Speaking out for acceptance, understanding

York Daily Record ^ | 9/10/07 | Teresa McMinn

[Nextrush]

Discrimination isn't always intentionally hateful or even blatant.

Staring too long at an obese person or assuming that someone doesn't belong in a certain place because they might look different is also prejudicial.

To help promote acceptance and understanding, a group of people will share personal encounters with discrimination this October.

In conjunction with Diversity Awareness Month in October, the York County Diversity Coalition will host a series of first-time programs for the public and held in the evenings at high schools across the county.

The discussion topics include obesity, racism, judgement based on sexual orientation and disability. Each session will last about 90 minutes.

About five or six speakers will each have a few minutes to describe discrimination they've experienced. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

Adrienne McNeil, executive director of York County Community Against Racism, said her organization frequently receives complaints of racism and other forms of discrimination. Some people who shared their stories with YCCAR agreed to be speakers in the school programs.

"The comments, the looks...people experience on a daily basis. As an African-American, I've got my own stories," McNeil said....

The program resulted from the York County Diversity Coalition, which was formed about a year ago to promote respect and equality. The group comprises representatives from organizations including the York County Chamber of Commerce, Jewish Community Center, Crispus Attucks and Planned Parenthood......

[Nextrush]

This story in my area has so many juicy tidbits in it to ignore.

The diversity racket wants to demonize the way people look at each other.

But the obesity part of this really skyrocketed me.

The "obese" in our society are being marginalized by the very liberals that want us to worry about discrimination against them.

Anti-obesity policies pushed by liberals in Pennsylvania mean the Body Mass Index of all students in schools are measured.

If a student weighs too much, a letter is sent home.

They are commonly called "fat letters."

These eugenics types (like Margaret Sanger was) have crawled out of the slime to push a more perfect race again like they did a century ago.

And take note the "Diversity Coalition" includes Planned Parenthood founded by Sanger.

The "open-minded" and "progressives" are waging war on trans-fat with lawsuits, local bans and obesity study groups all over the country to craft more "wellness" policies.

The liberals themselves are causing the alienation of the "obese."

Also considering that Planned Parenthood is involved, does this mean the diversity crowd wants to make being pro-life a "hate crime?"

What hypocrites!

[Izzy Dunne]

I was exceptionally tall (6' 5") as a teenager. I was stared at. The jokes about "how's the weather up there" are as unfunny now as they ever were.

I decided not to make a career out of being offended.

[PEACE ENFORCER]

ALL Groups pushing their Left Wing Waco Ideology on others should be BANNED and DEFUNDED, period. Now that I’m thinking about it ALL Liberals or Progressives pushing their poison should be publicly targeted and shunned from society. Take your good intentions and cram it. Leave people alone to pursue their own happiness, joyness, and freedoms, which are being taken away at an alarming rate due to the degradation of the rule of law, and the usurptation of God (Liberals want this job) in public. This is so sickening and disgusting I’m waiting for the spark in this country where Good People begin to remove these people and organizations by force if needed!

[Al Gator]

This is so idiotic.

I can remember my Irish granny sending me back out to face the boys that had called me names.

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names kinnevera hurt ya” “Now go an punch the biggest one in the nose...”

No one, absolutely no one, can “offend” me. I’ve decided that.

I am in control of my life. I won’t permit someone else to control how I feel.

Call me anything and everything, I really don’t care, because I don’t care a whit about the person calling the name or staring!

Its how I survived 15 years in Asia, most often being the only white guy around for miles. (and kids DID ask to see my tail)

To all the whiners, get a grip, get a life, learn my most favorite retort when someones comments about me being a big a$$h*le: “AND I HOPE YOU DON’T LIKE IT!”

Sends THEM into a tailspin.

[thulldud]

The diversity racket wants to demonize the way people look at each other.

This is the sort of thing that siblings squabble over when they're under 10 years old: "Mama, he's LOOKIN' at me!!!"

But then, liberals are kids that never grew up.

[Leg Olam]

I suppose that somewhere there may be a few people who don’t discriminate through predjudice,

I hate them.

[wizr]

Most of us were picked on as children. It’s a part of growing up. Some are tall, short, fat, skinny, wore glasses, etc. Me, I was a fat kid.

We learn that those who pick on others are just trying to build their own egos. By degrading others, they are making themselves feel better. To me the best example was the KKK.

That said, we each should love being different, in our own way. However, we must not use “diversity” to enforce more laws of acceptance.

We must each decide whether WE want to be like “that”. Freedom to choose our life is a God given right. But, we must not force that lifestyle on others.

Because I don’t want to follow, or even be introduced to a certain lifestyle, does not mean I HATE it. It means that is MY choice.

Will those pushing diversity soon have us smoking, drinking to excess, or using illegal drugs, just so we know how those individuals FEEL?