[blindLaw] Respect for Others

[MIKE MCGLASHON]

No disrespect taken.


Please advise as you like.

Mike M.

Mike mcglashon
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-----Original Message-----
From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sanho
Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 6:56 PM
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Cc: Sanho Steele-Louchart <sanho817 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Respect for Others

*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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