Discrimination is all around us, every single day. Some forms of discrimination are actually so common they have their own names! Like racism for discrimination by race, or sexism for discrimination by gender or sex. Then there is of course discrimination based on sexual orientation, or even a disability or age.
What gives you the right to decide how good a person someone is based on something they didn’t and can’t even choose? A person can’t choose what color his skin is, what sex they are, or what their sexual orientation is. And I doubt someone with a disability enjoys it too much either! Also, if you haven’t invented a time-machine, I doubt a person’s age is their own choice either.
Now excuse the little side-trip, but I must take one since I know some of you still think that one’s sexual orientation is a conscious choice. It’s not. Let’s think about this for a second. Why would anyone choose to be in one of the most hated groups in the world? To piss people off? I doubt that… Then again, if it’s really a conscious choice, anyone should be able to make it, right? Ok, feel attracted to members of the same sex for 10 minutes. That’s all I’m asking, 10 minutes… Can’t do it, eh? (and if you can, I must inform you that you are actually homo- or bisexual)
Now back to the topic at hand, discrimination. Isn’t it funny how even though the constitution prohibits discrimination by age, whenever I go to a liquor store they discriminate me based solely on my age? And because teens can’t get alcohol the legal way, they get someone over 18 years old to get it for them. If a teen wants alcohol, he will get it, no matter what you do. Banning certain substances from young people is just the decision-makers stroking themselves off, it doesn’t really solve anything.
Well what is it then that causes all this discrimination? Fear. People are afraid of things that are different, things that they are unfamiliar with. When a human can’t explain something, they say it’s by God, they find a way to go around the fact that they, in fact, don’t know shit. When a human can’t understand something, they label it weird, abnormal, freaky. A human is really uncomfortable with the fact that the human understanding is actually very limited. A human is afraid.
But! What’s possibly even more annoying than senseless discrimination, is people who whine about it too much and too easily. I used to be one of the whiners too. Being in the furry fandom I sometimes have to cope with lots of stupid bullshit. I used to get all riled up and start ranting and raving if the fandom was portrayed stereotypically in the media, but nowadays I just laugh my butt off with the rest of the people. No need to say I prefer my current attitude over the bitching any day, it’s more fun to have fun.
If someone says nigger a black person gets angry, if someone says fag a gay person gets angry, I say chill out already! It’s not the word that matters, it’s the context.
