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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Political discrimination

So Doctor Jack Cassell placed a sign on his door stating he wants Obama supporters to seek a Urologist somewhere else.

There are several types of political discrimination. In this skeptic age people are becoming more and more louder about their political views.

Obama's election brought out people's true colors, and continues to do so. People are finding that they can't be friends with those who are politically different from them, while others have found that they only could if they refrain from talking about politics.

While we have laws in place prohibiting gender, racial, and religious discrimination, that doesn't mean these laws are being implemented. Is it realistically possible to prohibit political discrimination?

For starters, should people be so vocal about their political views that it creates problems such as what Cassell is doing?

I mean, unlike gender and race, you have control over your views. Should people attack you for them? No. But no one would know your views unless you made them known (although if you are black people basically assume you are a Democrat).

The problem is, what is the fine line of political discrimination and then morally being against someone's views?

For example, would you want to hire a man who you know is part of the KKK? Knowing full well they would be in contact with minorities? Those minorities could be in harm. Some would argue it would be political discrimination to hire a KKK member, others realize it would be morally wrong to hire someone who will more than likely cause trouble.

But if the only political views known is if one is a Republican or a Democrat and you didn't hire someone because they are a Democrat then that is political discrimination.

But laws are known to be vague. Just look at the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the 14th Amendment, they were made so vague that whites have been misusing these laws and taking them away from what they were originally for. Whites have basically used them for white supremacy causes and increasing racism.

So if one were to fight for political discrimination to be illegal, it would be dangerous to not specify because a vague ruling that its wrong to discriminate on the basis of one's political beliefs is just welcoming in the white supremacist and extreme right wing crazies.

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