Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/I like you, Godot, but I'm going to have to call bullshit on that/reply (21)

While I get the terms, I reject the premise. I do think intelligent people can agree that Black persons in the US have it harder than white persons all else being equal. Yes, any individual person has his or her life, with his or her trials. But this idea that all discrimination is equal cause discrimination is, in itself, bad, is part of what prevents groups like the American Atheists from hearing, much less understanding what their few female members were saying.

ADK (I think) has argued the same position for rape. When all rape is bad, just cause it's "rape", then you stop being able to really understand why the rape of a 13 year old girl is truly different and worse than the rape of a 18 year old college student who was drunk and had sex anyhow. Both are rape; both discrimination against atheists and women is discrimination. But they are not the same. We do ourselves a disservice in trying to fix things, when we white wash it all with "discrimination is discrimination".