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Spending too much time in the richest, most tolerant counties in the country can make you forget that we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage.

Yes it's a teeny tiny little bit of a shame that a college president had to step down for raising a fair academic question. It is not half as important as when a cop shoots a black person dead for dating with a white girl.

>>zug_zu+(OP)
> we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't believe in interracial marriage

1. Who cares? Those colleges are private entities and presumably this admissions discrimination means they cannot receive Federalor state funds. If admitting gay students goes against their religious beliefs, then the rest of us benefit from having the people they reject.

2. It is not up to us to tell other families who they can and can't marry, or what they can or can't think. Let the bigots be bigots in their bigoted bubble, as long as they don't hurt anyone outside it. (If their children wish to leave the bubble, we should protect and support them privately.)

3. A cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl is homicide, independent of anyone's beliefs.

>>hyeonw+gp
>Who cares?

I believe it’s in everybody’s best interest to stand up against discrimination.

>>hyeonw+gp
Right, but the problem is that consequences for a cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl don't seem to be the same as the consequences for homicide.

>>zug_zu+(OP)
Don’t criticize obviously bad things because there are things that are even worse.

>>mosheg+4R
Can you cite a case where this happened and the consequences were unreasonably light?

>>zahlma+uC1
There's stuff all the time:

https://eji.org/news/alabama-attorney-general-releases-white...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americ...

Or here's a case where 6 officers collude to torture 2 black people to death (https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-guilty-pleas...). Surely they'll get a real sentence now that it's news, but it makes you wonder how many cases never get identified as racially-based when the investigators are the perpetrators.

And boy it sure does seem odd that further south you go the more of a problem it is... I wonder what could explain that phenomenon....

>>zug_zu+yj2
Which of these links describes "a cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl"?

>>LeafIt+HO
I don’t give a fuck if Bob Jones University rejects homosexuals and neither should anyone.

>>slanta+dA4
Well, I do. Sorry if that offends you, I guess.

Let them discriminate on acceptable characteristics, such as grades, extra curricular activities, and legacy status like every other college.

>>slanta+dA4
"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People"

>>slanta+dA4
Well for all the whinging about how biased-to-the-left universities are, it sure seems ironic that the only colleges that explicitly banning attendance over different opinions are colleges on the right.

If somebody complains persistently about all the times the "woke" is unfair but conveniently forgets to mention a single time conservatives are unfair then I can only presume either they are not very educated about the facts of our world, or intentionally misrepresenting the facts of our world.

>>jimbok+cp1
We're all here because the author is criticizing opinionated people for loudly disliking obviously bad things.

Rock meet glass house.

I'm sure you did that on purpose. I'm sure I'm the silly one here.