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> As a father of daughters [...] > Were I African American [...] I might feel differently. Why can't you incorporate women's issues into your world view witho
by badfrog 8y ago
> As a father of daughters [...]
> Were I African American [...] I might feel differently.
Why can't you incorporate women's issues into your world view without having daughters? Or civil rights issues without being black?
- Jtsummers 8y agoBecause many people are incapable or unwillling to practice viewing issues from perspectives other than their own.
- DoofusOfDeath 8y ago> Why can't you incorporate women's issues into your world view without having daughters? Or civil rights issues without being black? Most people are most sympathetic to the plight of themselves and perhaps their children. The GP has daughters and is presumably not African-American. I wonder if you're talking about an attitude that you think the OP ought to have, whereas he/she is describing the attitude that he/she does have.
- badfrog 8y ago> I wonder if you're talking about an attitude that you think the OP ought to have Yes, of course I am. My question was rhetorical. It sounds like that person understands that there are serious race issues in the criminal justice system but is willing to overlook them for his own self interest. I think we'd all be better off if we cared a bit more about people who are different from us.