my oppinion on discrimination. trying to change the world

[myra1994]

Why do people discriminate? The colour of their skin? How big or small they are? The place that they are from? The people they choose to love? The skills they have? The way they think? The way they feel? What makes those who are themselves so wrong in the eyes of so many? We all have our own personalities, we all have hearts and we all have the same physical anatomy. We all have the same needs and we all get hurt. So why do some people think it is OK to hurt people for being individual? Whether you are black, Asian, white, gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gender, depressed, autistic, downs syndrome, bipolar, British, African, or American. Whether we grasp certain aspects of life, education and social situations and not grasp others. What makes us so different to the people we discriminate against? I'm not saying at all that I am perfect in this matter, I know that I still need to work at becoming less judgemental also but I'm trying! All I ask of anyone who reads this is that you try to understand and accept that we are all different, individual and unique but we are also all the same. Could people just stop hurting those they discriminate against because you may as well be discriminating against your brother, sister mum or dad because we are all human beings. Cant you see the hurt you are causing by refusing to unite? We are all responsible for the discrimination that occurs in our world.
Please, next time you hear someone being discriminative please don't just laugh along, challenge them and make them realise they are being ignorant, rude and hurtful. That way, maybe by the time our children's children grow up, they can all be united and accepting of our differences.
If you agree with what I have said please share this to your friends as it is an issue very close to my heart that I would like to try to rectify. I am only one mouth among billions but I'm asking you to step up as I have done tonight and try to change the world.

[Aletheia*]

I smiled when I read this post. It's great that you think this way, and don't judge a book by it's cover. I'm the same way, and I think there should be more people like you and me in this world.

However, people discriminate for many reasons that we may never understand. Our parents and grandparents all grew up in a time where discrimination was the 'in' thing. I know my own grandparents grew in the time when gay/lesbian people weren't the norm, where they kept it hidden from the world. And, where the color of your skin determined where on a bus you sat, what water fountain you drank from, where you sat at lunch and what jobs you could do. Many families raised their children this way, and they too, raised their children that way. My grandparents and parents were raised that way, and I refused to believe in what they did. Why should I, when someone has accepted me for who I am?

Whether we like it or not, discrimination is going to happen. We'll all be judged by the color of our skin, our sexualities, our personalities, the way we choose to live our lives. Life isn't perfect, and neither is anyone else.

[The Goblins Blade]

Humans will always attack and single out others, its sad but true. Ive had looks becouse of the way i dress, but i just ignore them and get on with my life.

[chickenonsteroids]

Stop there. You can't get rid of an idea.

We gave up peace as soon as we learnt how to kill other humans.

Knowledge has given us the power to discriminate (it's stupid but not all knowledge is good)

Trying to please everyone results in failure... slow painful contradictory failure.

Just throwing that out there.

[myra1994]

i see it as the human race developing. we may have discriminated in the past but that doesn't mean we have to in the future. even sci fi movies such as star wars display worlds where races live together and understand each other. i understand many people have view like ours but if we can stop even one discriminative person each think about the knock on effect that could have concerning wars. there would be less to fight about surely. there will always be disbutes but we can make a small difference a little bit at a time

[Loving Linux Penguin]

I agree with you completely, Jasmine. And I just completely refuse to believe that we HAVE to discriminate as part of who we are. I mean, sure, there will always be judging that takes place to SOME extent, but there's no reason that we shouldn't be able to peacefully coexist overall.

And I trust that you didn't mean to be offensive, but nobody "chooses" to love anyone. People just love whoever they love.

[Guile]

Some people are naturally better. Genetics are passed down through the generations, and as such, the superior people have the right to discriminate against inferior individuals. Survival of the fittest is a natural law, let's not try and break that. Now I'm not talking about "Ohh you're Jewish, I hate you" or "Ohh, you're into comic books, nerd!" (Unfounded discrimination), I'm talking about scientific principles and facts that back up the superiority of some humans based on their inherited genetic code.

[Loving Linux Penguin]

Such as WHAT exactly? ^^

[Revolution]

No human being is better than another. Period. Discrimination is how weak people express fear of the unknown, by being hateful.

[Guile]

Originally Posted by Loving Linux Penguin

Such as WHAT exactly? ^^

Need I post the Eugenics tree again?

[myra1994]

omg Guile are you a Nazi or something. your sounding like you believe in a superious race! surely you cannot be that shallow. no offense intended

[dr2005]

Originally Posted by Guile

Need I post the Eugenics tree again?

Need I post about why eugenics is nonsense again?

Anyway, I agree with the sentiments above - the mere fact that discrimination has been part of our part and is part of our present does not mean ipso facto that it must also be part of our future. Otherwise, most of us would still be deprived of the vote, apartheid would still be in place in South Africa and feudal lords would still reign supreme. We can quite easily shed the less salubrious aspects of our collective character if we so wish - perhaps the biggest problem is people don't want to. That is what needs to be challenged, and so in that respect I applaud the OP on this.

