WARNING: THIS IS NOT A "LIGHT" POST. IT IS WHAT ANABEL CALLS A "HEAVY" POST BECAUSE DISCRIMINATION IS NOT A FUNNY ANNOYING SUBJECT.
I really don't need to elaborate on this one, but I will because it irritates me to a whole new level.
In my opinion, to judge someone for who or what or where they are born is akin to condemning a daisy for not blooming a rose, or scorning the moon for not being a star. They cannot help it; it isn't something they can control. And it's the same way with people. How can we judge someone on something they cannot even control? I simply can't fathom it at all.
When are people going to learn that it's not a choice? No one gets to choose. It's not like anyone woke up saying, "Okay, I've decided that I'm going to be _____." Fill in any adjective: black, white, female, male, gay, straight, disabled, able-bodied. Even religion, although many might protest that religion is a choice and that many people do choose their religion. For some people, that's certainly true enough, but there are many others who regard their religion as a part of themselves and would refuse to renounce it because they are discriminated against for practicing it.
Regardless, little choice exists. I really can't stand people who try to justify their blatant racism/sexism/homophobia with the idea that either they have a choice or that something inherent makes them better than others. How is that possible? Who decides who is better? Certainly not an entity no one in living memory has ever had contact with. Certainly not a mere book. No, everyone is, at birth, equal in their value of life. Not because someone said it was so, but because they exist. Discrimination, and the idea that one person is better than another simply because of who they were born, is ridiculous.
A person is as they are born, and it is not something they can change. A person will look at others and think, "I am better because they are not like me." But how is that so, when just as easily being him or her, they could have been born them? A slight twist of the hand, another roll of the dice, and that person could've been standing exactly where those other people are standing, feeling exactly as they are feeling, scorned exactly as they are scorned, hated exactly as they are hated.
Just because they're not like you doesn't mean they don't matter. Just because they're different doesn't mean they're inferior, and for some reason the human race can't understand that. So when people go around judging people for who they are, it's more than annoying, it's disgusting.
And it's not like similarities don't exist, because they do. When I was in sixth grade, we read Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, and the part that stuck out the most was Shylock's speech near the end:
I really don't need to elaborate on this one, but I will because it irritates me to a whole new level.
In my opinion, to judge someone for who or what or where they are born is akin to condemning a daisy for not blooming a rose, or scorning the moon for not being a star. They cannot help it; it isn't something they can control. And it's the same way with people. How can we judge someone on something they cannot even control? I simply can't fathom it at all.
When are people going to learn that it's not a choice? No one gets to choose. It's not like anyone woke up saying, "Okay, I've decided that I'm going to be _____." Fill in any adjective: black, white, female, male, gay, straight, disabled, able-bodied. Even religion, although many might protest that religion is a choice and that many people do choose their religion. For some people, that's certainly true enough, but there are many others who regard their religion as a part of themselves and would refuse to renounce it because they are discriminated against for practicing it.
Regardless, little choice exists. I really can't stand people who try to justify their blatant racism/sexism/homophobia with the idea that either they have a choice or that something inherent makes them better than others. How is that possible? Who decides who is better? Certainly not an entity no one in living memory has ever had contact with. Certainly not a mere book. No, everyone is, at birth, equal in their value of life. Not because someone said it was so, but because they exist. Discrimination, and the idea that one person is better than another simply because of who they were born, is ridiculous.
A person is as they are born, and it is not something they can change. A person will look at others and think, "I am better because they are not like me." But how is that so, when just as easily being him or her, they could have been born them? A slight twist of the hand, another roll of the dice, and that person could've been standing exactly where those other people are standing, feeling exactly as they are feeling, scorned exactly as they are scorned, hated exactly as they are hated.
Just because they're not like you doesn't mean they don't matter. Just because they're different doesn't mean they're inferior, and for some reason the human race can't understand that. So when people go around judging people for who they are, it's more than annoying, it's disgusting.
And it's not like similarities don't exist, because they do. When I was in sixth grade, we read Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, and the part that stuck out the most was Shylock's speech near the end:
This is a perfect illustration of the similarities between people: all require nourishment, all can be harmed, all can get sick, all feel some emotion depending on the situation: all eat, breathe, laugh, cry, love, hate, live, die. We are, above all else, people. That is our uniting factor; that is the only quality of any of us that matter. No matter any distinguishing characteristic, we have similarities; and inevitably, each "group" of people contains people that transcend those groups. For example, each group contains geniuses and...shall we say...idiots.
There's also the question of why it matters if some people are different. I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in living in a world of people who look and act the same way. That makes for a very boring world.
Basically, if you're going to take anything from this blog post, take this:
I do not abide by discrimination in any way, shape, or form. I believe that there are idiots in every color, race, gender, and religion.
Remember:
There's also the question of why it matters if some people are different. I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in living in a world of people who look and act the same way. That makes for a very boring world.
Basically, if you're going to take anything from this blog post, take this:
I do not abide by discrimination in any way, shape, or form. I believe that there are idiots in every color, race, gender, and religion.
Remember: