To sum it up, people who are perceived as less conventionally attractive are less likely to be hired, more likely to receive harsher sentences in criminal cases, and seen as less likeable people among other things. I thought the reason this doesn't get much mainstream attention is because people didn't know about it, but apparently not only does everyone know, no one cares.

It is very commonly accepted by sociologists that race is an entirely pseudobiological social construct meant to divide and classify people based on what part of the world they look like they're from based on genetic traits. This should not be confused with ethnicity, which refers to the cultural aspect of national origin.

We also know that there are genetic traits that influence attractiveness (the degree of which is not relevant right now so if you want to discuss that please do so elsewhere) such as height and skull shape.

So given all that, why is a black man complaining about discrimination in the workplace greeted with righteous indignation while a short man doing the same is told to "play the hand they were dealt"? Height and skin color are both just expressions of which genes you were born with. They don't make you any better or worse as a person. Yet for some reason we've built this convoluted system of rules that decides which genes you're allowed to judge people on. That's fucked up. If reading this doesn't make you absolutely furious, I want to know why.