Ever person who has a strong desire or need to discriminate against some class or category of persons has what are for them perfectly good reasons. They may be logical, they may be visceral, they may be cultural, they may arise from fear, but they are real and, for the person, sufficiently cogent and strong reasons to justify the discrimination.
The man in the Abington hospital had his reasons for not wanting blacks or minorities serving them. Mojo has his reasons for not wanting to serve women or homosexuals. Restaurant owners in the South had their reasons for not wanting blacks in their restaurants. Homeowners in the 1930s and 1940s had their reasons for not wanting jews or Catholics moving into their neighborhoods. Hitler had his reasons for the Holocaust. Rev. Butler has his reasons for leading the White Power movement. And on and on.
I have no particular interest in analyzing ANY of those reasons. They exist, and for the most part they are not susceptible to being overcome by calm, rational discussion. The only questions are a) do they do harm, and if so, b) how should society respond (realizing that doing nothing on purpose is a response).
That's why, for me, all this agonizing over why Mojo chooses to act as he does is irrelevant. I frankly don't care. In his private life he has certain rights. In his public life he loses some of those. It's his choice whether to move from the private to the public arena, and in the process give up some of those rights. But I'm not going to give him the choice to overturn basic principles of society because he wants to have his cake and eat it too.
You can like my argument, or you can not like it. Frankly, I don't care. It's out there for those who want to know. Those who don't, like X, are welcome to use their Next or Ignore buttons, as X does. |
