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40 Of The Biggest Double Standards In Society, According To People Online
Life isn’t always fair, no matter how much we wish it could be. Sure, there are times when justice prevails and good triumphs, but far too often, the scales seem hopelessly tipped.
It’s the kind of realization that can really make your blood boil. And it certainly did for these Redditors, who didn’t hold back as they shared some of society’s biggest double standards in a recent thread.
Scroll down to read their thoughts, and don’t forget to share your own in the comments!
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#1
Churches being involved in politics but not having to pay taxes. Tax the fuckn church.
Lyone Fein 3 weeks ago
I would rather we just actually enforce the separation of church and state. Religious institutions should not be involved in politics. And the government should not pass laws that are particular to one religious view point (like making abortion illegal).
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#2
The huge focus on Joe Biden's apparent mental decline... versus... nobody batting an eyelid about Donald Trump's obvious mental decline.
#3
If poor people don’t pay taxes they are criminals , if rich people don’t pay taxes they are “business savvy”.
#4
I need to submit to a background check and d**g test for most jobs.
The president is a convicted felon. Elon does d***s.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 weeks ago
When you are mega wealthy in USA, there is no such thing as accountability in doing whatever you wish.
#5
When Santa comes down the chimney and eats your food he’s “Holly” and “jolly” but I do it and I’m “drunk” and “breaking and entering”.
#6
It's 'mental health matters' until you show symptoms that aren't glamorous, romantic or desirable.
Leonie Löwenherz 3 weeks ago
What kind of mental health symptoms are glamourous or romantic? Please elaborate.
#7
America calling itself the “land of the free” while simultaneously incarcerating more people than any other nation.
For All Pedernity 3 weeks ago
The level of self deception Americans are capable of is incredible. 'Land of the free', 'the world's greatest democracy', 'the American dream'...
#8
That a man with five kids from three different woman, all of whom he openly cheated on, and be elected president. A woman wouldn’t even be considered for mayor with that track record.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 weeks ago
AND adored by so called 'Christians' who would vilify a Democrat candidate
#9
Black people are allowed to be racist as f**k.
George Costanza 3 weeks ago
Every person can be racist, regardless of their race. My Asian FIL is definitely racist against blacks. We have to chastise him all the time. Anyone can be racist.
#10
How men are praised for doing basic stuff like cooking or taking care of kids, while women are expected to do it all and still get judged for ,,not doing enough''
Not trying to offend anyone just my personal opinion:).
#12
Government can't account for 800 billion dollars in an audit, but if I so much as make an honest mistake on my taxes I receive harsh penalties.
Robert Beveridge 3 weeks ago
Oh, it CAN account for that money. It doesn't because "national security". Paranoid b******t.
#13
Rich people receiving praise for getting government money whilst looking down on poor people needing government help.
#14
Normal person files for bankruptcy to give themselves a fresh start and they’re being shamed for it.
Rich person files for bankruptcy 8 different times and no one blinks an eye.
#15
Vilifying an entire race and gender. You can be racist to white people, especially white men. But it cannot be the opposite.
CNN can release a news article called “There’s Nothing Scarier Than Angry White Men”. If you replaced “white men” with “black people”, there would be public outrage and much consequence.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/20/us/angry-white-men-trials-blake-cec
Black people can openly say “I don’t like white people” and it’s acceptable. A white person cannot say that about their own race without termination from their job, being deplatformed and deemed a racist. I think both of these attitudes towards one another are disgusting. I don’t feel that way about a race. It’s bothersome that someone would judge me just because of my skin color too.
Progress on race issues begins when everyone has the same social behaviors and mutual respect. Not when one gets a special license to be hateful and the other is supposed to put up with it. Most things deemed “racist” are not about race anyway, it’s tribalism. A very natural thing for all of us.
People with cultural similarities will always predominately flock together. Race is the first and most obvious commonality that make make a group of people flock together. In a diverse room, Christian’s will naturally flock together, blacks will flock together, gays will flock together and so on.
Everyone, without exception or even admission, is most comfortable with people that are most like them from physical appearance to politics, interests, and beliefs. There’s countless studies on it. Instead of understanding and respecting the human condition, we normalize blaming and vilifying white people because they are the majority in the proverbial room. .
