-ism, like racism, are societal oppressions based on inequality and ingrained into our day to day. In racism’s case it is because of not being white or white passing or close enough that people will just call you white anyway.



I think you’re thinking of systematic oppression, where the government is actively involved in oppressing races other than their own

Racism, in general, is the discrimination of someone because of their race. This can happen to anyone.

For societal oppression to happen you have to have a lack of rights, an inequality, be it a legal inequality or one that exists in popular opinions. For example, how same-sex marriages are mostly illegal. Or how WoC are paid less than white men, and white women, and menoC. Another good example is that trans* people are often killed by significant others when they come out, or that it is legal to be fired for being trans*.



We have gotten over most inequalities. Mostly racial. LGBT people are gaining rights very quickly. It is not legal to be fired for being trans, that is discrimination. People do it, that doesnt make it legal, it means the people who do it are committing crimes. The wage gap thing, not to informed on that but paying someone less because of race is illegal, I do know that.

Here are some things that would make hetrophobia a thing.

If straight people as a whole had to pretend they weren’t straight at their job so no one would harass them at work.



Or if people automatically assumed others were gay, because that was the norm, and correcting that risked being beaten or killed.



But that doesn’t happen, because there isn’t societal oppression of hetros. Just like there isn’t for cis or white people, or men.



Those would be heterosexual discrimination, yes. But if you “hate all hetero people because theyre straight”, that’s discrimination. If I were black and “hated all whites”, that’s still racist. It doesn’t matter if I”m the only black or if that race had dominant power. I do understand what you’re saying, but what youre describing is systematic discrimination.

You’re right DISCRIMINATION isn’t about power, people can discriminate against someone for being a man, but it is not misandry.



Discrimination based on sex or gender is sexism

If you go to a bar and they kick you out for being white and it isn’t a PoC safe-space then yes, that would be discrimination, but it isn’t racism, because everyone is going to be on your side if that happens and no one is going to call you slurs for being kicked out.



It doesnt matter if it’s a “poc safe place”. If youre kicked out for being white, it’s racism. The hard part would be trying to prove that because of society. If the bar owner is some mexican dude that openly trash talks white people, you might be able to prove it.

discrimination based on race is racism

based on sex or gender is sexism

based on orientation is homo/hetero phobia/sexism

based on identity is transsexism/phobia