How would you feel if you were told, by someone who knew very little about you or your upbringing, that because of one of your immutable physical characteristics you must have been the victim of oppression?For Jane Bradbury — who identifies herself as “Latino”, though she doesn’t actually know her ethnicity as she was brought up by white adoptive parents — being told, by a white colleague, words to the effect that she must have been subjected to oppression simply because of the colour of her skin left her feeling “very upset” and “distressed”. An employment tribunal recently awarded the former Sky Television engineer ￡14,000 in compensation on the grounds that this assumption was “a form of stereotyping” and amounted to racial discrimination.
如果一個既不了解你、對你的成長經歷也一無所知的人告訴你，由于你的某個不可改變的身體特征，你平時必然受盡壓迫，你聽到這話時會有什么感受？