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Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? [message #58073]

Sun, 26 July 2009 22:12

timmy

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I don't mean "we here" I mean the global "we".

I believe most strongly in Human Rights. I believe in the equality of all races, and in that equality I recognise that there are differences based upon tradition, or on upbringing, or on need.

I would not, for example, chose even an experienced white Australian over an experienced Aborignal if I needed a guide in the Australian Outback. I trust the person who has had to learn the bush and bushcraft out of need and tradition over any white fella. And that is true and practical prejudice.

So equality is also unequal. There will be other examples, I simply picked the most striking one that I could find.

Why don't we value folk for their skills and competences instead of seeking to level the human race for some political ethic? Isn't this a gross overcompensation?

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: timmy on Sun, 26 July 2009 22:12
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: Macky on Mon, 27 July 2009 00:59
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: timmy on Mon, 27 July 2009 07:27
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: Macky on Mon, 27 July 2009 15:20
		Australian aboriginals By: saben on Wed, 29 July 2009 01:19
		Re: Australian aboriginals By: timmy on Wed, 29 July 2009 20:10
		Re: Australian aboriginals By: saben on Thu, 30 July 2009 18:23
		Re: Australian aboriginals By: timmy on Thu, 30 July 2009 19:34
		Re: Australian aboriginals By: saben on Fri, 31 July 2009 18:19
		Re: Australian aboriginals By: timmy on Fri, 31 July 2009 19:28
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: tBP on Tue, 28 July 2009 20:09
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: acam on Tue, 28 July 2009 21:01
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: saben on Wed, 29 July 2009 01:31
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: johnleeb on Thu, 30 July 2009 01:02
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: saben on Thu, 30 July 2009 18:19
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: tBP on Sun, 02 August 2009 10:39
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: acam on Sun, 02 August 2009 15:51
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: tBP on Mon, 03 August 2009 09:47
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: acam on Mon, 03 August 2009 12:13
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: Nigel on Sun, 02 August 2009 21:50
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: Fingolfin on Mon, 03 August 2009 06:55
		Re: Racial prejudice - do we overcompensate? By: saben on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:57

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