RE: Majority of Americans support gay rights over religious freedom bills
April 16, 2015 at 9:35 pm
(April 15, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote: Unlike for blacks, no history of chattel slavery or Jim Crow attends the other groups, whose members have generally experienced little difficulty in voting and securing employment, housing, or consumer essentials. Although it has been necessary to ban certain kinds of discrimination, we've never defined prejudice itself as a wrong, only that its absence is a virtue.
Do you have any idea how sociopathic you sound when you say things like this? This argument is one of the most immoral justifications for a law I've ever heard: "Oh, this group hasn't suffered enough to be worth protection yet." What that means is that you've quantified injustice in your head, such that the group in question hasn't passed the minimum threshold of discrimination and anguish necessary for your empathy to be engaged to action. It's not an argument that no injustice is happening, just that you are content with the level of injustice currently going on. Your complacency is not an argument.
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