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#1152Almalieque, Posted: Nov 13 2011 at 3:35 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) But not to the extent where there is enough opposition to prevent homosexual gains, which is what I clarified.
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Whelp, reading the actual text of DADT, it certainly appears to be the "main"reason.


Only if you are defining "comfort" in the most basic definition. This is the same level of "comfort" on why women and men are separated. You can't support it when it doesn't affect homosexuality and call it a weak argument when it opposes homosexuality and not be a hypocrite.

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You're purposefully making a useless false equivalent.


How so? How is saying something being different equivalent to saying something being equivalent? I just blew you away and you have nothing to counter with.

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Only Alma's definition of discrimination, not the "unjust prejudice" one.


There you go again, making crap up. What definition? Under your belief, any lawsuit over discrimination should be upheld. Just because YOU think it's unjust, doesn't mean everyone else does. Hence once again, the hooters case vs flight attendant cases. One was upheld and the other was not. They were both discrimination cases.

WTF does "prejudice" have anything to do with "discrimination"? This is more evidence of you just throwing around words in hopes of making a solid argument.

Please explain to me how not hiring someone at a desk job, simply because of the color of their skin is not "unjust"? You some how support this, but have yet said how it isn't "unjust". So, you believe in the "two wrongs make a right" theory.......

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Nope, since I don't find affirmative action discrimination (unjust prejudice) I still very much believe skin color & sexual orientation can't logically be discriminated against. The onus is on you, as always, to try & convince me using Alma logic that there's a situation where it's cool to discriminate against guys who like to suck ****.

But you're a coward, so...


What does prejudice have anything to do with discrimination?

How is denying someone a desk job simply because of their skin color not "unjust"?

How does your opinion outweigh the opinion of the people who can't support their families because they can't get hired simply due to their skin colors? Just because you support affirmative action, doesn't mean it isn't discrimination.

I asked you a very specific question to differentiate affirmative action and discrimination and you haven't.

I told you on post 206. The onus is on you to counter. All you have done was deny anything was said.

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Post #385.

Post #206 includes gays are icky (SHOWERS!), but that remains an illogical reason to discriminate.


"Showers" doesn't equal "Gays are icky". That's just nonsense that you created. I have female friends that flirt with me who wouldn't feel comfortable being naked in front of me. They don't think I'm "icky". There's even women that I've seen naked before that will still be modest about nudity.

As I said, acceptance of homosexuality has nothing to do with sexual modesty. Those are two different issues. Stop making crap up.

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How so?
#1155 Nov 13 2011 at 5:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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Only if you are defining "comfort" in the most basic definition. This is the same level of "comfort" on why women and men are separated. You can't support it when it doesn't affect homosexuality and call it a weak argument when it opposes homosexuality and not be a hypocrite.


Sure I can, provided the polls show more people being comfortable with homosexuals in the military now as opposed to a minority being comfortable when DADT was implemented. If you want to apply that to gender too, then you gots to get the womans to poll that the majority of them would be comfortable with co-ed facilities. Since thats a fantasy, its a false equivalent.

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How so? How is saying something being different equivalent to saying something being equivalent? I just blew you away and you have nothing to counter with.


Read above. Also, I knew you secretly wanted to blow me all this time, but now I have proof!

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There you go again, making crap up. What definition? Under your belief, any lawsuit over discrimination should be upheld.


Only if the reason for the discrimination can be proven to be due to "unjust prejudice"!
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Just because YOU think it's unjust, doesn't mean everyone else does.


This is true, but its a good thing we have laws that differentiate what can & cannot be discriminated against. Like sexual orientation, which is one of those things that are illegal to discriminate because of.

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WTF does "prejudice" have anything to do with "discrimination"? This is more evidence of you just throwing around words in hopes of making a solid argument.


Prejudice is in the definition:

dis·crim·i·na·tion/disˌkriməˈnāSHən/

Noun:

1. The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

2. Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.

Also, lol @ "throwing around words in hopes of making a solid argument". Coincidentally, thats exactly what post #206 is!

