Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Encouraging Multigenerational Community:

[don i arkin (shardon5]

"The obvious difference is that behavior (being loud) and political views
(conservative) are, at least to a certain extent, a choice, whereas race
is
not."         I agree with this quote and the rest of the post from Cat,
but I wanted to make a further point about the "racism" or
"discrimination" question.  There is nothing wrong with discrimination,
we all do it hundreds of times a day almost every time we make any
decision.  The problem with discrimination based on race and certain
other things, is that in those cases people are making decisions about
other people based on pre- judgements (prejudice) based on hearsay about
a class of people that they belong to.  In other (clearer) words, if you
have personal knowledge or other good evidence that particular
individuals engage in behavior that you don't like, then you are
ethically free to not associate with them.  There are still situations
where you could get in legal trouble for it, but morally you are home
free.  don arkin at sonora cohousing
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