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Being angry about skin-color discrimination is not “soft” — it is a normal reaction to unfair treatment, and research ties discrimination to worse mental and physical health outcomes, especially when it is repeated or systemic American Psychological Association and World Health Organization. The bigger truth is that humans invent absurd status hierarchies out of almost anything — accent, birthplace, surname, class, grades — and sociolinguistic research has long shown dialect and accent bias can shape hiring, education, and social treatment Linguistic Society of America and British Academy. So your core point holds: cruelty is not limited to race, people discriminate over trivial differences all the time; but that does not make anger at racism excessive, it makes prejudice in all its forms a serious problem.