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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
"is it such a bad thing to be a little bit sexist/racist/blahist"

It all goes back to the fact that "discrimination" means "choice" when you get to that level. In some ways the issue is more that people are unthinking, than that people have preferences, in my opinion.

There needs to be a distinction drawn between striving for a society in which individuals will actually believe that all people are fundamentally equal*, and striving for a society in which all individuals willingly submit to a law that treats everyone as equally worthy, and carefully avoid abusing status, circumstance to undermine that equality.

* Equality of opportunity? Equality of outcome? Nah. Something more like "equal in value and dignity, and equally worthy of the trust of the citizenry" to my mind.

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