension queerphobic structures because toxic masculinity is inextrivably linked to capitalist competetiveness and to militarism. You cannot fully excise bigottry from a capitalist society.
Such small reformist steps can still be major advancements for marginalized people, though. It is doctoring at symptoms, it is restricted to the indiviual level, and that's even before hindrances such as how hard it is to prove that somebody said something bigotted about you in person. But it does make a difference if, say, being a transphobe to your co-worker is legal or if it isn't.