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How Can It Be Wrong To Openly Say You Do Not Like Certain People?
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http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-23 21362/I -stand- Jewish- people- Lawyer- loses-c areer-o ffice-r ant-que ue-jump ing-man -medica l-centr e.html
/// Trouble began after she attended the Bardoc medical centre in Bury with her baby. The hearing was told a man dressed in Orthodox Jewish attire 'caused a scene' at the surgery and as a result was seen first by a doctor. ///
/// Back at the law firm Mrs Morris relayed the incident to a receptionist she shared her office with and said: 'I cannot stand Jewish people.' ///
Would she had been so treated if she had said "I cannot stand old people"?
/// Trouble began after she attended the Bardoc medical centre in Bury with her baby. The hearing was told a man dressed in Orthodox Jewish attire 'caused a scene' at the surgery and as a result was seen first by a doctor. ///
/// Back at the law firm Mrs Morris relayed the incident to a receptionist she shared her office with and said: 'I cannot stand Jewish people.' ///
Would she had been so treated if she had said "I cannot stand old people"?
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If you have disliked most (or all) of the Jews you have ever met there is a strong likelihood that you will dislike any others that you meet. Even if you have only met a very small proportion of the total Jewish population that is your personal experience. It’s called using your experience to help you in the future. Based on your experience, to say “I don’t...
13:11 Thu 09th May 2013
"She made comments in presence of a Jewish cashier at her law practice..."
"...she relayed the incident in the presence of a Jewish cashier at her law practice in Rossendale, Lancashire. After making her comment, the unnamed cashier said: 'Please do not say that' but Mrs Morris added: 'I don’t care, I cannot stand them.'"
That's perhaps why.
"...she relayed the incident in the presence of a Jewish cashier at her law practice in Rossendale, Lancashire. After making her comment, the unnamed cashier said: 'Please do not say that' but Mrs Morris added: 'I don’t care, I cannot stand them.'"
That's perhaps why.
/How Can It Be Wrong To Openly Say You Do Not Like Certain People?
'I cannot stand Jewish people.' /
the answer is already there aog
you need to be 'cleaner' in your language
it is ok to say you don't like 'certain people' as in "I hate Ben Cohen"
To say you "don't like Jews" is about a racial/ethnic group - a racially motivated generalisation.
'Old people' is not a racial/ethnic group
'I cannot stand Jewish people.' /
the answer is already there aog
you need to be 'cleaner' in your language
it is ok to say you don't like 'certain people' as in "I hate Ben Cohen"
To say you "don't like Jews" is about a racial/ethnic group - a racially motivated generalisation.
'Old people' is not a racial/ethnic group
Really stupid behaviour for a solicitor. If I said ' I hate black people I can't stand them' clearly that's a ridiculous and racist thing to say just as it is with Jews, Muslims, Gays, old people,young people, women, men. That's why it's called discrimination- because it is hatred of a group because of one particular attribute regardless of all else.
If I'd said "I cannot stand old people" when I worked at the Alzheimer's Society day centre, I'd have expected to lose my job ... it's about context/history/offensiveness of the specific remark.
And jno is right - she wouldn't have had nearly so much flak if she had been very specific about not liking the person jumping the queue - rather than extending the slur to a whole religious group.
And jno is right - she wouldn't have had nearly so much flak if she had been very specific about not liking the person jumping the queue - rather than extending the slur to a whole religious group.
It may not necessarily by a question of certain groups being allowed to take offence and others not. The cashier concerned pursued this as far as she could, as was her right. Other people may have chosen not to do so, but that doesn't mean that, say, an "old person" similarly insulted couldn't pursue a claim of discrimination.
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It's a continuum I think jomifl ... saying "I find I have had little in common with Jews/Muslims/OldGits who I have met personally and tend to dislike them" is probably OK - extending it to "I hate all .." is ceratinly wrong.
Where one topples into the other is (I guess) open to debate, but I think that as soon as you extrapolate on the basis of limited evidence you are going to be in trouble.
Where one topples into the other is (I guess) open to debate, but I think that as soon as you extrapolate on the basis of limited evidence you are going to be in trouble.
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