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Sure you can, it's like saying you can't be racist against white people, and having lived in a neighborhood that was 99% black I can assure you that's a thing.
People need to decouple the ideas of discrimination and institutionalized discrimination. Discrimination can happen in any direction and it's on an individual level, institutionalized discrimination can only happen from the people "in control" towards the rest, e.g. cis, hetero, white, males. Obviously institutionalized discrimination is way worse and should be fixed, however antagonizing people and claiming you can't discriminate against them will lead them to close down into "well, if I can't be discriminated against then neither can you". It's important to teach people that anyone can be discriminated, and to show how our society as a whole discriminates certain groups, this way the message becomes less of "you're an asshole for being in the same category as people who are assholes, and there's nothing I do to you that will make me an asshole" and more "it sucks when some people are assholes to you, imagine if the majority of people treated you like this"
you're silly because you're getting offended by mean words. we have to worry whether we'll make it home alive. idk, maybe unshove your own head out of your own ass?
Maybe stop and listen to what I said, unless you have lived in very specific cities it's almost assuredly I've had more risk to my life walking home in a week than you ever did in your entire life, having lived for a good chunk of my life in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
I've lived in places where you can get shot because you turned the wrong corner, places where you need to talk to people with machine guns to let you pass. Maybe you should unshove your head out of your own ass and see that other people also have problems, and alienating them is not going to make any friends. Unlike you I recognize the struggle that minorities face, I'm not looking only at myself and forgetting others exist and trying to pretend they don't suffer. If your first response when someone says "I suffer" is "your suffering doesn't matter because I suffer more" the person will reply (or at least think) "if you don't care about my suffering, then I don't care about yours", and that's not constructive, everyone suffers and everyone deserves to be treated equally.