Looking different deserves disrespect.

[Lace Neil Singer]

What makes me laugh sometimes is when people do that catbutt sneer and go, "Goffik"... and I'm wearing a dress I bought in a high street shop. FAIL on their part. XD I buy clothes I like; whether that's a Morticia style gothic gown or a short party dress, I will buy it if I like it.

[crashhelmet]

In the past we didn't have anti discrimination laws, so by default there was more discrimination. When was the last time you saw a slave? Are you telling me there is more discrimination now then at a point in history when one person could own another? Or that we have more discrimination now then during the Holocaust?


Besides affirmative action is just a different form of discrimination. Just because something benefits minorities at the expense of whites it doesn't mean it isn't discrimination.

Slavery was not an act of discrimination. Discrimination may flourish in this country and around the world because of it, but it was not an act of discrimination.

The Holocaust? That was horrible and was an act of discrimination. However, discrimination is more than just racial or religious. Discrimination is also based on gender, sexuality, weight, height, wealth, fashion, credit, education, the toys you have or car you drive.

Take the United States of America alone. Combine the number of gays persecuted with the number of women paid less for equal work, in addition to both the fat and poor kids getting picked on in school.

Take that number and add in the handicapped that get treated like second class citizens and the ex-cons that paid their dues and are trying to better their lives but can't get a job because of a mistake they made.

Add in the single fathers that can't get the same government support that single mothers get, if they can even get custody of the child to begin with.

Do I even need to mention the KKK and how it is STILL very much alive and active? What about all of the rest of the neo-nazi groups in this country?

Now lets talk about what people like to call "reverse discrimination." Really, there's nothing reverse about it. It is discrimination. Some minorities and organizations believe they have the right to commit discrimination simply because their group was discriminated against in the past or are currently being discriminated against. So now, we've got the discrimination going both ways. Our numbers have virtually doubled.

Try finding a male bartender on a swing shift at a local bar in the city of Las Vegas. They are few and far between. Why? Owners want the "hot chick" to draw the guys into the bar. Sounds like sexual discrimination to me.

There are multiple scholarships for minorities, but if someone was to create a scholarship strictly for whites, there would be yet another shit storm. Once again, sounds like discrimination to me.

I agree that Affirmative Action breeds discrimination, but it was put in place to try and combat it. Like many other things our government does, great intentions, bad results.

Now take a look at this whole grand picture. Do you still believe there is less discrimination now than in the past?

CH

[elsporko]

Every problem you illustrated, except reverse discrimination, was worse in the past. You might get some homophobes being prejudiced now, but in the past homosexuality was considered at best a mental disorder. A person might kill somebody for being the wrong race, religion, or sexuality, but now in, civilized countries at least, there are laws against that. In the past it would be perfectly acceptable go lynch somebody for being black, or Irish, or Catholic, or whatever. Today its the minority who hates. They might be vocal, but if somebody discriminates they are looked down upon. In the past it was not only acceptable but expected.

Think about the case of Lizzy Borden. Her explanation of the murders is that a Portuguese guy probably did it because earlier in a nearby county a Portuguese guy got into a fight with his boss. Obviously this meant the Portuguese were violent and were responsible for the murders. This line of thinking was not only acceptable but common.

Another thing to think about. If I owned a store and put up a sign that said "Irish need not apply" how long do you think I could go without legal trouble?

[telecom_goddess]

Discrimination may be illegal but it doesn't stop people from killing others because they are gay...what about the case of Matthew Shephard? The law didn't save him.

[elsporko]

But there is a law. In the past killing him for being gay would not only be socially acceptable but would be more socially acceptable then letting him live. Things aren't perfect but they sure are better.

[ladyneeva]

But just because things are better doesn't mean that things don't still need work. For that matter, it seems we're finding ever more and more inventive reasons to hate each other as time goes on and the old reasons fall out of favor. No matter what the issue is, there is always some self absorbed judgmental prick that feels that they have some divine right to dictate how other people are allowed to live their lives.

[Nyoibo]

Discrimination will never disappear, communities (and I'm using that to include everything up to coilitions of countries) get along better if there's someone they can all hate, it makes the masses easier to control and direct and keeps their focus somewhere else.

[jackfaire]

I proudly discriminate.

I discriminate against people who kick me.

[elsporko]

But just because things are better doesn't mean that things don't still need work. For that matter, it seems we're finding ever more and more inventive reasons to hate each other as time goes on and the old reasons fall out of favor. No matter what the issue is, there is always some self absorbed judgmental prick that feels that they have some divine right to dictate how other people are allowed to live their lives.

I never said things were perfect, it just bugs me when some one without enough drama in their life wants to angst about how things have never been worse when it isn't true.

[chaoticjthm]

Well i defienetly dress out of the norm but i can't say i get people saying anything negative. In fact for some wierd reason i've gotten quite the opposite the poeple that i thought would say something negative are the ones complimenting me. Really wierd and kind of creeps me out but that doesn't mean i haven't seen it. It hasn't happened in a long time but my group used to get harrased by people driveing by all the time yelling at us on rare occasions throwing stuff at us. Like i said it doesn't happen much anymore but it still does happen. I can't say if discrimination has gone up or down honestly cause i can see it both ways so idk.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't get comments now; I think it's cuz a lot of what I used to wear has gotten a bigger following. When I was at school, for example, Marilyn Manson and his fans were considered to be devil worshippers and weird and were treated as such. Now tho, I can wear a Manson shirt and no-one will blink an eyelid. XD