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
The basic premise of this point is utter nonsense. It's just not true that "You can be racist to white people, especially white men.." Nor is it the case that "Black people can openly say “I don’t like white people” and it’s acceptable". It's also false that "we normalize blaming and vilifying white people because they are the majority in the proverbial room" This is nothing but fantastical far-right culture-war conspiracy-mongering invented by some sick-minded troublemaker. By the way, I'm a white man. I've never had anyone be racist to me because I'm white.
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Rico Suave 3 weeks ago
Wow, one of the most reasoned, intelligent, balanced comments I have read in a while!
RajunCajun 3 weeks ago
Just a thought, could we get rid of racism as a word and just get pissed at people being mean / rude / disrespectful at other people.
Stephanie Barr 3 weeks ago
When you are the demographic in power (not just white but largely white men) in America for instance and everyone else is treated differently as a result, you have to live with the consequences. Pretending people resenting mistreatment are the same as those mistreating them in the first place is first-class hypocrisy right up there with the "war on Christianity."
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
Correct. "Those who are accustomed to privilege often believe that equality is oppression." - Howard Brenneman
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 3 weeks ago
I think it's less than white people being the majority and more about the history of systemic racism that continues to negatively effect people of color. - a white person.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
It's both. If a group is 90% or so of the population, it's going to produce a large majority of the scary people.
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Jill Rhodry 3 weeks ago
I tend to agree there's nothing scarier than an angry white man - because he can get away with it - no other race can.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
So how come prisons in the UK are full of white men? Even those who commit racist murders at least *sometimes* get locked up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence. Meanwhile, have you any idea how few violent crimes committed in South Africa are actually prosecuted? Plenty of the villains are white, but most are black, since South Africa is majority black.
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Lyoness 3 weeks ago
So...how are the Christians identifying each other as they "naturally flock together"? Does everyone wear a cross? And if you're a lesbian, does everyone make sure the carabineer holding their keys is prominent? Of course I'm being facetious, and I take your points and agree with some of them but would argue that in a diverse room you aren't going to only see groups of white people or black people or gay people. There will be mixes because people identify themselves by more than just the colour of their skin, who they voted for and who they sleep with.
Dawn Marie 3 weeks ago
I feel that one, if not THE one, worst word in the English language is the "N" word when referring to African-American's. If a white person says that word, it is extremely raciest. But I hear it all the time from African-American's mouths and their music. I am so offended by this I want to scream: "Don't you have ANY respect for yourself?" I just don't understand how this acceptable. Can someone please explain this to me?
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Look at it like this: there's this horrible word used to insult, demean, belittle you and everyone like you, a word used to excuse all manner of awfulness up to and including murder. You'd like a world where that word didn't have that power. So, you and your group - the ones attacked by the word - end up using that word in an attempt to rob it of its power. Of course "they" have self-respect. It's kind of the point. (By the way, I consider myself one of "them". Despite being a white man, I'm also a human being - how are we different under the skin? Only, you won't find me using the "n" word because - umm - I hope that I get it?)
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Kelly Kiang 3 weeks ago
Well I'm white and I get along better with people of color/gay/trans people, etc. I've taken about as much c**p from white people as I'm going to.
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It's not right, but other groups are most definitely having more issues with systemic racism then white people. Just because people that are similar generally stick together doesn't mean that they'll always vilify others.
Max Fox 3 weeks ago
Ahhh the justifications for racism never end. Every one of the points is part of White Supremacist rhetoric. All that's missing is "White Christian men suffer more discrimination than anybody else". For example "Progress on race issues begins when everyone has the same social behaviors". Translation: "when everybody talks and dresses like ME, a White Man, everything will be OK". And "we normalize blaming and vilifying white people because they are the majority in the proverbial room". No, it's because the large majority of White people keep on supporting racists and racial discrimination.
Ben Aziza 3 weeks ago (edited)
Yeh insane to me that you guys in the usa have that to such extent. A combo of racism and self hate... cus many NOT all but many ppl who normalised that are self hating white savior types ... Having to deal with a person like that... and if you are smart to thier psudo intellectual bs... You see a more scary form of racism you have never seen before... . I had to deal with only one person like that so far in the eu... it like he dis not see a person he saw brown and disabled... Lost his s**t when I did not fit his image of weak feeble muslim grateful of how sorry he was for the bad he is... He was doing a political pub... Promoting unhinged...
