Yeah I'm gonna get into a heated topic and regret it:

I don't like the ranking of minorities by oppression. I understand the need to awknowledge racism and that certain groups are oppressed but I'm sick of seeing America centric ranking systems with people saying things like Asians aren't oppressed and that straight black men are the white men of the black community.

Just a few months ago people were calling Asians privileged and saying they benefited from being model minorities. A school even got in trouble for telling Asian students to check their privilege during a pandemic that's seen a huge rise in violence against them. With current events it's in the media and all my friends are backtracking hard like they didn't really say that stuff not too long ago. I don't think they actually cared about the groups at all if I'm being honest and it's really gross and reeks of racism and virtue signaling.

I even saw a tiered list on Twitter the other day being reposted which broke down minority groups based on race and nationality to show how oppressed they are in relation to each other, it's just getting offensive. It doesn't even apply outside of America considering some of those groups ranked "least oppressed" are pretty damn oppressed in my country(Arab people for instance) and the most oppressed was off too because it's an entirely different political climate(Irish people don't generally face systematic oppression here compared with groups like indigenous peoples).

These kinds of things completely gloss over interpersonal racism which is an issue because minorities can be racist too. Are we supposed to break out the chart when say, a Black person calls an Asian person a slur? Do we take into account their sexuality, economic status, and gender expression in this or not? Can't we just say hey, "non-white people and those from minority groups face institutional racism in Western countries which needs to be addressed and interpersonal racism is never okay" and then deal with it from there instead of pitting groups against each other and denying the existence of racism between minority groups entirely. It's not helping to force a disadvantaged individual to check their privilege everytime they speak about the challenges they face in a racist society.