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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (71339)	8/3/2003 11:51:06 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It was active when the law was made. There is nothing passive in making a law that excludes. Anyone who has ever been excluded knows the experience is not a passive one either.

To: Lane3 who wrote (71339)	8/3/2003 11:55:01 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I was just writing that same thought- but I think it IS an action against... Just because you aren't carrying a sign and marching around telling people not to hire me, by not hiring me (for any reason other than the fact I am not qualified, of course), you are working against me. It may be passive aggressive, but it still works against me. And if there are many others like you who don't hire me and others like me (black, gay, old, bucktoothed- whatever) then we are faced with an entire class being locked out.

To: Lane3 who wrote (71339)	8/3/2003 12:30:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't think it is hair splitting. I find the difference between not giving someone something, and actively abusing them rather important. Also I never claimed that the treatment was not unequal, or even made an argument asserting it was not unfair. I was responding to a specific idea X put forward which I thought was wrong. Once that idea is dealt with you still have the questions - "Are the marriage laws unjust?" and "If so what are we going to do about it or what should we do about it?" Tim