[Guile]

Originally Posted by myra1994

omg Guile are you a Nazi or something. your sounding like you believe in a superious race! surely you cannot be that shallow. no offense intended

Aka "Oh my God! Guile, are you a Nazi or something? You're sounding like you believe in a superior race! Surely you cannot be that shallow, no offense intended"

No, I am not a Nazi. In that Nazi is short for Nationalsozialistdeutschlandabrepartei (National Socialist Germn Worker's Party). I am not a Socialist, and I do not believe in Socialist systems. I support the elimination of inferior genetic traits through limited euthenasia, and sterilazation.

[Marguerite]

Originally Posted by Guile

Some people are naturally better. Genetics are passed down through the generations, and as such, the superior people have the right to discriminate against inferior individuals. Survival of the fittest is a natural law, let's not try and break that.

You do realise that this ^ process of thought led to this v process of thought...

Originally Posted by Guile

"Ohh you're Jewish, I hate you" (Unfounded discrimination).

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Discrimination can in a way be a form of character-building by making the person toughen up and not be a flake. I'll admit, many individuals in my family are discriminatory and racist, hell so am I. When it comes to eugenics, I support positive eugenics but less so for negative eugenics. I've always thought if someone says a discriminatory comment or some other comment meant to be hurtful, I laugh it off, unless I'm in a pretty angry mood to start with although that's pretty rare. If the comments continue, I look at it as an invitation to see how far I can bend them until they break.

[Bubbles37]

Originally Posted by The Man And XX Master

Discrimination can in a way be a form of character-building by making the person toughen up and not be a flake.

How, exactly?
I can see how tough love could build character, but discrimination is just wrong in my opinion.

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Originally Posted by Bubbles37

How, exactly?
I can see how tough love could build character, but discrimination is just wrong in my opinion.

If you were extremely sensitive to silly insults, discrimination would make you feel like a pile of shit. It takes strength to shake that feeling off and further strength to not fall into the pit of despair. Take playing guitar as an analogy. When you just start playing guitar (steel not nylon strings), your fingers are going to hurt pretty quickly. Eventually you keep practicing and build up callouses so you can play longer without feeling discomfort. If you don't develop callouses because you want to get good without putting much effort in, then your fingers will still hurt and you may eventually give up playing guitar.

[myra1994]

see i understand where the whole superior comments are coming from. i can often feel superior because i am classed as fairly intelligent. however when i think to myself, "for f**ks sake why am i in a class with people with stupid" i think to myself, well they may not be as clever as me in this area but there will be something they do beat me at. i believe some people should be "murdered" at birth for the sake of civilisation if they will not be able to contribute to society. but i have learned that many people have special skills, ideas, beliefs that they bring into this world. even people with downs syndrome contribute to society, in my college it is a group of disabled people who set up and run the sweet shop day after day. so i see where your coming from, that some people are better than others, but that isn't because of race or disabilities, sexuality or anything like that, its because of their skills, intellect, passion, that sort of thing

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Originally Posted by myra1994

see i understand where the whole superior comments are coming from. i can often feel superior because i am classed as fairly intelligent. however when i think to myself, "for f**ks sake why am i in a class with people with stupid" i think to myself, well they may not be as clever as me in this area but there will be something they do beat me at. i believe some people should be "murdered" at birth for the sake of civilisation if they will not be able to contribute to society. but i have learned that many people have special skills, ideas, beliefs that they bring into this world. even people with downs syndrome contribute to society, in my college it is a group of disabled people who set up and run the sweet shop day after day. so i see where your coming from, that some people are better than others, but that isn't because of race or disabilities, sexuality or anything like that, its because of their skills, intellect, passion, that sort of thing

That's discrimination because their differences lead to unfair treatment. What sorts of people do you suggest would be murdered at birth? Even if someone cannot wipe their own arse because they're that mentally disabled, caring for them requires hiring people or working to care for them at home, so indirectly they do contribute.

[The Goblins Blade]

Originally Posted by myra1994

see i understand where the whole superior comments are coming from. i can often feel superior because i am classed as fairly intelligent. however when i think to myself, "for f**ks sake why am i in a class with people with stupid" i think to myself, well they may not be as clever as me in this area but there will be something they do beat me at. i believe some people should be "murdered" at birth for the sake of civilisation if they will not be able to contribute to society. but i have learned that many people have special skills, ideas, beliefs that they bring into this world. even people with downs syndrome contribute to society, in my college it is a group of disabled people who set up and run the sweet shop day after day. so i see where your coming from, that some people are better than others, but that isn't because of race or disabilities, sexuality or anything like that, its because of their skills, intellect, passion, that sort of thing

Disabled people are still people, even if they cannot do things by themselfs. So you are saying that people who cannot put anything into society should be killed upon birth? Wow, where do you get your logical reasoning from?

