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E, DanielJames: "Protected groups can say anything, and if it so happens to cross the line, then no worries, they can simply apologize. Their historic oppression has entitled them to not be responsible for words they may utter. Non-protected groups have to monitor themselves and if they cross the line, there's hell to pay, an NO apology can take it back or make ammends. "
"Protected groups"? "Non protected groups"? This statement boldly paints one person's understanding of the world he lives in, that he feels not part of a larger grouping called human beings and universal rights and wrongs, but instead segregated groupings whose experiences are so different he is mystefied by their brutalized journey into society's grudging acceptance.
You can taste the very distaste and disapproval in the words, and gnawing injustice he percieves.
Makes me sick. Same way people talk about "the jews in holliwood and how they run everything" even as they follow up with "not that there's anything wrong with that, you've got to give them credit for being so creative and ingenious at coopting all that power..".
Or on gays and "their lifestyles", and how many white christians truly believe in their soul that these 'people' are only getting what they deserve and gods corrective punishment.
For me, anytime you seperate yourself from understanding injustice that would be injustice in your own world every-bit-as-much as it is in someone else's, you add a grain of intolerance and hate into this world.
Just because justice doesn't come equally to all people at all times, doesn't mean you shouldn't believe that it must at every opportunity it can.
Daniel