Richard Dawkins: bigoted against those with Down's syndrome?

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224. no, I didn't compare people with DS to black children

That is your prejudice against people with Down Syndrome in your eye that you are reading with, not my prejudice to black children.

The example was that it is none of my business why someone chooses to have a baby or not, but it is my business when people generalize about a whole group of other people.

And you just did that. You just said something that was not accurate about an entire group of people based on your preconceptions of their disability.

I'll give you another example.

Another name for Down Syndrome is Trisomy 21. This is because there is an extra chromosome or chromosomal material on the 21st pair.

There are also some children born with extra chromosomal material, compared to other children, in the 23rd pair.

Those children with that extra chromosomal material in the 23rd pair face a host of medical issues that children born without that material do not. In the US, children with that material in 23rd pair on average make lower life-long incomes. In some countries, these children are not even allowed to enter school.

What if, instead of the 21st pair, Dawkins had said that it was immoral not to abort a child with that extra chromosomal material in the 23rd pair? After all, many would argue and generalize that they are destined to a life more difficult than those born without that extra chromosomal material.