| hello. my name is Adam and I am a victim.
I am a white, catholic male between the age of 18 and 25. I live in a middle class neighbourhood.
There are no laws, special rights or freedoms or acts or bylaws that protect me or grant me any sort of special status.
If a black person were to call me a "kracker" there is nothing I can do legally. Of course, if I did the reverse, say at school, I would be in some serious trouble.
Now, as a catholic, I feel entitled to wear a cross. After all, Sihks wear a turban, some muslins do as well. They also have religious beliefs concerning beards and facial hair.
As an employee at McDonals there ia dress code.
Men may not wear jewlery, this would include my cross it would seem.
A Sihk, can still wear their turban though. even though it violates the dress code stating we must wear official caps.
This is fair? this is not discriminating against me? or rather, this is not giving someone else a special privilege?
As an Albertan, my car insurance, should I choose to drive, is roughly three times what my younger sister pays. This was decided as "fair" because more young men in my age group had accidents than women in the same group.
I would like to point out that most often the boyfriend drives, or that the DD is a male. Or, at least in all my circles of friends the males drive. If more males are driving during "bar" hours, then of course they will be in more accidents, that's not proof, it's a weighted statistic.
So yes, I am a victim. of the government, of the corporation and of the law.
The government grants certain groups "special" rights, creating in-equality and feelings of "rascism" in those who do not benifit from these rights.
"Optimisim is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable" Voltaire
"The point of sacrifice is giving up something you didn't want in the first place" |