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Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
10. Discrimination is not inherently wrong. Neither is segregation.
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 06:27 PM
Jan 2022

She is saying these things because both she, and her followers are ignorant and stupid. They actually understand that racial discrimination and segregation is considered by the vast majority of people to be wrong and socially unacceptable. They want to equate those two concepts with other types of acceptable and valid discrimination and segregation.

If you were running a women's domestic abuse shelter, would you hire a man with a history of convictions and current charges of Intimate partner violence as a counselor? NO. You would discriminate against him because of his history of violence against the very population you are trying to make safe. That is discrimination and it is valid and it is legal and ethical.

If you were running an advocacy group for advancing the rights of Black Americans, would you hire a know and active White Supremacist on your staff? NO. You would be discriminating against that person, but for good reason. They represent view antithetical to the aims of your organization. That is VALID discrimination.

When you are sick with a highly transmissible disease, you are put into isolation. You are segregated from others because you pose a risk to their health. Similarly, you can be segregated when you are immunocompromised and there is a risk of you catching a disease.

When you break the law and are dangerous to society, you will likely end up in jail or prison. You are SEGRAGATED from the rest of society for the term of your incarceration. That is legal and valid.

Discrimination based solely on the color of your skin, your sex and/or gender, your sexual orientation, religion, age, and other characteristics, is WRONG and ILLEGAL.

Discrimination on you being a selfish asshole, is not any of those things. If you are a woman, or a Black person, or gay, or older, or whatever, and you are acting like an asshole in my place of business or whatever, I can kick you out and it would be perfectly fine because I am not discriminating against you because of who you are, but because of how you are behaving.

This is what the idiot Greene, and here people are trying to conflate. You can absolutely discriminate and segregate against people who pose a health risk.

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