To refuse to condemn an injustice practiced by a particular group of people because you are fearful of causing offence or being accused of causing offence IS discrimination.
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To refuse to condemn an injustice practiced by a particular group of people because you are fearful of causing offence or being accused of causing offence IS discrimination.
Really? Do tell. I want to hear more on how this works. Against whom is one discriminating when one engages in this sort of thing?
Here’s an example: There are black people who take offense at a white person equating discrimination against them with their discrimination agaist gays. While I was serving at a predominantly black parish at the time that an overwhelming number of black christians helped ban gay mmarriage in Califonia, I never hesitated to express my dismay that a group who had been discrimnated against would so easily discriminate against others.
Had I not done that for fear of offending I would have been giving tacit agreement with their position.
Yes. Not only that but I think you would have been patronising them. You would have been saying that they are “weaker” than your white friends who you would complain about to their faces if you thought they were being unjust. And that would have been discrimination.
Not quite getting it yet. Sorry. I’m not understanding who is being discriminated against.
I suppose, Jonathan, it has to do with the way you phrased the original thought. If you had said it “encourages” discrimination that would have made more sense to me. But you said it IS discrimination. That “IS” there makes a lot of difference in how I understand your statement. Which at the moment, I don’t.