[Ninastar]

Yes I know it sounds crazy because straight people have never faced 'oppression', but is it not just as bad to make fun of someone for being who they are, no matter what their 'kind' has faced in the bad?

I get the feeling that a lot of people believe that it's worse to discriminate against someone who is part of some sort of minority, rather than it being awful to discriminate at all.

I've seen so many comments (mainly on tumblr and here) saying things like 'LOL straight people', but if you changed it to something like 'LOL black people' or 'LOL Trannies', people would have an absolute fit.

Is it just me who thinks that there is a complete double standard when it comes to poking fun at people?

What I don't understand is when people praise equality, but then laugh at other people for being who they are, or they say that a person from X background isn't as important as another, because they haven't faced the same challenges...

IMO, we are all as awful/brilliant as each other. To tell someone they can't have an opinion on something because they are 'straight' or anything else that hasn't faced as much 'oppression' is just wrong and completely hypocritical. It's almost like saying they aren't worth an opinion.