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Please explain to me how not hiring someone at a desk job, simply because of the color of their skin is not "unjust"? You some how support this, but have yet said how it isn't "unjust". So, you believe in the "two wrongs make a right" theory.......


Until something better than affirmative action comes along, I'm going to support it. I don't believe that Affirmative action is prejudicial, but the Klan probably disagrees with me. I couldn't care less.

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What does prejudice have anything to do with discrimination?


Quite a bit, according to the definition.
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How is denying someone a desk job simply because of their skin color not "unjust"?


If it's affirmative action, which is legal.
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How does your opinion outweigh the opinion of the people who can't support their families because they can't get hired simply due to their skin colors?


It doesn't. Everyone has opinions!
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Just because you support affirmative action, doesn't mean it isn't discrimination.


Just because you don't support it, doesn't mean it is.
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I asked you a very specific question to differentiate affirmative action and discrimination and you haven't.


Not hiring you because you're black is discrimination. Hiring you because you're black is not discrimination (Affirmative action). Not hiring you because you're a fucking idiot is not discrimination.

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"Showers" doesn't equal "Gays are icky". That's just nonsense that you created. I have female friends that flirt with me who wouldn't feel comfortable being naked in front of me. They don't think I'm "icky". There's even women that I've seen naked before that will still be modest about nudity.


Why must you turn this forum into a den of lies? We all know you've never seen a girl naked.


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#1156 Nov 13 2011 at 6:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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Why must you turn this forum into a den of lies? We all know you've never seen a girl naked.

Every time Alma posts, it's a lie. He thinks it's the truth, but we all know better.

Of course, he could have been talking about his cousin or something...
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I simply stated that if the subset of religious people only contains a small amount of opposition (another subset), then there is no way that particular small subset of a subset can outweigh the total subset of people favoring homosexuality. The only way that position of sexuality would be upheld would be if there were enough people in the nonreligious subset that opposed homosexuality. Since they are all under the same set, if that occurred, you can't claim that the opposition were in the "minority".


No, because the people who favor freedom of sexual choice do not use that as issue that they automatically select for in a candidate. If you understood how sets worked, it would be the 'vocal minority' subset, whereby one group bases 70~100% of their decision of an issue and other groups base 5-20% of their decision off the issue. If you don't control for other factors, which candidate elections do not, then you will see those issues skew the candidate pool even though they do not reflect majority opinion.
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Alma wrote:
But not to the extent where there is enough opposition to prevent homosexual gains, which is what I clarified.

Not "clarified," "backpaddled." You said:
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People continuously argue that it's religion that attacks homosexuality when something isn't supported. Then these same people turn around and claim that majority of the religious people support it?!?! Nope, pick one. Both can't occur.

Which is wrong, and has already been demonstrated as such. I have no interest in dealing with any additional restrictions or addendum you tack on after the fact to try and hide your mistake.

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There's even women that I've seen naked before that will still be modest about nudity.


Why must you turn this forum into a den of lies? We all know you've never seen a girl naked.


It could have been his mom. Smiley: schooled
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#1162Almalieque, Posted: Nov 13 2011 at 2:29 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Another half of post... too much in one post..
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Prejudice is in the definition:

dis·crim·i·na·tion/disˌkriməˈnāSHən/

Noun:

1. The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

2. Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.

Also, lol @ "throwing around words in hopes of making a solid argument". Coincidentally, thats exactly what post #206 is!


You're such a tool. A predictable tool..

There is no need to be prejudiced in order to discriminate. We're talking strictly about discrimination. I can discriminate against someone's skin color and not prejudge them. So, there is no need to bring up "prejudice" as a criterion.

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Until something better than affirmative action comes along, I'm going to support it. I don't believe that Affirmative action is prejudicial, but the Klan probably disagrees with me. I couldn't care less.


Did you even read my post? affirmative action is a lazy fix me up that doesn't solve the problem. It's like school vouchers. It actually makes the situation worse. There's a ton of solutions that heavily outweigh affirmative action. One goes back to the question I asked Jophiel. Why do you think Tyler Perry is so successful?

It's cool that you think the best way to fight discrimination is with discrimination, but don't deny that it's still discrimination.

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Quite a bit, according to the definition.


Then you should reread the definition. It is not necessary and since we were not talking about prejudging anyone, then guess what? It isn't part of the conversation.

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If it's affirmative action, which is legal.
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Just because you don't support it, doesn't mean it is.



How can you tell? What's the difference? So, if it's legal, like how slavery was at one point, then you support it?

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Not hiring you because you're black is discrimination. Hiring you because you're black is not discrimination (Affirmative action). Not hiring you because you're a ******* idiot is not discrimination.


You do realize by hiring a less qualified person because s/he's black/white/hispanic/asian to fulfill a position, you're also denying a person because s/he is black/white/hispanic/asian? Surely you realize this? Affirmative action isn't that big of a deal when it comes to hiring as it is with promoting. Promoting is where the problems occur.

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Why must you turn this forum into a den of lies? We all know you've never seen a girl naked.


So, you do realize that not every woman is comfortable being naked in front of men and it's not because they think men are "icky".


#1164Almalieque, Posted: Nov 13 2011 at 3:11 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Look, if you don't have the balls to just admit that you misread my post, then so be it. I was too general at first, then I made a typo in the above the statement. In any case, I haven't made any additional changes since then and yet you had continued to argue against me. You even stated that subsets can't be quantified. You are wrong, just man up and admit to it. We all make mistakes. I was too general and I made a typo.. It's not a big deal.. If anyone is back peddling, it's you.
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Look, if you don't have the balls to just admit that you misread my post

The post that I never responded to and you weren't talking to me in and that doesn't in anyway affect you being wrong about the stuff I did respond to? Post #206 indeed.

Getting back to the post I did respond to:
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People continuously argue that it's religion that attacks homosexuality when something isn't supported. Then these same people turn around and claim that majority of the religious people support it?!?! Nope, pick one. Both can't occur.

And both can certainly occur. Religion can be attacking homosexuality at the same time the majority of religious individuals support homosexuality. You said they can't, but they can. It's that simple.

I don't even care about homosexuality here. I'm more offended by your inability to an imagine a scenario where this could be possible.
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I'm more offended by your inability to an imagine a scenario where this could be possible.
No need to imagine when your scenario is exactly how reality is, but our lowest common denominator over there doesn't exactly spend much time there.
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what the f-ck does this have to do with sexual modesty anyway? Are you obsessed with the idea that someone is looking at your junk Alma?
#1168 Nov 13 2011 at 10:15 PM Rating: Excellent
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what the f-ck does this have to do with sexual modesty anyway? Are you obsessed with the idea that someone is looking at your junk Alma?


Welcome to page 5. Smiley: lol
#1169 Nov 14 2011 at 3:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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You are truly ignorant. What's being argued is concept. Concepts are universal. You either support sexual modesty as an excuse for segregation or you don't. If you believe that there is a difference in situations, then you must state the difference. So far, you have failed to do that.


I believe that if you'd like to reinstate DADT due to sexual modesty, you're going to need to get the majority of the armed forces to overwhelmingly decide that they need separate facilities for ****** JUST LIKE you'd need the opposite to happen to desegregate by gender.

Good luck with that.

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You are full of crap because your counter is that "people are comfortable with homosexuals, so therefore it's no longer ok", but you already argued that there isn't any logical discrimination against sexuality. So which one is it? If another poll said that people were uncomfortable, would you accept that as an argument? If not, then why are you pretending that it matters?


If the polling went another way I may have accepted extending DADT, but it didn't, so I don't have too. "Comfort" mattered when the majority was opposed to DADT repeal, it matters much less so now. Unless your name is Alma.

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It doesn't matter if 100% of the people polled said that they are comfortable working with homosexuals, that has nothing to do with sexual modesty. You're only pretending that it does to support your argument. Unless you're denying the fact that women are separated due to sexual modesty, along with potential sexual harassment and sexual assault then you're wrong. Unless, you can provide other reasons on why they are segregated.


