Look just to be clear, it's not the prejudice that gets me. Everyone generally has some kind of prejudice with some group of people. It may be against emo kids, or girls that use the word "like" 5 times in a sentence. On top of that I'm kinda a free speech purist, and I don't care too much about the content of what someone says. That's why I said I found it funny, and not that I was outraged. It's just something that I wanted to point out. But again it's not the prejudice either that I wanted to point out, it's the hypocritical nature of defending particular groups from prejudice for the sake of equality and at the same time being prejudiced against others.
How is prejudice against prejudice not prejudice? Do the prejudices cancel each other out? Further, is murdering a murderer not murder? Or raping a rapist not rape? You can rationalize it any which way you wish and you may even have a reason to do so but prejudice is still being committed.
Look Creed I'm not trying to attack you here so I apologize ahead of time, I am simply trying to make a point. But I would just like to point out that this is the epitome of prejudice. You've met 12 people from Mississippi and you have made a general assumption over the majority of them. If the same assumption was made about black people on this forum, whoever made that assumption would get torched by everyone else on here. For example, I have modified your previous post:
If you would scream prejudice at this, but not when it's against southerners or any other group then you simply don't get to say you're against prejudice. That is not equality.
(July 6, 2013 at 1:28 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: It's not prejudiced to exhibit prejudice against prejudice...if there was even prejudice existing in this thread to begin with [protip: There's not]. Besides, it's not about the people necessarily as it is the government of the states themselves...and the majority of the people, who are responsible for voting said individuals in.
How is prejudice against prejudice not prejudice? Do the prejudices cancel each other out? Further, is murdering a murderer not murder? Or raping a rapist not rape? You can rationalize it any which way you wish and you may even have a reason to do so but prejudice is still being committed.
(July 6, 2013 at 9:16 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: All I know is every single person I've ever known or met from Mississippi were dumber than a bag of hammers being dropped on a evangelist's head [lemme just savor and drink deep of that mental image....mmmm...]. Surprisingly I've known a fairly sizable number of them, somewhere around a dozen. Not a completely representative sample size, I know, but twelve random, unrelated people from Mississippi all being the embodiment of "hurrdurr" is kind of damning to me...
There's gotta be at least a FEW that aren't brain dead from there, though...
...right?...
Look Creed I'm not trying to attack you here so I apologize ahead of time, I am simply trying to make a point. But I would just like to point out that this is the epitome of prejudice. You've met 12 people from Mississippi and you have made a general assumption over the majority of them. If the same assumption was made about black people on this forum, whoever made that assumption would get torched by everyone else on here. For example, I have modified your previous post:
All I know is every single person I've ever known or met that is black were dumber than a bag of hammers being dropped on a evangelist's head [lemme just savor and drink deep of that mental image....mmmm...]. Surprisingly I've known a fairly sizable number of them, somewhere around a dozen. Not a completely representative sample size, I know, but twelve random, unrelated people that are black all being the embodiment of "hurrdurr" is kind of damning to me...
If you would scream prejudice at this, but not when it's against southerners or any other group then you simply don't get to say you're against prejudice. That is not equality.
