[blindLaw] Respect for Others

[Sanho Steele-Louchart]

*about, *landlords. Apologies for the typos lately. I just realized
that my screen-reader wasn't telling me about spelling errors in Edge
lately. I fixed it, and it shouldn't continue to happen. No disrespect
intended.

Warmth,
Sanho

On 3/10/23, Sanho Steele-Louchart <sanho817 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of jim--- via
>> BlindLaw
>> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:06 PM
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>> Cc: jim at skamarakas.com
>> 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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