Pro Human Rights?

On my Facebook feed, I see a lot of my friends have switched their profile pics to this symbol:

Cool. I am not too concerned with gay marriage.   If they want to get married it’s fine with me.  They’ll keep divorce lawyers busier.  I just hope the Supreme Court doesn’t make a decision that will have unintended consequences that are not contemplated currently.  Lawyers get really entrepreneurial and take law intended for use in one place and apply it in a different place.

What concerns me is the tenor and framing of the debate.  Most of my acquaintances will be out and proud for gay marriage-yet when it comes to discrimination in other forms silent.  Somehow if I say I am for gay marriage but don’t want the SOTU to decide, I am a bigot.

I also find that when its a governmental body or NGO that discriminates, somehow that’s okay.  But if a corporation has even an inkling of discrimination-the world is on the road to Armageddon and we need to take all their profit away.

Since so many believe in treating people equally, do they support repeal of things like:

1.  Affirmative action since it discriminates against whites

2.  Gender preferences since it discriminates against men

3.  (Add your own in the comments)

Let’s level the playing field and have a merit based society.  I am all for it.  As my daughter said, at her college they not only change standards and give aid based on skin color and gender, but they enroll minorities in a separate orientation program.  This automatically isolates them from the rest of the class and puts up an artificial barrier.

There are plenty of instances codified in law where it’s perfectly legal to discriminate-generally against white males.

I am all for equality and human rights. My lifetime experience is that “equality and human rights” mean preferential treatment for some at the expense of others.

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