(aka the anti-discrimination farce)
the anti-discrimination act came into being as legal direction for people who don’t know how to treat other people ... people who would knowingly discriminate against others unless it were actually illegal.
the mindsets of such people are not difficult to imagine ... this world is full of so-called superior beings who would happily take any “advantage” they had over someone they consider “inferior” ...“inferior” being based entirely on grounds that most decent people would now call “discriminatory”, of course.
removing what “supremacists” consider to be their natural “advantages” via legislating against discrimination may bring about a turn in behaviour, but it’s like waving a red flag at a bull in terms of reinforcing their bad attitudes. this form of “special treatment” for “minority” groups removed any legal ways these closed minded people had to exercise (exorcise ?) their hatred ...
... and we can make discrimination illegal, but we can’t legislate against hate.
making it a crime to behave in a discriminatory manner was a real win for public life. i do not deny this. but it came at the price of forcing hate underground, along with the festering resentments it carries. eventually, the dissonant hum becomes loud enough and the hate takes a public voice in the form of a hate group, anti-something-protest or other such motivated posse.
some people just do not want it to be illegal to voice their stupid opinions. as sickening as it is, there are still people in this world that think being white makes you worth more as a human, or that being rich gives you special rights within the law, or that "poor" people don’t deserve good healthcare.
there is so much hate in this world, and so many bigots filled with impotent rage, it’s little wonder we had to tell people how they have to behave towards each other. i just wish somebody told them why we have to behave that way ...
... not why we should. but why we have to.
there is no legislation that can make people accept each other, but by effectively creating the very segregation it was brought into existence to prevent, the anti-discrimination act has become a sad parody of itself. i realise i live in la-la land, but hello, powers-that-be ... would it be so hard to at least try and change the way people think and feel instead of just the way they have to behave ?.
nothing will ever change as long as we’re all taught to view each other as an unending cluster of “minorities” to be viewed and treated under certain conditions. maybe if we had more people that understood each others' differences, there would be much less of a need for any "anti-discrimination act" to tell us what we should already know.
the anti-discrimination act needs to be renamed as “the basic rules of human behaviour”. because that’s all it really contains. so, we shouldn’t even need it, but, since we apparently do, will i put in a request for a law against hating something you don’t understand ?.
woops. of course not. silly me. we all know what would happen then, right ?