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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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12:49a - Addendum to the Faux-Cred Card Ordinance.
I need to add a corollary to The Faux-Cred Card Ordinance, courtesy of a rant my GF had about some people in her college classes. In a stunning instance of the stars coming into alignment, this exact situation just cropped up on otf_wank. Go figure. Therefore, I humbly present to the assembled of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) jurisimprudence for their consideration:
WAC 375.1.45.1. Faux-Authority Card Statute.
Anyone claiming to be an authority on the discrimination leveled towards a societal group by virtue of associating with/being descended from members of said group -- without actually being a member of the group themselves, or experiencing said discrimination firsthand -- will automatically lose the argument and be transported back to the 1800s for a crash course on segregation and racism.
Examples:
"I know all about homophobia. I have gay friends."
"I know all about racism. My boyfriend is half-black." (This was an actual argument point.)
"I know all about slavery! My ancestors were slaves!" (This was an actual argument point as well, by a girl with some Irish in her background.)
"I know all about discrimination! I'm descended from Pocahontas and a black slave!" (See wank mentioned.)
I consider it very eerie that I wrote this up in my JF a couple days ago and it suddenly became oh so apt.
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