Which people-groups are currently allowed to be hated?
Likewise, as the internal act of getting offended becomes more and more socially reprehensible, the more frivolous the items taken offense at will be. With more freedom of speech permitted, and unpunished, more offenses are bound to occur but recognition of what actually merits offense will be refined as well.
When I worked at McDonald's, for instance, there would often be customers offended at the slightest of things - like having to wait 2 minutes and 45 seconds while fries cooked in the deep fryer. Compare this to what the employees have to put up with near constantly - angry customers and managers who keep threatening their employment status. The customers enter with the attitude of aristocracy and the mindset that the people who wait upon them are servants, and as such any offense happening within the mind of a customer often leads to threats from the customer and demands that the persons they have taken offense at be executed. They don't know how to control their emotions because they believe the internal act of taking offense to be external and thus seek the removal of the cause of their internal offense. Now it might not be good business to have employees allowed to talk-back to such high minded individuals as that form of customer, as that type of customer would walk out after getting offended to the point, for them, of being homicidal, but if it were a general situation that employees could respond in kind to such customers I think that more people would finally grow a spinal column and have a bit more emotional fortitude.
thank you for providing a perfect analogy to support the idea that reverse racism is not as bad as regular racism (if it exists at all, which has not been established). in this analogy, a white male who experiences "racism" is like the rich man claiming to be starving. i think white people have become oversensitive ("offended at the slightest of things", as you said) to perceived racism, but it pales in comparison to what minorites have hostorically experienced.
even the idea that the rich people externalize blame fits really well. one example of reverse racism that was under consideration was the idea of being passed over for a job because of a white skin tone. in fact, it very likely has more to do with qualifications and experience, because hiring quotas are generally based on proportionally representing the actual population within the workforce. anyway, instead of a person taking responsibility for becoming a competitive choice in the workforce, the tendency is to blame the employers for supposedly racist hiring practices.
I think the problem isn't that so-called reverse racism is any less wrong, but more that the term tends to be misapplied. Employment quotas and affirmative action aren't racism; they may be ill advised policy, but they are not racism, and the use of the term in that situation is inappropriate.
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People should be allowed to hate whoever they like.
That doens't really change what they can and cannot do in respect to the law. Besides, hate is an emotion of weakness, it makes you vulnerable and easily manipulated. It also often creates weak rationalization for causes that would otherwise make no sense. So why would you put yourslef through that?
That doens't really change what they can and cannot do in respect to the law. Besides, hate is an emotion of weakness, it makes you vulnerable and easily manipulated. It also often creates weak rationalization for causes that would otherwise make no sense. So why would you put yourslef through that?
I hate being dirty. My hatred of being dirty motivates me to stay clean. So what is wrong with hatred?
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That's not so bad, but wouldn't your health be improved if you motivation for sanitation was aligned with more objective standards? IE: Bacteriaphobes who haven't realized the human body lives in synergy with many bacteria strains that improve bodily function?
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do you see that the minor actions that appear to be racism against whites are not included in this definition?
Notice that it also doesn't cover minor inconveniences to any race, nor does it cover disparaging statements about other races that fall short of claiming genetic inferiority.
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do you see that the minor actions that appear to be racism against whites are not included in this definition?
Notice that it also doesn't cover minor inconveniences to any race, nor does it cover disparaging statements about other races that fall short of claiming genetic inferiority.
yes.
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do you see that the minor actions that appear to be racism against whites are not included in this definition?
Notice that it also doesn't cover minor inconveniences to any race, nor does it cover disparaging statements about other races that fall short of claiming genetic inferiority.
yes.
Did you notice that the definition you provided from the Omniscient Wikipedia said that racism also involves preferential treatment? The policies of Affirmative Action and "Equal Opportunity Employment" were made by Congress and the Senate. These policies encourage the preferential treatment of some individuals over others on the basis of skin color or other minority status, so Congress and the Senate encourage racism.
do you see that the minor actions that appear to be racism against whites are not included in this definition?
Notice that it also doesn't cover minor inconveniences to any race, nor does it cover disparaging statements about other races that fall short of claiming genetic inferiority.
yes.
Did you notice that the definition you provided from the Omniscient Wikipedia said that racism also involves preferential treatment? The policies of Affirmative Action and "Equal Opportunity Employment" were made by Congress and the Senate. These policies encourage the preferential treatment of some individuals over others on the basis of skin color or other minority status, so Congress and the Senate encourage racism.
nope, that is a minor inconvenience as long as disproportionately more white people have positions in those same fields. in many cases, even with equal opportunity employment programs, certain groups are still disadvantaged. affirmative action is intended to change systemic racism (also included in the definition).
besides, if there is a job to fill, and there are 2 equal candidates - one white and one black, why shouldn't the black person be selected, in those careers where they are underrepresented? why not fill the job with an individual who is institutionally disadvantaged, if all other aspects are equal?
in that definition, the "preferential treatment" is based on the idea of superiority. nobody is saying racial minorites are superior - simply equal. based on that distinction, affirmative action is not racist.
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Then flip a coin.
ahh, i see that once again you have ignored my main point. i already explained in the comment itself as to why one candidate would be chosen over another, but you are disregarding that part.
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ahh, i see that once again you have ignored my main point. i already explained in the comment itself as to why one candidate would be chosen over another, but you are disregarding that part.
In another thread you actually responded that some forms of racism are acceptable. I hope you don't mind me disregarding that one as well.
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