I believe I mentioned plumbing earlier. Segregation by gender & sexual orientation are two very different things, & not only because of modesty.

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Do you believe women are comfortable working with men? Does that have anything to do with where they sleep and shower? No. It doesn't. You're the one making false equivalences.


Quote where I made them equivalent.

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This is about concept, so unless you can argue against the concept, then you have nothing.


It'd help if you told me what concept you've now decided to argue for/against.

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There is no need to be prejudiced in order to discriminate. We're talking strictly about discrimination. I can discriminate against someone's skin color and not prejudge them. So, there is no need to bring up "prejudice" as a criterion.


You do not need to be prejudiced to choose between two or more things. You DO need to be prejudice to just plain old not hire blacks. If you have a logical reason to discriminate (Example: You must be this tall to use this ride): it's (usually) NOT prejudice. What this entire god damn thread amounts to is you running around screaming "it's not prejudice to discriminate due to sexual orientation" while giving zero reasons to justify said discrimination.

Which means you're a homophobe in denial. We all know this, we just want you to admit it & be done with it. Varrus can, so I can't understand why you can't except for cowardice.

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Did you even read my post? affirmative action is a lazy fix me up that doesn't solve the problem. It's like school vouchers. It actually makes the situation worse.


Tell that to anyone who's received a minority scholarship.
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There's a ton of solutions that heavily outweigh affirmative action. One goes back to the question I asked Jophiel. Why do you think Tyler Perry is so successful?

It's cool that you think the best way to fight discrimination is with discrimination, but don't deny that it's still discrimination.


If it makes you feel better, I'm for slavery reparations too. As I said previously, you aren't ever going to convince me that affirmative action is discrimination. Perhaps if you knew how to make a coherent argument, you'd have a better shot at it. But I have a better chance of being an astronaut that that happening.

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Then you should reread the definition. It is not necessary and since we were not talking about prejudging anyone, then guess what? It isn't part of the conversation.


Remove prejudice from the definition of discrimination & it literally becomes a synonym for "choose" & "distinguish", which is "Alma's" definition of discrimination, which is not the definition ANYONE else in this thread is using besides Alma.

So have fun arguing with yourself I guess.

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How can you tell? What's the difference? So, if it's legal, like how slavery was at one point, then you support it?


It's certainly more socially acceptable if it's legal. Doesn't mean I have to like or support it, but it means I'm not a complete tool for doing so. You wouldn't come off as a homophobe if you had a logical reason to discriminate against homosexuals, but ya don't, so you do in this and every SSM thread on this forum, ever.

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You do realize by hiring a less qualified person because s/he's black/white/hispanic/asian to fulfill a position, you're also denying a person because s/he is black/white/hispanic/asian? Surely you realize this?


And you do realize it's only discriminatory if prejudice is involved, right?

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So, you do realize that not every woman is comfortable being naked in front of men and it's not because they think men are "icky".


It's also because they're self conscious & embarrassed. Kind of like how you'd feel in a communal shower with any other man, whether they were gay or not.



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You know, when I was in high school I played sports. I knew for a fact that some of my team mates were lesbian. I never understood why that should be a problem.

My mother went to nursing school half a century ago, and lived in the dorm with lesbians then, and didn't have a problem with them.

Is it just (some) straight men who are so freaked out by the idea of gay men seeing them naked?

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Is it just (some) straight men who are so freaked out by the idea of gay men seeing them naked?
Pretty much. They're usually the ones that women barely look at, but they're just SO CERTAIN that gay men will just stare at them endlessly without DADT. At no point does it make sense.
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Is it just (some) straight men who are so freaked out by the idea of gay men seeing them naked?
I don't think it can even be explained that "rationally" as they're already having gay men seeing them naked.
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#1173Almalieque, Posted: Nov 14 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) You responded to a post that wasn't directed to you. How is that any different from the other following post on the same subject not directed at you?
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Look, if you don't have the balls to just admit that you misread my post

The post that I never responded to and you weren't talking to me in and that doesn't in anyway affect you being wrong about the stuff I did respond to? Post #206 indeed.

