Re: Reply to Hardmod and uncut-diamond:emilystarr1March 27 2004, 14:02:56 UTC
i for the most part agree, especially with the questioning of the term "whoring," which i find really disrespectful to sex workers.
Actually, in my context, it is nothing against sex workers. I used it in the context of basically using beings against their own will - which I personally feel the sex industry does. It's the last ditch way for a lot of people to get the money they need to survive. I hate that there is a market for the sex industry - but sex workers themselves I have nothing against and meant absolutely no disrespect to. They're caught in a vicious cycle in vicious societies.
also, assuming the seal hunt was only tradition (i know it's not), why does that make it less important? this comes up quite often in questions surrounding aboriginal rights, where (white) people claim that such things should be entirely eliminated without any regard for the cultures of people who have already had to deal with racist, assiminationist etc. policies.
Well, firstly, I wasn't just talking about Aboriginal tradition. All the sealers and sealing industry. And, yes, if something is wrong I will scream it to the mountains that it is wrong regardless of culture. I am not racist, nor do I want to annihilate Aboriginal culture - quite the opposite. But part of the culture - the seal hunt - that I want stopped. But I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. =)
Actually, in my context, it is nothing against sex workers. I used it in the context of basically using beings against their own will - which I personally feel the sex industry does. It's the last ditch way for a lot of people to get the money they need to survive. I hate that there is a market for the sex industry - but sex workers themselves I have nothing against and meant absolutely no disrespect to. They're caught in a vicious cycle in vicious societies.
also, assuming the seal hunt was only tradition (i know it's not), why does that make it less important? this comes up quite often in questions surrounding aboriginal rights, where (white) people claim that such things should be entirely eliminated without any regard for the cultures of people who have already had to deal with racist, assiminationist etc. policies.
Well, firstly, I wasn't just talking about Aboriginal tradition. All the sealers and sealing industry. And, yes, if something is wrong I will scream it to the mountains that it is wrong regardless of culture. I am not racist, nor do I want to annihilate Aboriginal culture - quite the opposite. But part of the culture - the seal hunt - that I want stopped. But I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. =)
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