The Endgame of Discrimination

"Picture a world in which people have finally gotten past mentally grouping each other and behaving differently towards one another because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, immigration status, gender, size, physical ability, class, wealth, or just about any other construct you care to name where discrimination currently takes place. *poof!* we're all enlightened and we can suddenly see each other purely as individuals each to be dealt with on our own merits."

Actually, we'll all either be brain dead or really, really brainwashed. Because human beings are not equal in fact (only before the law) and discrimination, at root, is the essence of rational thought. Unless you want me to refuse to discriminate between your writing and the writing of a third grader. Or you want to pretend there is no difference between my understanding of math and science and your own? After all, why discriminate on the basis of silly things like ability, learning or talent? Why hurt someone by implying that they are not as good at something as somebody else? Surely my poems are as good as yours, and you can put a satellite into orbit as easily as I?

Also, I find it really, really ironic that those who preach the equality in fact of all people, cultures and religions seem to think that the only religions left which it is OK to criticize are Judaism and Christianity, the only culture left which it is OK to criticize is Western culture, and the only people left that it is OK to criticize are white people.