Timeline for What justifications would people use to justify discrimination of people with special powers?
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| May 29, 2020 at 10:39 | answer | added | Commander Nirvanah Crane | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 4:00 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 29, 2020 at 3:04 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Erk If you show emotional vulnerability or distress you are "threatening" rather than "in need of help" (notably, short people face the opposite prejudice, they can get even more worked up but people don't take them seriously because they're seen as harmless). If you act like anything other than the stereotypical gentle giant you're "scary". I've seen police recommend that if a large person seems distraut and unreasonable, just shoot to kill rather than risk your own safety trying to restrain them. This is a good example of how a so-called "beneficial" trait can lead to discrimination. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 2:59 | comment | added | user2352714 | @Erk Speaking as someone who grew up in a family of tall people "you think it don't be like it is but it do". A lot of people think that being tall gives you advantages in being seen as hirable (not to mention the weight advantage in a straight up fight) but what they don't know is it leads to people treating you like absolute dogshit. If you're tall people avoid talking to you because you're "imposing" and act afraid of you. (cont.) | |
| May 28, 2020 at 21:35 | answer | added | Beefster | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 9, 2019 at 21:16 | comment | added | Erk | @dsollen, exactly. Ask historical Incas, Aztecs, and Africans. I think they felt the white guys with guns were pretty hard to oppress. It seems very likely (based on evolutionary logic?) a group of people with powers (technical, ESP, magical, or what have you) would sooner or later become rulers over those without. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 21:09 | comment | added | dsollen | @Erk about as likely as someone that can shoot deadly metal pellets out of their hands just by squeezing a trigger on a metal device would be a weak victim? :P | |
| May 9, 2019 at 20:56 | comment | added | Erk | What was it Joda said? Fear leads to hate? However, one good question to ask is, how feasible is it really that someone that can shoot laser beams out of their eyes would be a weak victim in the hands of the government, etc? mythcreants.com/blog/the-problem-with-oppressed-mages | |
| Apr 1, 2019 at 13:20 | answer | added | Olivier DaFrenchy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 0:07 | comment | added | John | Define weapons grade powers, if "powers" are all cosmetic there is no reason. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 20:36 | answer | added | Giu Piete | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 31, 2017 at 12:41 | comment | added | xDaizu | Mutants are TRAITORS who deviate from the Design of your friend, the Computer! The Computer cares for your well-being. Communist sectaries (who maliciously introduce mutations in the gene pool) don't. Please, help the computer help you by reporting any mutant (yourself included) for summary execution and you will be rewarded. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 4:41 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | When at least a quarter of a religous book talks about subduing (taxing, killing, enslaving, etc.) non-Muslims, I don't normally consider that a pious religion of peace. Granted, there are lots of non-violent decent Muslim people, but you can't pretend that violence isn't a widespread idea. I mean, even the Christian crusades were a response to Muslim moors taking over Europe for a long time. | |
| Jan 12, 2016 at 4:37 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | Um, that is an extremely opinionated article with nothing to back it up. A lot of illegal immigrants (obviously not all of them) are involved with drugs or commit other crimes. Many also receive benefits fr being here without paying taxes. I mean, seriously, at least do a google search and you can find out illegal immigration hurts America. And what is this crap about Muslims? While they are not all terrorists, that 99.95% is a BLANTANT LIE. Try going here thereligionofpeace.com/pages/opinion-polls.htm and I bet you've never read a translation of the Qur'an. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 19:04 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Jul 29, 2015 at 22:57 | answer | added | Lorry Laurence mcLarry | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 21:58 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | JDługosz | Reason? Same as they use now against people who sre smart or talented in any way. "Different" trumps any reasoning that it doesn't matter or is even superior. | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 20:48 | answer | added | Dan Smolinske | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | Murphy | @Andrew Conservatives hate them because they're scroungers, living off public handouts, liberals hate them because so many get recruited by the army and security services who abuse those powers. "FOI documents today revealed that civil rights leaders personal papers were remotely taken from containers in their homes by a mutant working for MI5" | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 17:33 | answer | added | DaaaahWhoosh | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | Andrew is gone | Along the line of registration... there were a couple of volumes of UK short stories from the early 1990s, published as Temps, that dealt with a world where a substantial fraction of people (~5%?) had some form of paranormal power - but all different, and mostly utterly trivial ("I can move things from one container to another!"). The government paid them all a small stipend to agree to be called up if needed. Bingo, economic motivation for public dislike - "they're scroungers, living off public handouts", etc. | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 16:41 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | dsollen | @HDE226868 just to avoid the religious arguments. I know the religious arguments, so I didn't want anyone to waste time answering what I knew. | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 16:21 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | Any particular reason for it to be an atheist, other than to avoid the religious reason? | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 16:02 | history | edited | bowlturner |
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| Jul 29, 2015 at 15:57 | answer | added | Murphy | timeline score: 32 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 15:53 | answer | added | bowlturner | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 15:34 | history | asked | dsollen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |