I don't see how that's connected. Honestly. I just see a guy throwing his toys out the pram because somebody is being explicitly discriminatory.
It's ridiculous because real, damaging discrimination is rarely explicit, almost never public, and almost always far more significant than being excluded from a mentorship program.
Well, it really just shows a pernicious, probably purposeful misunderstanding of discrimination.
Some discrimination is good. Children shouldn't be able to drive cars. Blind people shouldn't be allowed to fly planes. Adults are not allowed to compete in junior boxing leagues.
Most people know this. Most people can also distinguish between this, and the systematic violence, physical and social, that society conducts against marginalized groups.
Racists often pretend to think that racial discrimination is akin to the normal kind of discrimination, for two reasons. First, it's so they can imply that racial discrimination is kind of small beer. Second, it's so they can use normal forms of discrimination as dogwhistles.
I don't know if the poster is a racist. He's probably just an idiot. I think a lot of people who are ordinarily intelligent get attached to formal definitions that are deceptive.
Got it. So the good discrimination, we call those laws, and they’re decided by people who have extensive training on how to critially consider things with due process and being able to appeal.
But being a judge and having due process sounds like work. Guess I’ll write a CoC instead! /s
It's ridiculous because real, damaging discrimination is rarely explicit, almost never public, and almost always far more significant than being excluded from a mentorship program.