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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.
Michael Largey 3 weeks ago
However, there is no political movement in America giving black people open permission to be racists - and abusing those who aren't.
Trillian 3 weeks ago
Racism is never good or allowed. But the argument is usually brought up in an attempt to qualify systemic racism. Kind of like "but women can be rapists too". While true, it is not the same.
Becky Samuel 3 weeks ago
Would you care to tell my friend to his face that the rape he endured at the hands of a woman "isn't the same"?
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Bill 3 weeks ago (edited)
Doesn't matter to me what ethnicity you are. It's the attitude. Be cool with me and Im cool with you. Life is too short and I don't have time to hate. Besides, all hate does is build up in you, festering. Not the person you are apparently obsessed with.
Timothy Patel 3 weeks ago
Black people calling each other the N word. Give me a break! They are the last people that should be using this word. There is a highly competent black anesthesiologist and I cannot imagine any black person feeling entitled to use that word with her.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
As I mention elsewhere: language which is acceptable between friends is not necessarily the same as the language you'd accept from strangers. There's not enough space here to write a dissertation on the history of racism and racist language in the US, but really, this point isn't hard to understand.
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Jayjay 3 weeks ago
The BLM movement calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and to eliminate all Jews from the world. Also, when this movement just started we had several incidents of white boys being harrassed in the streets by groups of black boys to say sorry, that was scary, but fortunately, that just died away. However, in the UK, white children are being discriminated against because they are "white privileged". Does the colour matters if a child has poor parents and goes to school without food? Shouldn't you feed any child that needs it? You cannot make a wrong of the past right with a new wrong.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
@Jayjay, why are you spreading this vile hate-mongering racist conspiracy theory rubbish? The Black Lives Matters movement calls for Black lives to be treated with as much worth as those of non-black people and that's it. Israel has nothing to do with it. As for white boys being harassed like you say - really? Who, where, when? It never happened! Nor are white kids being discriminated against because they're "white", privileged or otherwise. This sort of stuff is just racist lies put about by Tommy Robinson, the Daily Mail, Nigel Farage, and the rest of the lying, racist hate-mongers out there. Your post has one small grain of truth: yes, poor white kids are discriminated against, but because they are poor. The Black footballer Marcus Rashford has done a lot to help all poor children in the UK needing food - he's anti-racist, you see.
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Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Almost everybody is racist. It's part of the human condition. We can't help it. What matters is how you deal with the fact. It turns out that people who accept that everyone including themselves are racist and then try to be anti-racist actually do pretty well at treating most people fairly.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Where I come from no-one is "allowed" to be racist - at least, we have laws against any and all forms of racial discrimination and harassment and so on. Admittedly, some older black people have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to some racial attitudes. But, for example, while Diane Abbott MP has put her foot in in several times, it's worth bearing in mind she's been on the receiving end of vile racism every day she's worked as an MP, including racism from the leadership of the Labour Party in her early years in Parliament - and the nasty racist, misogynist abuse she gets *every day* has only got worse in recent years. Her staff apparently sometimes break down in tears when handling it.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
Okay, so what have I done now? Don't tell me someone's upset that I'm trying to give Diane Abbott a break? 🙄
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 3 weeks ago
With Trump at the helm, white people will be allowed to be racist as f**k.
Ionescu Popa 3 weeks ago
as most moral issues, racism accusations make sense to favor the vulnerable.
Jaaawn 3 weeks ago
Same can be said of every other race. And when a black person is racist it shouldn't be called 'reverse racism' as it's just racism period.
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Ben Aziza 3 weeks ago (edited)
Brace yourself for the joke ahead! It is not for everyone! Ohh boy the s**t you hear in Africa and Asia.. about ppl that are legit next door for 244634 years xd What takes the cake for me are the self flaggelating whites hating others and throwing coloniser and slaver slurs at 18 year olds... Meanwhile...there is me being arab sitting in the corner thinking... THAT IS MY ANCESTORS TITLE! We mastered slavery! We were number 1. Then the stupid religions came and ruined the fun with "dull slavery!" I blame white jesus for that. Srsly now jokes aside step the f away from any self hating, self racist, self sexist person. Especially when they group up. They are sad and pathetic but equally pretentious ,condescending and from money... always from money. Wake them up if you or again step the away.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago
@Ben Aziza, you genuinely sound mad. Especially "what takes the cake for me are the self flaggelating whites hating others and throwing coloniser and slaver slurs at 18 year olds" - that literally never happened. Meanwhile, groups of white lads do murder black boys here in the UK and in the US - but apparently, you don't feel the need to comment on that issue.
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Roland Nijveld 3 weeks ago
Like calling your friends the n word but if a white person says it, it's offensive. I get it's offensive but I don't get they calling each other that isn't offensive apparently.
Forrest Hobbs 3 weeks ago (edited)
Language which is acceptable between friends is not necessarily the same as the language you'd accept from strangers. There's not enough space here to write a dissertation on the history of racism and racist language in the US, but really, this point isn't hard to understand.
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Lauren Wilder 3 weeks ago
Racism is different from racial prejudice, hatred, or discrimination. Racism involves one group having the power to carry out systematic discrimination through the institutional policies and practices of the society and by shaping the cultural beliefs and values that support those racist policies and practices. Historically yt people have held this power and continue to do so. Racist is one who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inactions or expressing a racist idea. Instead of pointing fingers at who did what to you and the color of their skin. The question should be how can one express racial identity without being racist? This needs to be more than a post.
#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. .
#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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