Religious discrimination

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a fairly decent video from 20/20 on discrimination against athiests in america.

and here’s an article from the daily herald about christians vandalizing some poor girl’s house because she stood up for herself in a student council meeting.

there are thousands more stories like this, I just ran into these two back-to-back and figured I should throw something up about it. something similar happened to me back when I was in high school, not as extreme as this, but along the same lines. I won’t go into the details, but when I went and talked to the principle at my school about it the response was first “do you know who did it?” and when I said no it was “well then we’re not going to waste time looking into it, we’re too busy.” now I ask you, if it had been a religious student getting targeted for harassment, don’t you think they might have bothered to, i dunno, at least pretend to investigate? hell, they’d probably devote a staff training day to it and throw a special assembly to preach tolerance!

but then i suppose that shows the weakness of our political system, hate crimes only count as hate crimes when the victims have the potential to swing elections (jews, christians, black folks, women, gay people in some places like san francisco but not in places where they’re an invisible minority, and so on.).   Athiests, agnostics, pagans, and others who don’t buy into any of the abrahamic religions are such a tiny minority in america that they can simply ignore us and trample on our rights without fear of any consequences.

for now.

Posted: October 13th, 2007 under gods & religion, politrix.
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