[blindLaw] Respect for Others

[Sanho Steele-Louchart]

Mike,

Honest question: What baout the many, many landlords who would
discriminate against any number of minority people if they could? Or
who would have at one point, but couldn't, and had a change of heart
after getting to know someone they were previously opposed to? It's
hard to hate from up close, but it's a lot easier to keep your
distance when the law says you can. What if 95% of landlord in a given
state would discriminate against a certain group of people if they
could, but because they can't, those people have somewhere to live,
and the landlord realizes those people aren't so bad, after all?

Sanho

On 3/10/23, MIKE MCGLASHON via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Quoting:
> In many civil rights and equality issues,
> silence can be seen as acceptance.
> Silence feeds the oppressor and stifles the oppressed.
> End quote:
>
> Your statement assumes that there are such persons as oppressors and those
> who are oppressed.
> I for one am neither; I am simply a person.
> That is the problem with today's society in my opinion; "we are all victims
> via other people's fortunes" versus recipients of our own endeavors".
> I further believe as legal minds, we of all people in society should know
> better than to intermingle the terms of equity and equality; for we know
> the
> two are not synonymous.  Yet, I hear many a lawyer reach for both; we as
> lawyers know that only one is reachable.  Since we will never have
> equality,
> (I wouldn't want it anyways), this leaves only equity.  After all, we know
> that equity is a remedial measure not a status of society.
> Next, we come to "civil rights".  To me this is a dangerous term for civil
> rights are just those; artificial rights given to us by arbitrary statute
> for arbitrary purposes.  But as the old saying goes, "the lord giveth, and
> the lord taketh away."  Hence, if rights can be created so too can they be
> removed by statute.
> Last I heard of such implementations, the term "Soviet Union" was thrown
> around regularly.
>
> A good example of a arbitrary civil right is the "fair housing act".  If I
> am a landowner who wishes to play landlord, I now have entered into a realm
> where my free property rights are infringed whereby I have no complete
> say-so on who and for what reason I allow another to enter my land.  To me
> this is a problem; for if I truly own my land then I have the right to do
> with it as I wish as long as I do not infringe on land that borders mine.
> I
> am sure there other examples but I do not wish to offend anyone simply have
> constructive dialogue.
> In sum, I am not an oppressor, nor am I oppressed and it is totally up to
> me
> how, where, when, and with whom I engineer my life.
>
> Also, the NFB has a slogan "live the life you want".  Although this sounds
> real sweet in theory, I think the statement should say "live the life you
> earn".  In my humble opinion, we as blindees owe ourselves "individually"
> not necessarily "collectively" the actions of getting along with sightees
> one-by-one instead of trying to mold an entire sighted society, which of
> course out-numbers us by miles.
>
> Please advise as you like.
>
> Mike M.
>
> Mike mcglashon
> Email: Michael.mcglashon at comcast.net
> Ph: 618 783 9331
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Respect for Others
>
> We can only try to work towards a better future for everyone.  In many
> civil
> rights and equality issues, silence can be seen as acceptance. Silence
> feeds
> the oppressor and stifles the oppressed.
>
> On an unrelated note https://youtu.be/cOeKidp-iWo
>
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