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Baby_Hitler
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How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people?
#5547022 - 04/23/06 10:23 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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A corporation is a group of people. How is it different to be prejudiced against them as opposed to being prejudiced against balcks, jews, gays or fatties?
I mean if there'a a specific corporation that practices business in a way you find unethical, that's one thing, but some people here just seem prejudiced against all corporations no matter what their business practices are.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5547082 - 04/23/06 11:00 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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It isn't different. It is prejudiced thinking that is influenced by ideology.
For example, you see people rail against police brutality or corporate shenanigans when the amount of people in those two communities that are committing infractions are very small. Yet, these same people don't harp upon the excessively high rate of violent crime committed by black males.
Ideology causes a person to selectively pick their targets and to conveniently ignore other group's transgressions.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5547246 - 04/23/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm not prejudiced against a corporation as a group of people, but I am against treating a corporation as a legal person.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Silversoul]
#5547258 - 04/23/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Paradigm said: I'm not prejudiced against a corporation as a group of people, but I am against treating a corporation as a legal person.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Silversoul]
#5548190 - 04/23/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Does that mean you're against taxing them as a legal person?
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5548372 - 04/23/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler said: Does that mean you're against taxing them as a legal person?
Sure. I'd be happy if they just taxed the income of the individuals within it(though I'd favor abandoning even this if it was replaced by a land value tax).
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5549906 - 04/24/06 01:02 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Baby_Hitler said: A corporation is a group of people. How is it different to be prejudiced against them as opposed to being prejudiced against balcks, jews, gays or fatties?
The answer to this question seems so obvious to me that its going to be hard to answer but I'll try.
A corporation is an organization that you choose to enter. Black skin is something you are born with.
Moreover, if I find out that Coca Cola is assasinating union leaders in plants in El Salvador, it makes sense that I would be prejudiced against someone who works for coke as they have a direct involvement with their company. It betrays a lack of intelligence to be prejudiced against all black people when one of them commits homicide because the link between the black murderer and the rest of the black people in the world is circumstantial.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people? [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5549956 - 04/24/06 01:34 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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A corporation is a group of people. How is it different to be prejudiced against them as opposed to being prejudiced against balcks, jews, gays or fatties?
I don't think anyone is prejudiced against corporations. It's the things the corporation does in order to maximise short-term profit at the expense of everything else that people find offensive.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5550528 - 04/24/06 09:26 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Blind corporate hate?
You must be talking about hippies...
The facts are that the people complaining about corporations are only able to do so because they could drive a corporate made car to the corporate store to buy a corporate made computer and plug it into corporately provided internet access.
It's just a business concept, one that helps promote economic activity.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: afoaf]
#5550546 - 04/24/06 09:32 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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profits over people. disliking the corporate concept is not like having a problem with blacks, its more like having a problem with greed.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5550563 - 04/24/06 09:37 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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what's wrong with greed?
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: afoaf]
#5550627 - 04/24/06 10:05 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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LOL I think that may be better suited for another thread entirely...
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: Baby_Hitler]
#5551181 - 04/24/06 01:56 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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It sounds like an acceptable double standard. We hate prejudice but we also hate people affiliated with corporations.
No one seems to mind the prejudice if ethnicity and culture are abscent from it.
Im against corporate pay offs and lobbying, but I dont hate anyone associated with corporations. Id work for a corporation if the pay was better than the alternative.
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Re: How is prejudice against corporations different from prejudice against any other group of people [Re: AaronEvil]
#5558466 - 04/26/06 12:19 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Most people don't hate the people who are part of corporation, but the corporation itself and maybe the people who control how it is run.
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