Should we discriminate the discrimination?

I was thinking the last few days about the discrimination that is against
practically everyone – gypsies, black people, people with different religion and nationality.
My thoughts wasn’t about how bad is to discriminate someone who you don’t really
know; things that are clear to everyone. On the other hand, I was astonished about the fact that
people who defend the discriminated people like gypsies, etc. are actually discriminating
the people who are against the gypsies like skinners. What I am trying to figure out
is whether the discrimination of the discriminators would lead to something creative and
valuable? And do we become people who discriminate when we don’t assume the discriminators as
people like us. Is this needed? They ARE people like us. Of course what they do is not right
but again who are the real discriminators we or they? Maybe that is the way to teach skinners
a lesson, a lesson that I could not understand.

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4 Responses to “Should we discriminate the discrimination?”

  1. Michael L. Gooch Says:
    June 30, 2008 at 3:56 am

    “There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28. Sad to say, this ancient truth is nowhere to be seen in the modern American arena. Do we discriminate against people that ‘different’ from us? What a strange world that we still have issues regarding discrimination. Like sexual harassment, the true victims rarely report it while the abused suffer in silence. This is a problem. Huge Problem. In my book, I devote a chapter to discrimination and how it is often over-looked or swept into a dark corner. And yes, it still exists in modern America. While we pour more stupid laws into the books to prevent such painful actions, we fail to fix the real problem, that is, the root. In addition, we have been conditioned by lawyers to believe that legal and moral are the same thing. So sad. Whenever a human is treated differently than the masses, we should take a cold, hard look at the situation. A hard look indeed. Maybe even the mirror. Michael L. Gooch, SPHR Author of Wingtips with Spurs: Cowboy Wisdom for Today’s Business Leaders http://www.michaellgooch.com

  2. lyd Says:
    June 30, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Well, how do gypsy advocates discriminate skinheads? Are you sure you don’t mean “criticism”, not “discrimination”. Well, I don’t need to speculate. Tell us a story to illustrate your point :)

  3. plamba Says:
    June 30, 2008 at 9:11 am

    What I meant is that these people who defend the gypsies,black people,etc (not the gypsies themselves) at the same time look with the “discriminating” eye (maybe criticising don’t know for sure) the people who discriminate gypsies, black people, etc. My point is to determine the way to stop the discrimination and to reallize if the criticising of skinheads could lead to the real end of discrimination.

  4. Yunuz Says:
    June 30, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    What is discrimination indeed? I believe the request for an illustrating story has a proper ground here. But let me speculate without having such.

    Discrimination is a misjudgement about what matters and what doesn’t. The mere claim that someone shouldn’t act in some manner is still not a discrimination. We do that all the time and it is one of the fundamental ways for human development. Such claim is a result and the real issue is how one achieves that result. If you are a gypsy trying to get a job in my company, I might, of course, refuse hiring you. If that’s because you’re not qualified, that would be an acceptable reasoning. If that’s simply because of your ethnic origin, that’s rather wrong as I am using improper tools to achieve the result I need.

    Now, if I still do not hire you with the latter reasoning and someone (even a third party) claims that I am wrong and have to bear the consequences of my guilt, I wouldn’t say there is a discrimination against me. It doesn’t use my act or reasoning process to judge me about something completely different and unrelated to my values. My values are something I choose myself and I am responsible for.

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