Yes, you're basically making my point. That you think that other people getting equality is discrimination against your right to discriminate against them. For example, if a textbook describes gay relationships in a positive way, you say that discriminates against you, when it's simply treating gay people with equality. Every point you made I could explain similarly.
Equality would be if I could get my child into a school where the textbooks teach that homosexuality is harmful and immoral, which is my good and reasonable belief.
Where is this school? Where's the school that teaches against safe spaces and book-burning? Against statism? Where's the school that teaches the nuclear family and gender roles? That teaches whites shouldn't be discriminated against or punished for ancient wrongs? That teaches government is the problem more often than the solution? That teaches true fiscal conservatism?
My taxes pay for public schools, and I attended a public school for a time, but I assure you there's no conservative in their right mind circa 2020 who'd send their kid to a public school. I also assure you that's not because conservative values are "equally" represented. My values are absolutely nowhere to be found in my government or my society.
Are white people poorer on average? Less employed on average? Undereducated on average?
Ah, so by "equality" you mean fining, punishing, and legislating away opportunities for every member of a race whose mean statistics are more favourable?
By that definition of "equality", I can see why
@RealityNow seems to think that a government taxing me through the nose and using the proceeds to marginalize my race, gender, and religion is "equality".
You object to saving gay peoples' lives from AIDS as discriminating against you - while our nation's healthcare system is overwhelmed by right-wing people who got preventable Covid by saying masks violate their freedom? On the gay people being helped offend you. You made my point.
Here is
my point: I pay through the nose to shield people from the consequences of their perversions, indiscretions, addictions, and poor decisions without reaping a dime in return, and far from "thank you", your response is, "Oh, poor, straight white guy thinks he's so hard done by when the problem is his bigotry and discrimination."
I'm sorry, but my "bigotry and discrimination" didn't create the epidemic of STDs, AIDS, broken homes, unwanted children, abortions, low birth rates, and countless other factors stripping our society to the bone, and yes, I take offense when men treat me like a piece of garbage whose only purpose in life is to pay out and shut up. Which--make no mistake--is precisely what you and
@RealityNow are doing here.
And BTW, I've followed the masking and social distancing rules to the letter
despite the fact that every ounce of empirical data points to the conclusion that they're utterly worthless.
You get that? I am complying with the laws
despite every avenue of research confirming that to do so is useless and irrational. Which is regrettably the status quo for rational, law-abiding people these days.
One of my close relatives just lost a restaurant of 30 years due to the lockdown, as we waited in vain hope complying with these absurd lockdown orders. Rather than the retirement she worked so hard for, funded by her own savings, she'll survive month to month on an old-age pension doled out by the government. She's destitute precisely because we are law-abiding people. So you'll excuse me if I tell you stick your "point" where the sun don't shine.