Son of Philosoraptor 3 weeks ago
I'm as liberal as they come but objectively white/European descent people are so racist they just elected an open racist as president. White Americans think Jesus was Caucasian. Let's be real. Africans were kidnapped in mass for chattel slavery. Their descendants have every right to be furious given how "white" people continue to act.
Deb Carnell 3 weeks ago
I am white. I'm well aware that Jesus wasn't white. I didn't vote for the white felon. This is the problem with using race to judge someone. Any race. You just proved the point they were making.
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#16
Girls wearing feminine things? Yeah. Girls wearing masculine things? Yeah. Guys wearing masculine things? Yeah. Guys wearing feminine things? You're gonna get beaten up if you enter the wrong alley.
#17
That viagra is covered by health insurance and most name brand birth controls are not (even though viagra is just for boners and birth control helps with a litany of female hormone regulation issues).
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 weeks ago
Viagra is not just "for boners" it's still used as a heart medication. Also, in most of the civilised world contraception, including the pill, is free or reduced cost.
#18
Rich people get every possible chance to avoid jail time, poor people can go f**k themselves.
#19
If you establish yourself as a "hard worker" everyone notices when you have a bad day and don't perform to your usual standard. Meanwhile "slackers" are praised for performing slightly above average.
#21
If a woman sleeps with a lot of guys, she's a s**t. I do the same thing and I'm "gay".
#23
People love to say 'don't judge others,' but are quick to judge anyone who doesn't fit their idea of normal. Hypocrisy is real!
Dawn Marie 3 weeks ago
I am 60 years old. I have tried MANY churches in my life and finally gave up. There has not been one church in all those years where I did not feel or hear judgmental attitudes toward me. I suffer from clinical depression and PTSD from childhood and an abusive marriage. I am finished with church. I can worship on my own.
#24
how men are praised for being confident or assertive, but women who do the same are often labeled as bossy or aggressive. it’s like the same behavior is judged differently just based on gender.
For All Pedernity 3 weeks ago
'It’s like the same behavior is judged differently just based on gender'. No s**t.
#25
Men’s nipples are normalized, women’s nipples are sexualized.
The Big Bad 3 weeks ago
Boobs are over sexualized, breastfeeding is "weird". Never understood that the most natural thing in the world is now often being called weird or even rude.
#26
The idea that getting money without working for it is awful and horrible if you're poor, but cool and respectable and a just reward for "success" if you're rich.
Luke Branwen 3 weeks ago
This is one of the most important things if we genuinely want the world to change for the better: be okay with people getting "free stuff" without the knee-jerk "THEY DIDN'T EARN IT!!!" reaction. And before anyone comes with the "ackchyually nothing is free, someone has to pay for it", I have three words: tax the rich.
#27
I know it's mentioned a lot, but cannabis being illegal and alcohol being legal (in most countries) is an outrageous double standard.
Luke Branwen 3 weeks ago
If you listed all negative effects of alcohol and presented it as some new "millennial" d**g (think of kratom or similar), there'd be a massive, MASSIVE uproar to get it banned, even from people who get drunk on a weekly basis.
#28
Two tiered justice system.
If you are rich, you can't commit a crime serious enough to result in a reasonable prison sentence.
#29
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" doesn't apply to cops.
#30
Employees are expected to give 2 weeks notice before leaving a job, but employers won’t give us even 2 hours notice before firing us.
#31
In the western civilizations, You can criticize Christianity but not Islam.
#32
I’m not American, but I know in the USA you can’t drink or buy tobacco until you’re 21. Yet you can join the army and be sent to foreign countries to fight, buy a gun, or vote at the age of 18.
OldButNewButBroken 3 weeks ago
Imagine joining the army at 18. Then get deployed, seeing combat, losing friends. Return home with your soul shattered. And then get a hard NO when you try to buy some booze to numb the pain. Thank you for your service indeed
#33
As long as you claim that you are a victim it’s okay to be the perpetrator.
#34
Elon musk openly smoked weed on camera and talks about taking other illegal d***s on the Joe Rogan podcast, yet he still launches rockets and has just been brought into the president elects cabinet and entrusted to run a department in the federal government but a regular citizen wouldn’t pass a security clearance/background investigation and interview to work for a government entity if they smoked weed.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 3 weeks ago
Did you see the video of Trump Jr openly rubbing coke on his gums?
#35
The rich are eccentric. The poor are dangerous and crazy.
