01-20-2014, 12:00 AM
Julio Juliopolis wrote:Bigotry - The belief that one group of people, on the merits of their birth alone, has entitlements from the outside group which in turn has obligations to the first. For example a racially bigotted person might believe that whites are entitled to own slaves, and blacks are obligated to perform as slaves for white people. Note that hatred is not a requirement for bigotry, merely indifference. People didn't make their slaves work because they hated them, they did it because they felt entitled to do so. When angered with a slave, a bigot needed to do something else in addition to making them perform as slaves in order to feel satisfied. Indifference is far more dangerous than hate. Hell hath no fury like someone who already feels entitled to mistreat you scorned.
Promoting bigotry - The promotion of bigotry can take many forms. However behind all of them is the idealization of and/or justification of the entitlements for entitled grou; or the dehumanization of and/or justification of obligations of the obligated one.
This thread - This thread promotes bigotry by idealizing women and treating them as all entitled to our appreciation, (while ignoring all men who in any way are deserving of such). Like most bigotry when examined from a logical point of view it is absolute nonsense, as appreciation should be given on the basis of people actually doing things for us and others; not by virtue of having performed the wonderous accomplishment of being born with a vagina. Of course pointing out specific things we should be thankful to people, (of any type), for doing is not the point of this thread. Closing our eyes, breathing deeply, imagining idealized women, and then pretending that is reality is the real point of it.Would it even things out to make a male appreciation thread? This was not meant to cause anyone offense or to be indifferent. I am sorry it bothered you, and your point of view is valid of course.
Promoting bigotry - The promotion of bigotry can take many forms. However behind all of them is the idealization of and/or justification of the entitlements for entitled grou; or the dehumanization of and/or justification of obligations of the obligated one.
This thread - This thread promotes bigotry by idealizing women and treating them as all entitled to our appreciation, (while ignoring all men who in any way are deserving of such). Like most bigotry when examined from a logical point of view it is absolute nonsense, as appreciation should be given on the basis of people actually doing things for us and others; not by virtue of having performed the wonderous accomplishment of being born with a vagina. Of course pointing out specific things we should be thankful to people, (of any type), for doing is not the point of this thread. Closing our eyes, breathing deeply, imagining idealized women, and then pretending that is reality is the real point of it.Would it even things out to make a male appreciation thread? This was not meant to cause anyone offense or to be indifferent. I am sorry it bothered you, and your point of view is valid of course.