Indeed.
My point is this. I know that things look very bleak at times. I know that all your examples are factual. But I also have my personal crusade that we no longer live in the 18th century.
We are not in disagreement. You talk about the "many": the many women that suffer under oppression, the many LGBTQ people that are routinely beaten up, or to death. But in a short historical span, we have reached "many", when in the past it was "all"; all women were oppressed, all LGBTQ people were sentenced to cruel punishments, to the point of death (Alan Turing in the UK as recently as the 1950's).
We are living in very trying times; two years of this pandemic, now this vicious, ridiculous but potentially catastrophic war. It is so easy to say we are animals, we are filth, we deserve our imminent extinction. I say no. Yes, we have problems, but hopefully, at this moment (and I mean 2022), we are in a trough from which we will come out.
I know it sounds ridiculous that it is ME SAYING THAT THINGS ARE BETTER THAN IN THE PAST. Feel free to laugh because I know some people are about to call the doctors and ask for the cold water hose and the 10-feet long sleeves jacket. I deserve that. But think about this: here you are, in a forum where plenty of members are open about their sexuality (just an example) and nobody cares about that. It says a little.
Last. You don't have to sign with respect. You have never been anything but.
And. Don't be so sure that I have not been subject to some sorts of discrimination. I am the citizen of a dictatorship, and I went to college in Florida, being latin-american. One or two state troopers were not as elegant as one would like