Comment by zug_zug
5 days ago
Spending too much time in the richest, most tolerant counties in the country can make you forget that we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage.
Yes it's a teeny tiny little bit of a shame that a college president had to step down for raising a fair academic question. It is not half as important as when a cop shoots a black person dead for dating with a white girl.
Don’t criticize obviously bad things because there are things that are even worse.
We're all here because the author is criticizing opinionated people for loudly disliking obviously bad things.
Rock meet glass house.
I'm sure you did that on purpose. I'm sure I'm the silly one here.
> we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage
1. Who cares? Those colleges are private entities and presumably this admissions discrimination means they cannot receive Federalor state funds. If admitting gay students goes against their religious beliefs, then the rest of us benefit from having the people they reject.
2. It is not up to us to tell other families who they can and can't marry, or what they can or can't think. Let the bigots be bigots in their bigoted bubble, as long as they don't hurt anyone outside it. (If their children wish to leave the bubble, we should protect and support them privately.)
3. A cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl is homicide, independent of anyone's beliefs.
>Who cares?
I believe it’s in everybody’s best interest to stand up against discrimination.
I don’t give a fuck if Bob Jones University rejects homosexuals and neither should anyone.
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Right, but the problem is that consequences for a cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl don't seem to be the same as the consequences for homicide.
Can you cite a case where this happened and the consequences were unreasonably light?
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