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.
如果一个既不了解你、对你的成长经历也一无所知的人告诉你，由于你的某个不可改变的身体特征，你平时必然受尽压迫，你听到这话时会有什么感受？