Why can’t gingerism be compared to racism? Is there some quota of suffering that must be reached in human history first? Because I’d say that quota was reached long before Americans were importing African slaves. In Northern Europe a few hundred years people were burned alive simply for having red hair incase they were a witch, I think they would have jumped at the chance of slavery given the choice of that or such a horrible death. In Ancient Egypt it was the same deal.

I live in Switzerland and even today that association between red hair and witchcraft is present.

It feels to me that human beings have an innate fear of difference or anything not belonging to their “tribe”. Society tells us we aren’t allowed to publicly show this fear, so it gets pent up in the less well evolved people. So they need something like gingerism as a release, and society generally allows it.