No one today says a child molester can be reformed. A generation ago every expert said they could.
There is a lesson here. Everybody but us is required to say that they can look at a black guy with a white girl and not even notice. If one can really convince oneself of that, one can also convince oneself that NAMBLA is right, and that men having sex with boys is so Ok it is not noticeable.
If you can REALLY do these things, just ONCE, is there ever any coming back?
We accept recovering alcoholics, but only if they are absolutely, unreservedly aware, every day of the week, that there is something WRONG with them. That is the ONLY route to recovery, and there is no guarantee of that one.
The same inhumanly difficulty exists in the case of those who are ever truly unoffended by the couple which will produce ugly mixes.
We all know that Tiger Woods would have nothing to do with a girl who looked like the daughter he and his beautiful Swedish bride will produce. We all know that OJ would have nothing to do with a girl who looked like the daughter he and his blond wife produced.
But one is REQUIRED not to notice this.
Once you go there, for ANY reason, you are in a whole new category.
Decency IS prejudice. .
Citizenship IS prejudice.
All loyalty, every “family value,” IS prejudice
An unprejudiced person is a psychopath.
A society that truly has zero tolerance for “racism” — the town motto of Waterton, Mass –or any other prejudice gets sicker and sicker in every way.
Anyone who can TRULY talk himself out of a normal prejudice once can NEVER be trusted
#1 by hpfeffer on 10/23/2007 - 3:57 pm
I have a different view of what you have just said, Mr. Whitaker, which is probably the same thing. When I was a lad…..a good many years ago….there was such a concept as a discriminating man. This man was considered to be a gentleman. I like the word discrimination. It only makes sense. How foolish it would be to not discriminate. It is beyond foolish. Is prejudice and discrimination the same thing? I think so. I will continue to discriminate as I have done all my life. This means that I am prejudiced for this and against that. That makes sense to me. It’s the only thing that makes sense to me. The young people of today say, “don’t judge!” What perfect nonsense!
Henry
#2 by mderpelding on 10/24/2007 - 12:10 am
Sorry to quibble, but I have a hard time understanding Marxist terms such as “prejudice”.
Beautiful quote, though…
Decency IS prejudice. .
Citizenship IS prejudice.
All loyalty, every “family value,” IS prejudice
An unprejudiced person is a psychopath.
What you should have said is….
Decency requires discrimination.
Citizenship IS discriminatory.
All loyalty, every “family value” discriminates.
Psychopaths are indiscriminate.