On Equal Rights, Equal Opportunity, Discrimination, Preferentialism, and Reverse-Discrimination

'Sexual stereotyping, discrimination, and profiling (targeting)' is no different than 'racial stereotypeing and profiling (targeting)' and can be used manipulatively and pathologically against either sex and/or any race against either sex and/or any race.

This is an imperatively important point to make because many so-called 'equal rights' groups have somehow come to the conclusion that equal rights for 'customarily discriminated against groups' -- meaning so-called 'minority ethnic groups' and 'women' -- should involve 'preferential rights' and 'preferential treatment' for these groups in order to 'offset the customary disadvantage' of the 'customary discrimination'.

This logic is full of holes...such as:

1. It believes that somehow 'two discriminatory wrongs make a right';

2. It is reverse-discriminating against 'so-called non-minority ethnic groups (meaning 'whites')' and 'men';

3. It believes that given 'equal rights' and 'equal opporunity' by the government -- even if it is legally bound in 'The Canadian Constitution', that somehow this is still not enough, that employers will still discriminate against these groups, and that therefore these still need an extra 'handicap push' ('affirmative action' programs, government (guilt?) handouts, special free training programs, etc.) from government in order to offset 'the residual of old discriminatory habits and practises by employers, white males, private citizens, etc... These so called 'equal (narcissistic, preferential) rights' groups don't talk about the possibility -- indeed, inevitability -- of these 'reverse-discriminatory practises on the part of government' inflaming new racial and sexual tensions (and not of the pleasurable, pleasant type)...Furthermore, they don't talk about the fact that this idea of 'preferential pushing' is simply another form of discrimination -- not only against the other groups in society that are not getting the preferential treatment but also against the 'pampered groups' groups as well, because it is treating them like they are 'handicapped' and 'need government help'...in effect, it is a backhanded insult to the particular race, culture, and/or ethnic group involved 'that they need help' because given equal rights and equal opportunity is still not enough to help them progress up Western society's (economic) ladder, and similarily, it is an insult against women...Plus, these types of benefits are going to be used narcissistically, manipulatively, and unfairly...In the meantime, for example, there are thousands of women and members of so-called 'ethnic minority groups' that have more money at their disposal than I will ever see in a lifetime...The goal of 'equal rights' and 'equal opportunity' should be nothing more, and nothing less. If there are going to be any 'economic handouts' then these 'freebies' should be equally available for any and every race, culture, religion, and both sexes -- otherwise, the government is practising the same type of discrimination that it is trying to get rid of...Things like 'free seminars for women who want to start their own business' should be equally available for men -- at the same price, i.e., 'free'; otherwise, it is discriminatory against men. And this is just a very small starting point. The type of 'reverse-discrimination' is systemically rampant in Canadian Goverment and in the Canadian Domestic/Family Courts...


As a white, Canadian male dispatcher, I would sooner work beside any man or woman of any colour from any cultural, religious, and/or racial background that knows what they are doing in the job they are doing than to 'stereotype, profile, and target' someone who is a 'white, male' -- and doesn't know what he is doing. And I am only surmising here, but I believe that in the end, most employers in Canada today want someone who can do the job they are hired to do -- properly and well -- not 'stereotype, profile and target' someone who can't do the job they are hired to do... This is not to say that 'discrimination' is not still happening in Canadian society because most definitely it is -- but it is happening in all directions against 'whites' and 'males' as well as against all other forms of the currently government 'stereotyped, profiled, and targeted' forms of discrimination...

I have no problem with 'social safety nets' in society for the poor and for our seniors but this has nothing to do with race, culture, religion, colour, or sex...I'm a liberal as well as a conservative working to integrate the two -- 'liberal-conservatisim' -- in a dialectical union.




-- dgb, July 1st, Canada Day, 2008.