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And I understand the slow day thing. It's a hard thing to discuss, and in my class it's becoming increasingly difficult to articulate being, in some's opinion, on two sides of the fence. I guess I just don't understand all the legality of discrimination and such.
The name is disparate. That alone is becoming difficult to me to understand. Like, if it's the same thing, then why not let it be the same thing? For instance, you and I are both wearing pink sweaters. Same fabric, same print, same everything, even made in the same factory. Yet I make a point to be like "Mine is Old Navy pink sweater", and you say "Mine is Target" (although their stuff isn't bad!). By all ways of looking at it, they are the same EXACT sweater, so why have the name game? They are the same. They could both be Old Navy. Or they could both be Target. Hell, if we both decided to mess it up (paint in it, give it to someone else, have two people wearing it at the same time, etc. etc), then it doesn't change the fact that the two are the same, which makes them equal. Yours isn't less then mine, so why would we treat the sweaters as such?
On the same token, people have license to treat your pink sweater less than mine because to them, it's not the same. It's the NAME that counts. It's the fact that mine is the more acceptable that makes your sweater cheap. And when you investigate the background of the two, you may wonder "Well, why in the hell does mine have to be less/why does hers have to be more? They are basically the same--I just opted not to by mine at that price/at that store" THAT'S what I mean about the second class-ness of it all. It's all in the name and what is warranted by the denotation and the conotation (sp?).
Bear with me, it's one of those days for me as well.
enigma_AKA
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