[Bubbles37]

Originally Posted by The Man And XX Master

If you were extremely sensitive to silly insults, discrimination would make you feel like a pile of shit. It takes strength to shake that feeling off and further strength to not fall into the pit of despair. Take playing guitar as an analogy. When you just start playing guitar (steel not nylon strings), your fingers are going to hurt pretty quickly. Eventually you keep practicing and build up callouses so you can play longer without feeling discomfort. If you don't develop callouses because you want to get good without putting much effort in, then your fingers will still hurt and you may eventually give up playing guitar.

But discrimination is NOT always just silly little insults. Discrimination could range from an insult to beating someone severely, or even killing them. Yes, insults can make someone tougher, but someone should not have to deal with being hated for how they're born. I can see how your argument works for insults generally, but discrimination is way different.

[Marguerite]

Originally Posted by myra1994

see i understand where the whole superior comments are coming from. i can often feel superior because i am classed as fairly intelligent. however when i think to myself, "for f**ks sake why am i in a class with people with stupid" i think to myself, well they may not be as clever as me in this area but there will be something they do beat me at. i believe some people should be "murdered" at birth for the sake of civilisation if they will not be able to contribute to society. but i have learned that many people have special skills, ideas, beliefs that they bring into this world. even people with downs syndrome contribute to society, in my college it is a group of disabled people who set up and run the sweet shop day after day. so i see where your coming from, that some people are better than others, but that isn't because of race or disabilities, sexuality or anything like that, its because of their skills, intellect, passion, that sort of thing

I think people who don't capitalise should be murdered.

p.s,

THIS IS not SPARTA!!

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Originally Posted by Bubbles37

But discrimination is NOT always just silly little insults. Discrimination could range from an insult to beating someone severely, or even killing them. Yes, insults can make someone tougher, but someone should not have to deal with being hated for how they're born. I can see how your argument works for insults generally, but discrimination is way different.

if they're killed then they're not strengthened in any way, so that extreme display of discrimination was clearly not in the range I was referring to. Getting beaten severely does help to strengthen oneself, especially if they are permanently injured as they have to overcome the disability every day. That range is successful if we're talking about humans in a vacuum but in a practical setting it still is successful although the impairments may outweigh the successes. You're right, people should not have to deal with being hated from birth but that's like saying people shouldn't have to live on the streets due to no money and wars shouldn't happen because we should all love each other. It's going to happen so might as well turn it into something positive so people can build off it and use it to be successful rather than dwell on how negative it is because feeling bummed out, sad, and whatnot is productive and gets you nowhere good.

[BDF]

Discrimination doesn't necessarily mean hurting someone as such. In a way, I discriminate against people, by choosing which of them I want to be friends with and which I don't.


On a personal level (who you chose to be friends with), it is illogical to discriminate against someone on the basis of something they've had no choice in, such as their skin colour. It just simply doesn't make any damn sense to me. Even if someone doesn't like black people... how the hell can you blame them for being black, and so discriminate against them?

You can judge, and therefore discriminate against someone on the basis of what choices they make. It's how you chose your friends. I'm not usually fond of loud people, or guys who smack on cheap make-up and go to nightclubs half naked. I usually look upon it as an insecurity and attention seeking, and not something I want anything to do with. I'm unlikely to get abrasive which such people, unless I'm somehow confronted with them. I won't go out of my way just to throw insults, nor do I particularly feel the need to... but I'm unlikely to look for friendships with such people. It's not like it causes any harm anyway, there are 7 billion other people now for them to chose from. If they don't harm me, I don't harm them. It's different for people who deliberately, or out of negligence harm me in some way or other. For the example incompetent managers in the banking system. Yes, I think they suck and I have a strong dislike towards most of them even though I haven't even met them. Same applies to a lot of politicians who don't have a clue what they're doing and are negligent in their jobs. Prices of everything are rising, and there are fewer jobs to pay for those goods because of them. Same applies to some jerkbag on the train who thinks he's entitled to two seats (paid for one) when all others are taken, because he has a £50,000 salary and is somehow "more important" because of it. I believe I'm entitled to feel aversion towards those kind of people, and insult as I please.


On a more business level, it is logical to discriminate appropriately against certain people, even if the discrimination is based on something those people had no choice in. For example, you're not going to hire a cripple to work on a construction project, climbing scaffolding. It's an extreme example, but less extreme are many cases were foreigners with appalling accents are hired in British call centres. It's bad business and stupid. You need the right people for the right job, with the right eduction and abilities. When I'm talking to someone with an Indian accent and can't understand a damn shit of what they're saying, I just put the phone down, since it's a waste of time talking. I'll go somewhere else, or call back later and talk with someone with good diction.

[myra1994]

Originally Posted by The Man And XX Master

That's discrimination because their differences lead to unfair treatment. What sorts of people do you suggest would be murdered at birth? Even if someone cannot wipe their own arse because they're that mentally disabled, caring for them requires hiring people or working to care for them at home, so indirectly they do contribute.

i mean molar pregnancies, anyone who if going to live a short painful life should be put out of their misery at birth. didn't mean it to sound so harsh