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My Solution to Prejudice:
Here's a thought...Why don't we take every baby that's born and randomly assign it to be raised by a family that is not it's own, with absolutely no regard for what race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, etc. the adopting family is? Oh, all of a sudden the majority of the students at Ceasar Chavez are white! And I'm sure I saw a black kid and a jewish boy riding their bikes down the street in Guadalupe! Oh, and there were a pair of hispanics walking their poodles in Paradise Valley yesterday! Oh, that boy WOULD have been raised in a conservative catholic family, but instead he's being raised by two dads in Frisco! Now that everyone, regardless of their looks, was raised in a diverse background!! Oh no, what ever shall we do? Now we can't judge people based on how they look anymore, we might actually have to get more information on people before we condem them for being different from us!
For those of you who weren't awake in that part of English class, I was doing a parody of Jonathan Swift who suggested (jokingly, and to make a point) that the solution to poverty would be to take all the babies born into poor families and feed them to the rich.
Simply put, I'm very tired. I'm tired of black people calling each other the 'N' word, I'm tired of women being payed less than men for absolutely no good reason, I'm tired of the word "gay" being a synonym for "stupid". I'm tired of an education system that rewards people who live in upper class families, completely regardless of how intellegent, hard working, yada-yada they might actually be. I'm tired of having to have programs liek affirmitive action to give minorities a foot in the door because employers and school admissions boards check to see what color the shoe is before they bother to check if it's the best shoe for the job. I don't want to hear it anymore. People say it's not a race thing, it's a culture thing. There may be a certain amount of truth to this, but that just shows prejudice against people who are different, which is the same stupid thing. There's really nothing I can personally do about it except to gauruntee that I personally won't take superficial matters into consideration when forming an opinion about another person. If you're a good person, I will judge as such regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. If you're a bad person, I won't like you so much, but I'll still treat you with a certain amount of respect that everyone is due. And if I ever have kids I'll raise them as I was raised. Never to treat anybody better or worse because they look a certain way, or talk a certain. And, in fact, not to even take notice of such ridiculous things in the first place.
Here's a thought...Why don't we take every baby that's born and randomly assign it to be raised by a family that is not it's own, with absolutely no regard for what race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, etc. the adopting family is? Oh, all of a sudden the majority of the students at Ceasar Chavez are white! And I'm sure I saw a black kid and a jewish boy riding their bikes down the street in Guadalupe! Oh, and there were a pair of hispanics walking their poodles in Paradise Valley yesterday! Oh, that boy WOULD have been raised in a conservative catholic family, but instead he's being raised by two dads in Frisco! Now that everyone, regardless of their looks, was raised in a diverse background!! Oh no, what ever shall we do? Now we can't judge people based on how they look anymore, we might actually have to get more information on people before we condem them for being different from us!
For those of you who weren't awake in that part of English class, I was doing a parody of Jonathan Swift who suggested (jokingly, and to make a point) that the solution to poverty would be to take all the babies born into poor families and feed them to the rich.
Simply put, I'm very tired. I'm tired of black people calling each other the 'N' word, I'm tired of women being payed less than men for absolutely no good reason, I'm tired of the word "gay" being a synonym for "stupid". I'm tired of an education system that rewards people who live in upper class families, completely regardless of how intellegent, hard working, yada-yada they might actually be. I'm tired of having to have programs liek affirmitive action to give minorities a foot in the door because employers and school admissions boards check to see what color the shoe is before they bother to check if it's the best shoe for the job. I don't want to hear it anymore. People say it's not a race thing, it's a culture thing. There may be a certain amount of truth to this, but that just shows prejudice against people who are different, which is the same stupid thing. There's really nothing I can personally do about it except to gauruntee that I personally won't take superficial matters into consideration when forming an opinion about another person. If you're a good person, I will judge as such regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. If you're a bad person, I won't like you so much, but I'll still treat you with a certain amount of respect that everyone is due. And if I ever have kids I'll raise them as I was raised. Never to treat anybody better or worse because they look a certain way, or talk a certain. And, in fact, not to even take notice of such ridiculous things in the first place.