#36
The government can fail financial audits to the tune of billions missing with no accountability or consequences. But I have to explain deposits over $600. Totally ridiculous.
BookFanatic 3 weeks ago
Yep. I moved some money around to free up a down payment on my house. Lender was ALL OVER my records demanding to know where the cash had come from.
#37
The pure joy I have when I find a curly fry at the bottom of the regular fries I ordered but the absolute disgust I have when I find a regular fry at the bottom of curly fries I ordered.
#38
In the US, justice for the rich/celebrities/politicians vs the rest of the population. A prime example that comes to mind is how Tyreek Hill was given a speeding ticket for going 90 in a 30. The he has the audacity to demand the cop be fired. A regular person in that situation would have been arrested for reckless endangerment and their car impounded.
#39
How some groups think it is fine that they can do what they like, but "others" need to be told by them to what to do. Some groups go, let's make a law governing how others behave, but woe betide anyone who tries to make laws governing how those groups behave.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
"We should ban abortions, contraceptives, and gay marriage because they are against God's will. But don't try to regulate me. You're violating my religious freedom!"
#40
The perception of a woman hitting a man vs a man hitting a woman. Generally it's less frowned upon when a woman hits a man.
The Big Bad 3 weeks ago
Nobody should hit anybody. There is often a huge difference in power though. If my husband would punch me I'd probably go k.o. If I would punch my husband he'd probably wonder what mosquito bit him :')
What do you think ?
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
Celebrities who tell everyone to reduce their carbon footprint while at the same time jetting all over the world, running numerous huge houses, driving around in gas guzzling vehicles and generally being wasteful.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 weeks ago
It's fine for men to be overweight but not women. If you sleep 9pm - 6am you're a fkn saint. Sleep 1am - 10 am and you're the laziest pig that ever lived.
Igor914624 3 weeks ago
Height discrimination. It is OK to call me short, midget, smurf, or to make jokes about my height like setting up a milk crate for me to stand on. Girls won't date me because I am not 6 foot. But if I a make a fat joke, or a joke about race, I am vilified. If I don't want to date a woman because she is overweight, then I am a monster. 84702598-6...c10df1.jpg 
Lailu 3 weeks ago
I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity… is height really such a deterrent for some women? I’ve dated people way taller, way shorter and around the same height as me and being more attracted versus less attracted because of their height never even crossed my mind. If you’ve experienced it, I’m sorry. We’re not all like that, I promise!
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Tabitha 3 weeks ago
Expect it to get worse in the next four years. At least until the revolution. If you don’t know what I mean, as the French about 1789, or the Russians about 1917. Then you’ll get the picture.
Tree P 1 week ago
History repeats itself! I've been thinking the same thing
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Beak Hookage 3 weeks ago
All my life I've had to work twice as hard for less than half the recognition, and there's no way it isn't because I'm a queer neurodivergent woman who is not conventionally attractive and has no husband or children. But god forbid I ever point this out to any of the people who haven't had to put up with that sort of bs because it immediately becomes either just all in my head, or me just being bitter and jealous. Well you know what? Sometimes being bitter and even jealous is entirely justified.
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
When somebody who is rich and famous gets their house burgled the police can't get there to investigate quick enough. When an ordinary person gets burgled they're lucky if the police answer the phone
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
Wealthy people claim everything on expenses, have tax loopholes, rack up eye watering amounts of debt and nobody questions it or raises an eyebrow, yet as soon as a poor person gets into debt or mentions that they can't afford something they are told to live within their means.
John Dilligaf 3 weeks ago
you, the paycheck to paycheck wage slave, are expected to have 6 to 8 months worth of savings just sitting there in case of an emergency. ........ But a multi-million dollar corporation will start to go under if their profits slip for a couple of quarters.
Ladedah 3 weeks ago
The fact that people try to seem charitable and act like they care about the wellbeing of unhoused people when on social media and in general discussions... but when the government actually allots a sizable amount of funds to procure housing for the unhoused, they can never seem to use it because every neighborhood they annouce plans for begins to protest the placement of housing on their side of the community.
