Black student - 7 yrs Assault/ White student - probation arson, Paris TX

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

AKAMonet,

Are you saying that it's hateful even to notice that people might be treated differently because of their names or it's hateful to say it's a parental duty to choose a name that will minimize the bias a kid faces?

I think it is hateful even to notice that people might be treated differently because of their names.

How are you going to enforce the "duty of the parents naming children" in any kind of US court?

[shinerbock]

Its hateful to notice a fact? Crazy.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Its hateful to notice a fact? Crazy.

So you agree making judgements on people based on their names you have deemed inappropriate on a resume without having ever met them?

Notice is looking at a name on a piece of paper.

Not noticing one's hate? Bigot...

[shinerbock]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

So you agree making judgements on people based on their names you have deemed inappropriate on a resume without having ever met them?

Notice is looking at a name on a piece of paper.

Not noticing one's hate? Bigot...

I'd respond to this if it made any sense. Are you attending the Tom Earp school of writing?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I think it is hateful even to notice that people might be treated differently because of their names.

How are you going to enforce the "duty of the parents naming children" in any kind of US court?

This is ridiculous. It is hateful of us to accept the FACT that your name could be a disadvantage to you in society?

Give me a break.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by macallan25

This is ridiculous. It is hateful of us to accept the FACT that your name could be a disadvantage to you in society?

Give me a break.

So, I take it you do not have a Ethnic name?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

So, I take it you do not have a Ethnic name?

That has nothing to do with it you moron.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I think it is hateful even to notice that people might be treated differently because of their names.

How are you going to enforce the "duty of the parents naming children" in any kind of US court?

I wasn't thinking of it being enforceable at all. It seems to me that there are a lot of unenforceable things that others recognize as duties of good parents: reading to kids, sending them to school ready to learn, attending parents meetings at school, etc. They go way beyond what's required to avoid charges of neglect or anything "enforceable," but society seems to think that good parents do them.

I don't think that it's bad parenting to give your kid a unique name. But I can see that the flip side of "parents should consider this" is the idea that "you didn't consider that, so you're a bad parent," and I was wondering if that's what you were angered by.

I don't think it's hateful to notice discrimination.

I think it's hateful to discriminate on the basis of race.

But I don't think that saying, "hey, naming your kid that may set him or her up for more discrimination" is in itself a hateful statement. It would be hateful to discriminate that way yourself, and it may be stupid to think your opinion matters in what other people name their kids.