I, for one, only judge individually.

I posted this because I want to hear your reasoning. Please try to be respectful, and I know that is a lot to ask, but still. I am hoping all of you are mature enough to at least be respectful.

Nop God says to "love one another" so i do

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By discriminatory do you mean selective membership? That would be pretty difficult since there is no real way of verifying membership. Other than that I’m not sure what you mean by discriminatory. There is not a website on the world wide web that a person can’t visit. Now there is the intranet. That is mostly used as a business tool of communication over great distances.

some people have actually hurt my feelings tremendously based on the color of my skin. I remember last year at school i liked this one girl who is black and one of her friends knew it so she told her. And her response to her "I dont know why your telling me that, you know i dont like white boys". I began to hate myself because of the color of my "white" skin.

dont hate yourself. some people are just insucure and dont know how to act around others that are different from themselves.

Yesterdays headlines – "4th Largest City Elects Openly Gay Mayor"

It doesn’t matter. The media tries to make it matter because they want to stir up controversy and dissent.

Whereas one is determined purely by genetics and the other having both biological and environmental influences, people can’t seem to accept others for who they are. Homosexuality is not a sin, and any God who declares it so (not naming anybody) is a bigot, not worthy of worship. Just as it does not make one better, or more righteous, for being white, it does not make one better for being heterosexual.

If you think otherwise, please explain rationally why you disagree.

Saying homosexuals cannot reproduce (which is false) is a lame argument, and does not give you the right to discriminate. Any other reasons for your intolerance?
Alfalfa, homosexuals reproduce all the time, because society tries to force them into a relationship with the opposite sex. Don’t you ever see men "coming out of the closet" on TV, after marrying a woman and having kids?
Imasis, homosexuality isn’t a part of nature? Clearly you are making that up; it is seen in all animals.

I’d say that discrimination based on race is worse, because we have been through the whole slavery, civil-rights thing already. If we’ve learned nothing from it, we, as a nation, do not deserve to stand on the face of the Earth any longer. As for discrimination based on sexual orientation; that is far more insidious, and disgustingly supported by our culture. The only reason why it isn’t as bad as racial discrimination is that one can easily hide their orientation, and even have the possibility of changing it (in either direction).But, since they are forced to do either of those two in order to avoid hatred, they are arguably in the worse of the two positions.

Seriously though:

1) Who cares if someone is black or Mexican?
2) If they are Mexican, who cares if they don’t speak English? They have just as much right to be here as anyone else!
3) Who cares if someone is gay or lesbian? Who are we to question their happiness?

Why are people so hateful?

Why is this country still vexed with such medieval problems?

(but I must admit that I am a hypocrite in asking this question because I have my hate too… I hate bad drivers!!!)

It has been my life’s experience that there are many reasons for one to "hate" others for reasons they have no control over. I think the two main reasons are jealousy and low self esteem.

They are so jealous of people who are living happy successful lives the way they see fit. Doing things and accomplishing things in their lives that the "haters" only dream of. They have such low self esteem that they must make a list of those they are sure, are "lower class" or inferior than they are. They don’t realize that in this country, we are ALL equal. No better and no worse. They just can’t stand that about the USA. I find this particularly true (but not exclusive to) the southern states, and that I cannot figure out why.

It is a shame because it is an awful waste of time and energy, instead of figuring out how they can better their own lives/self esteem, they try to belittle other people for reasons they cannot change.

I’ve heard a lot of black men and also that latin men are more romantic but i haven’t heard a lot of white men.

Please give me some serious answers.
ITS FOR A SOCIOLOGY CLASS STATISTICS IN COLLEGE.
SERIOUSLY I NEED MORE EXAMPLES. PLEASE

I heard white men really know how to eat good p u s s y. U can write that on ur homework if you want.

What difference does difference make?

I need a little help with this… I am supposed to answer this question using the following terms:
1. aversive racism
2. hegemonic ideology
3. natural law language
4. social darwinism
5. social institution
6. stereotype.

I’m embarrasses to say I only understand one of those words (stereotype). Help?

1. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aversive+racism

2.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hegemonic

3. http://www.answers.com/topic/natural-law

4. http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/eh4.shtml

5. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-institutions/

6 youve already got it – good

nb dont try to use every variable on every concept – it will be to big an undertaking – choose the most relevant eg ‘race’ and ’social darwinism’

*edit* I may have worded this question all screwy, so if you do not understand – I apologize (too much coffee)*
do you think that it is even possible for them to unconditionally love their own children? If they can hate so easily without logic, could they not stop their love for an illogical reason?

Thanks
*even if their children which would fall under the "us" category suddenly jumped ship and joined "them"?

Interesting question! If you can humor me, I believe I can give you an explanation…

I think what you’re missing here is that everyone has their own ‘logic’. If you’ve studied logic in any detail, you soon realize that your logical conclusions follow from assumptions (first principals). Ideally, the person refines their understanding of the world until all of their assumptions are impossible or impractical to fact-check. For example, you and I probably agree that the sky is generally blue and that there’s a scientific reason for the sky being blue (or gray, or whatever color it takes on). Yeah, there are scientists who could tell you in great detail what makes the sky a certain color under certain circumstances, but we frame our world on the basics: the sky is generally blue, and there is a scientific reason for it being the color it is at any given time.

Now, you and I probably agree that minorities aren’t any less human than whites. If someone has been raised being shown all the violent crimes committed by minorities, underlining their difference from supposedly pure whites, their first assumption would be different than ours. Therefore, their reaction to non-whites would be skewed and could even go to hatred. Their logic isn’t ‘wrong’ if you assume that non-whites are more violent, are born that way, contribute to the degeneration of society, etc.

With that in mind, no they won’t stop loving their children. Their gut feelings about their children are probably not that much different than ours are because much of that is instinctive. There are some exceptions when an ideology demands that you give up on your children if they disagree with your beliefs, but that still goes back to first principals.

It is the natural state of human beings to see and organize our patterns, but we also rank and place value on those differences, hating what is different from and thus unsafe for us and liking what we know and makes us feel safe. If we then take action on those values against those who are different from us, like when we discriminate against people in the workplace for being different, then we have crossed the line. But it is perfectly human to see and hate differences. However, it is a challenge to us as human beings to overcome those feelings by not seeing everyone as the same because we’re not, but to see people as individuals with the same rights and feelings as those of us that are similar or favorable.