Nimitz 3 weeks ago
Abusive family members are the biggest double standard in our society. A person who walks up to a kid in a park, grabs them by the throat, and lifts them off the ground and strangles them is going to jail for a long long time. But a father or mother doing the same might lose custody or be forced into counselling, if they're white. Someone gets drunk and starts throwing heavy s**t at a person holding a baby, then starts kicking and slashing at them with a broken bottle is going to jail, but a family member does it and the cops make them spend the night in the drunk tank, then send them home in the morning. These are things I've personally experienced. If it's a family member the judge makes them super pinky promise not to do it again and sends them off with no consequence. But if it were a stranger, they'd get years in jail. This world has no justice for abusers
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
It's quite acceptable for you to behave like an a**hole towards me but if upsets me or rubs me up the wrong way and I start treating people in the same way they're treating me, all of a sudden I'm the bad one.
Simon Chen 3 weeks ago
As usual, most of these are true for the US and completely irrelevant for civilized coutries
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
Celebrities who tell everyone to reduce their carbon footprint while at the same time jetting all over the world, running numerous huge houses, driving around in gas guzzling vehicles and generally being wasteful.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 weeks ago
It's fine for men to be overweight but not women. If you sleep 9pm - 6am you're a fkn saint. Sleep 1am - 10 am and you're the laziest pig that ever lived.
Igor914624 3 weeks ago
Height discrimination. It is OK to call me short, midget, smurf, or to make jokes about my height like setting up a milk crate for me to stand on. Girls won't date me because I am not 6 foot. But if I a make a fat joke, or a joke about race, I am vilified. If I don't want to date a woman because she is overweight, then I am a monster. 84702598-6...c10df1.jpg
Lailu 3 weeks ago
I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity… is height really such a deterrent for some women? I’ve dated people way taller, way shorter and around the same height as me and being more attracted versus less attracted because of their height never even crossed my mind. If you’ve experienced it, I’m sorry. We’re not all like that, I promise!
Load More Replies... Tabitha 3 weeks ago
Expect it to get worse in the next four years. At least until the revolution. If you don’t know what I mean, as the French about 1789, or the Russians about 1917. Then you’ll get the picture.
Tree P 1 week ago
History repeats itself! I've been thinking the same thing
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 3 weeks ago
All my life I've had to work twice as hard for less than half the recognition, and there's no way it isn't because I'm a queer neurodivergent woman who is not conventionally attractive and has no husband or children. But god forbid I ever point this out to any of the people who haven't had to put up with that sort of bs because it immediately becomes either just all in my head, or me just being bitter and jealous. Well you know what? Sometimes being bitter and even jealous is entirely justified.
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
When somebody who is rich and famous gets their house burgled the police can't get there to investigate quick enough. When an ordinary person gets burgled they're lucky if the police answer the phone
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
Wealthy people claim everything on expenses, have tax loopholes, rack up eye watering amounts of debt and nobody questions it or raises an eyebrow, yet as soon as a poor person gets into debt or mentions that they can't afford something they are told to live within their means.
John Dilligaf 3 weeks ago
you, the paycheck to paycheck wage slave, are expected to have 6 to 8 months worth of savings just sitting there in case of an emergency. ........ But a multi-million dollar corporation will start to go under if their profits slip for a couple of quarters.
Ladedah 3 weeks ago
The fact that people try to seem charitable and act like they care about the wellbeing of unhoused people when on social media and in general discussions... but when the government actually allots a sizable amount of funds to procure housing for the unhoused, they can never seem to use it because every neighborhood they annouce plans for begins to protest the placement of housing on their side of the community.
Nimitz 3 weeks ago
Abusive family members are the biggest double standard in our society. A person who walks up to a kid in a park, grabs them by the throat, and lifts them off the ground and strangles them is going to jail for a long long time. But a father or mother doing the same might lose custody or be forced into counselling, if they're white. Someone gets drunk and starts throwing heavy s**t at a person holding a baby, then starts kicking and slashing at them with a broken bottle is going to jail, but a family member does it and the cops make them spend the night in the drunk tank, then send them home in the morning. These are things I've personally experienced. If it's a family member the judge makes them super pinky promise not to do it again and sends them off with no consequence. But if it were a stranger, they'd get years in jail. This world has no justice for abusers
Liz The Biz 3 weeks ago
It's quite acceptable for you to behave like an a**hole towards me but if upsets me or rubs me up the wrong way and I start treating people in the same way they're treating me, all of a sudden I'm the bad one.
Simon Chen 3 weeks ago
As usual, most of these are true for the US and completely irrelevant for civilized coutries
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