If everyone is so interested in diversity, then why is everyone trying to make us all the same?
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What is your opinion?
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but we will always have cultural norms (even if they might change over time)
It great to have different views on things but people should learn not be a*holes when expressing them.
and people should learn to get a thicker skin sometimes.
The new morality is a form of insanity.
I believe what the Bible says.
Why should we be the same?
I have my principles, but I'm for individualism all the way. That's what makes America so cool to live in.
Political correctness is awful.
my opinion is..you cannot please everyone! accept the fact!
This is going to sound terribly lame, but it's the truth. If you mouth the words of the mantra that the fat-cats prescribe, it doesn't really matter because that's ALL IT IS TO THE MASSES ANYWAY - a mantra.
The average Joe doesn't have the ambition or intelligence to analyze it. He follows the croud. He mouths the words. Then he goes about his business like he never heard of it, and doesn't even make a connection that one conflicts with the other.
It's like the Lord's Prayer. As if someone really lives different just because they recite something or mouth words.
If we all came from Adam & Eve, then we are all already related. If we all evolved from primitive organisms, then we are all related. Either way it goes, we are all connected and we can't change that.
Throughout time, we humans spreadout and became different from each other. As the populaton grows and technology advances, we all get closer together again. We need to be interested in diversity because our human nature makes us afraid of things that are different.
We have to be strong and fight our instinct to be afraid each other; because deep down whether you think that we all have souls or that we all share DNA, we are all brothers and sisters.
Mike H.
No one is attempting to force everyone to be the same, far from it. There is a huge difference in trying to force others to be the same and allowing intentionally hostile and hurtful actions to go unchallenged.
Take the issue of same-sex marriage: if you find it offensive, there is not one law out there that is being proposed that would force you to marry someone of the same sex. Should your belief that it is offensive be the basis for denying ME the right to do it should I so choose? NO. That is forcing everyone to abide by YOUR way of thinking, in other words it is doing the exact thing that you are complaining about.
Perhaps learning to accept the fact that you have the right to NOT do something but it should not infringe upon the right of others to partake of that activity that you do not like would be something you should look into.
I think the point is "supposed" to be that we should acknowledge and respect diversity, and that society should not tolerate discrimination against any group or individual just for being different. I don't agree with outlawing free or even hate speech; those that exercise it only reveal themselves as small-minded idiots, and I'd rather know where I stand with them and be alerted in advance to the possibility of slander or discrimination. In the U.S. at least, such speech is permitted by law, short of inciting a riot. But free speech must be a two-way street; if you say something that offends, I absolutely have the right to criticize your beliefs.
How private companies, radio stations, newspapers, and even elected governments deal with sexist, racist, or hate speech among their employees, on company time, using company resources, or in public if they're a known personality, can and should be permitted to be regulated by them; otherwise, they risk creating a hostile and unproductive workplace. Employees agree to abide by such policies when they choose to accept employment.
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