Random Thought of the Day

How come if we dislike someone on the basis of their skin colour, religion, sexual orientation or heritage. It is often against the law to openly express such dislike and considered a prejudiced thing to do.

However it is fine to hate someone for their political and personal beliefs, ridicule them and openly express such hatred?

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However it is fine to hate someone for their political and personal beliefs, ridicule them and openly express such hatred?

Religion got a special exemption early on, but the other things are considered unchosen.

Nobody should have to put up with discrimination based on who they are born as.

Anyway, I think you can still dislike everyone if you want to. The law says you can't openly not hire, or not provide housing though and similar things.

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Religion got a special exemption early on, but the other things are considered unchosen.

Nobody should have to put up with discrimination based on who they are born as.

But some religions have more seem to have more exemptions than others. The Christian religious right is expected to give up their beliefs in regards to abortion and sexuality but we don't ask other religions to give up any of their beliefs.

The "born this way" argument which may be true for many/most of the LGBT community but their are many self proclaimed bisexuals that don't really care who they have sex with.

What about a hillbilly that was raised in relative isolation is he not discriminated against because of who he was born as. He is probably more a different nationality than many of the closely related countries that exist in Europe.

I don't have a an answer or do I have a lot of preconceived ideas about the question I have raised. I do think that for many of all political and religious stripes that they feel the answer is self evident and those who disagree with them are wrong.

The poor white feel they are disenfranchised and that Trump is a solution. The poor blacks feel disenfranchised and that Hillary is the solution.

Whatever the solution is it will only be found when we collectively get back to honouring others opinions and being able to have an honest discussion. It seems that skill is no longer valued or used. As the title of James Hoggan's book says "I'm right and your an idiot" is the current norm.

Random observation of mine that may be subject to sampling error:

I don't seem to see too many black dudes with long hair these days* - from what I can tell, though, of those that exist, nearly all of them may be running backs in the NFL.

*this is where the sampling error might be. Is it the case that if you are around a lot of young Af/Am males these days, you see a lot of long hair?

Quote: odiousgambit

Random observation of mine that may be subject to sampling error:

I don't seem to see too many black dudes with long hair these days* - from what I can tell, though, of those that exist, nearly all of them may be running backs in the NFL.

*this is where the sampling error might be. Is it the case that if you are around a lot of young Af/Am males these days, you see a lot of long hair?

I don't see a lot of dudes with long hair, period. The popular styles are high and tight, or shaved to hide the balding.... unless you're in a hipster neighborhood.

Long hair is a pain to maintain.

We have come a little ways since the 60's. Long hair on men has been more of a no issue. Some people had some pretty rude commentary if you wore your hair long. I was kind of surprised when shaving the head became so popular among young men. You didn't see that much either.

The Beatles upset the status quo in the US with their mop tops.

Does anyone else go ballistic when the company's tech support tells you "it's fixed," and they left everything as it was exactly?

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Does anyone else go ballistic when the company's tech support tells you "it's fixed," and they left everything as it was exactly?

I think that is a technique used in high profile political prisoner camps where they want to break down the prisoner's mental state. They act like really bad customer service. It's very effective at driving people crazy.

; )

Someone tell Senator McCain of Arizona to put down the Kool-Aid, even if he thinks he made it himself.

Or maybe tell him to drink it. I don't know.