RE: Discrimination, oppression, and the War on Christianity
July 9, 2019 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2019 at 1:55 pm by Losty.)
Are you expected to infer that people could be offended by what you do? Umm...yes, to an extent.
What kind of crap is this “everyone stop pretending and just find a group that accepts you” what? You realize that makes no sense right? Do you expect people to choose not to be a part of society just because they’re different? Go hang out with the 3 other atheists in your town. My son is not allowed to play football because everyone else on the team is a Christian and he’s not? Your solution for him is to go hang out with his own kind? What?
We live in a society. It may not be obvious to you, but there are people who keep their personal business personal in order to function better within that society. It’s not pretending to be something they’re not. Choosing not to disclose that I’m not a Christian is not the same thing as pretending to be a Christian. If you make assumptions, that’s on you not me.
If you’re not in church and it’s not a religious activity, there’s no reason for you to be doing a group prayer anyway, say your own prayer and if anyone else thinks praying is something they’d like to do, they can say their own prayer. On their own. Isn’t there a bible verse that tells you to pray in private anyway?
Telling people who are different from you to go find their own group that accepts them for who they are...that is the definition of discrimination. I’m not saying it’s criminal or should be punished, but it’s bigotry and it’s wrong.
As for your second point, if someone made a “locker room joke” about trans people in my business, they would be immediately fired, and I’m not even trans. Not knowing someone is trans is not an excuse to make bigoted jokes about trans people. You shouldn’t be making those jokes even if no one around is trans.
How could I be treated badly unintentionally because I don’t immediately come out to every person as soon as I meet them? Could you give an example?
Because I feel like what you’re saying is if someone assumes I’m straight and makes a bigoted joke about lgtbq+ people, then it would be my fault for not disclosing my sexuality to that person.
If that’s the case, I have to disagree. People shouldn’t be assholes, even if they think no one else would be offended. I’m not Jewish, but I would be offended about bigotry towards Jews, I’m not black but I would be offended if someone started throwing around the n-word.
What kind of crap is this “everyone stop pretending and just find a group that accepts you” what? You realize that makes no sense right? Do you expect people to choose not to be a part of society just because they’re different? Go hang out with the 3 other atheists in your town. My son is not allowed to play football because everyone else on the team is a Christian and he’s not? Your solution for him is to go hang out with his own kind? What?
We live in a society. It may not be obvious to you, but there are people who keep their personal business personal in order to function better within that society. It’s not pretending to be something they’re not. Choosing not to disclose that I’m not a Christian is not the same thing as pretending to be a Christian. If you make assumptions, that’s on you not me.
If you’re not in church and it’s not a religious activity, there’s no reason for you to be doing a group prayer anyway, say your own prayer and if anyone else thinks praying is something they’d like to do, they can say their own prayer. On their own. Isn’t there a bible verse that tells you to pray in private anyway?
Telling people who are different from you to go find their own group that accepts them for who they are...that is the definition of discrimination. I’m not saying it’s criminal or should be punished, but it’s bigotry and it’s wrong.
As for your second point, if someone made a “locker room joke” about trans people in my business, they would be immediately fired, and I’m not even trans. Not knowing someone is trans is not an excuse to make bigoted jokes about trans people. You shouldn’t be making those jokes even if no one around is trans.
How could I be treated badly unintentionally because I don’t immediately come out to every person as soon as I meet them? Could you give an example?
Because I feel like what you’re saying is if someone assumes I’m straight and makes a bigoted joke about lgtbq+ people, then it would be my fault for not disclosing my sexuality to that person.
If that’s the case, I have to disagree. People shouldn’t be assholes, even if they think no one else would be offended. I’m not Jewish, but I would be offended about bigotry towards Jews, I’m not black but I would be offended if someone started throwing around the n-word.