Getting back to the post I did respond to:
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People continuously argue that it's religion that attacks homosexuality when something isn't supported. Then these same people turn around and claim that majority of the religious people support it?!?! Nope, pick one. Both can't occur.

And both can certainly occur. Religion can be attacking homosexuality at the same time the majority of religious individuals support homosexuality. You said they can't, but they can. It's that simple.

I don't even care about homosexuality here. I'm more offended by your inability to an imagine a scenario where this could be possible.


You responded to a post that wasn't directed to you. How is that any different from the other following post on the same subject not directed at you?

Look, if you don't have the balls to just admit that you misread my post, then so be it. I was too general at first, then I made a typo in the following statement. In any case, I haven't made any additional changes since then and yet you had continued to argue against me. You even stated that subsets can't be quantified. You are wrong, just man up and admit to it. We all make mistakes. I was too general and I made a typo.. It's not a big deal.. If anyone is back peddling, it's you.


Are you still arguing 'for' the continuance of DADT?

It's gone Alma. Smiley: frown
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I believe that if you'd like to reinstate DADT due to sexual modesty, you're going to need to get the majority of the armed forces to overwhelmingly decide that they need separate facilities for ****** JUST LIKE you'd need the opposite to happen to desegregate by gender.

Good luck with that.


Way to avoid the point. You either support a concept or you don't. It's universal. If you believe that there is an exception to your concept, then you state it.

Neither of us have the power to make any changes or create any nationwide polls. That doesn't have any effect on the consistency of your beliefs.

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If the polling went another way I may have accepted extending DADT, but it didn't, so I don't have too. "Comfort" mattered when the majority was opposed to DADT repeal, it matters much less so now. Unless your name is Alma.


So, that means that you DO BELIEVE that there exist a scenario to logically discriminate against sexuality? Or, is your opinion whatever others believe?

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I believe I mentioned plumbing earlier. Segregation by gender & sexual orientation are two very different things, & not only because of modesty.


You had mentioned it, but you never expounded on it. How is it that "plumbing" doesn't matter in the office, but it magically does in the shower and in the living areas? Are you suggesting that there is a difference between working with someone and living with someone?

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Quote where I made them equivalent.


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Sure I can, provided the polls show more people being comfortable with homosexuals in the military now as opposed to a minority being comfortable when DADT was implemented. If you want to apply that to gender too, then you gots to get the womans to poll that the majority of them would be comfortable with co-ed facilities.


This entire debate has been over DADT and your only counter has been polls of people being comfortable with homosexuals in the military. You made the comparison that "being comfortable with homosexuals in the military" is the same as "supporting DADT". Which by concept, is the same as "being comfortable with women in the military" equaling "men and women sharing quarters".

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You do not need to be prejudiced to choose between two or more things. You DO need to be prejudice to just plain old not hire blacks.


False. You should look up the word prejudice. Prejudice is all about PREJUDGING.. Not hiring someone because of their skin color does not automatically denote prejudged thoughts. That's why casting is a great example. Do you think all white or all black casts are coincidences? No. People were discriminated, no one of certain races were hired, but that doesn't mean that there were any prejudicial thoughts against one or another.

I didn't hire you because I wanted an Asian man, but I have no prejudging thoughts towards you or your race.

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If you have a logical reason to discriminate (Example: You must be this tall to use this ride): it's (usually) NOT prejudice.


That's never prejudice.. As I said, you're just throwing around terminology without understanding it's meaning.

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What this entire god damn thread amounts to is you running around screaming "it's not prejudice to discriminate due to sexual orientation" while giving zero reasons to justify said discrimination.

Which means you're a homophobe in denial. We all know this, we just want you to admit it & be done with it. Varrus can, so I can't understand why you can't except for cowardice.


Post 206. If you choose not to address it, then that's your problem.



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