[blindLaw] Respect for Others

Sat Mar 11 01:52:37 UTC 2023

If landlords can discriminate, virtually, no one would have a place to live. Furthermore, even more people would likely not be able to even own a business because a lot of businesses rent space. In addition, if one goes to say that the fair housing act is arbitrary, what statute will come next? The ADA, fair labor, standards, act, FMLA, other civil rights acts? 

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> On Mar 10, 2023, at 7:57 PM, Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> *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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