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Discrimination is by definition unfair; therefore divisive. I thought everyone agrees on that. It's very hypocritical to scream how discrimination against wome
by vsl 9y ago
Discrimination is by definition unfair; therefore divisive. I thought everyone agrees on that.
It's very hypocritical to scream how discrimination against women or POC is bad and needs to be routed out, only to turn around and start discriminating yourself.
Discriminating against anyone (yes, even people you disagree with or don't like) is unfair.
Treating people differently based on their gender is sexist.
Smearing, bullying and firing somebody for disagreeing with you is bigoted.
The hypocrisy on display in this whole brouhaha is astounding.
- Mindcraft 9y agoDiscrimination is not by definition unfair, the context is important, or do you think aiding people in need but not those who aren't is unfair?. If you want to reach a balanced state from a unbalanced one, you need to discriminate to provide more for the people that are behind.
- gspetr 9y agoWhat we should provide is equality of opportunity (i.e. anyone should be given a fair and equal treatment in an interview) not equality of outcome (someone should be given a job, just because they represent a certain segment of population).
- radisb 9y agoExactly. I really can't understand why someone would fail to see this. Unless they have some other definition of equality. But I genuinely would like to hear other definitions and discuss the semantics of that word in the social context.
- platform13 9y agoequality of opportunity should mean that equivalent effort should yield equivalent results, right?