“Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs... I know more about this issue than the Americans do. In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world.”
So, if it doesn't have any effect on the lives of those it is forced upon doesn't that make it different from Jim Crow laws, where white racists were obviously against their loss of *tangible* privilege? As in, if blacks were prevented from voting etc, then a system of white discrimination could prevail?
For the record, in case you misread me, I have no problems whatsoever with civil partnership / gay marriage / equality - I'm just playing devil's advocate on a too easy (and US/UK) comparison.
Those who oppose one form of discrimination may not be against another, for selfish reasons.
Have you seen Tongues Untied BTW - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103099/ - which is on black gay men's double marginalisation in black and gay cultures in the US.
Western flirtation with psuedoscience racks up body count in developing world, again!
The managing director of the divining rod company should be forcibly trained up on his own device and then made to go clear a minefield just to prove his device works. Scratch that, anyone working to market them or train people in their use could go too. In no way would I condone such a tragic loss of human life. . . . except in this case I would laugh.
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Fixed - thanks!
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This particular bit of civil rights enforcement will have almost no effect on the lives of those it is forced upon.
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For the record, in case you misread me, I have no problems whatsoever with civil partnership / gay marriage / equality - I'm just playing devil's advocate on a too easy (and US/UK) comparison.
Those who oppose one form of discrimination may not be against another, for selfish reasons.
Have you seen Tongues Untied BTW - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103099/ - which is on black gay men's double marginalisation in black and gay cultures in the US.
Western flirtation with psuedoscience racks up body count in developing world, again!
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Scratch that, anyone working to market them or train people in their use could go too.
In no way would I condone such a tragic loss of human life. . . . except in this case I would laugh.
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Same with pollution - all drinking water in factories should be taken from local water supplies downstream of the factory...
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That is brilliant!! And I'm following Big Ben now.