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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:53 pm 
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DFK! wrote:
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Being a racist shitlord is.


Hmm, what if it isn't? What if it's a genetic predisposition?


I could ask you the same thing about religion.


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Xequecal wrote:
DFK! wrote:
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Being a racist shitlord is.


Hmm, what if it isn't? What if it's a genetic predisposition?


I could ask you the same thing about religion.


Religion is already a protected class. Good try though.

Wait... no, it's a shitty try.

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That was the point. Your post carried the implication that if being gay is a choice, then there's no reason to ban discriminating against them. By the same logic, discriminating against someone for their religion should also be ok.


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There are actually good arguments that support proclivities to be religious and proclivities to demonize people based on superficial differences as both being genetic predispositions that were selected for in our evolution.

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Xequecal wrote:
That was the point. Your post carried the implication that if being gay is a choice, then there's no reason to ban discriminating against them. By the same logic, discriminating against someone for their religion should also be ok.


No such implication is there because I didn't include the sentence about gayness at all.

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Xequecal wrote:
That was the point. Your post carried the implication that if being gay is a choice, then there's no reason to ban discriminating against them. By the same logic, discriminating against someone for their religion should also be ok.


A very good point, and thus it really doesn't matter if gay is a choice or not. However, religion, while a choice, is specifically protected in the constitution. The choice to be gay is not. So that's a problem.


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