Quote: Scarlet Pimpernell "I had to read it twice to understand that actually what you are writing has little to do with the original post unless of course you assume it was made due to prejudice rather than reason. I am not saying you are wrong because I feel certain players receive excessive criticism not because of how they play but who they are and how over time this becomes to some the way it should be. It is in a lesser form the reincarnation of the theory portrayed in the novel 1984. The doctoring of free speech is replaced by it is Fox for example therefore he is at fault they fail to see the effort he puts in over the course of the game, rather they focus on he cannot catch the high ball despite on many occasions last season not having any protection seen at other clubs.
I suppose this could be prejudice not resulting from any one event but due to the premise of the protection of the group rather than the individual "to quote Spock the needs of the many out way the needs of the one" so you could say I have disproved my own theory.'"
now this is what forum dabate should be about...
Theoretical hypothesis about stuff which means nothing, will change nothing but stretches the mind and challenges mental models...
PS I am accusing noone of prejudice I just ask for the consideration that it might be there, even subconciously.
real story or parable.
My youngest son (aged 17) is in his final year at school... it is a very mixed school with the full range of immigrants and includes an Indiginous Australian Scholorship scheme.
He was in recess recently when he overheard a recent male immigrant student from the Philipines (of the same age)becoming verbal and abusive against a Downs Syndrome student and Downs sufferers in general... My son told him to stop!
At that point he turned his aggression on my son and became physically as well as verbally abusive. My son is a student of Judo, Ju Jitsu, Karate an ex RL player a weightlifter and State level rower... he took the agressor to task and made sure he was aware of the error of his ways... (he is trained to use minimum force to subdue his opponent so the guy came to no harm) during the spat my son was accused of a racially motivated attack based on prejudice... although this was not followed up due to the high number of witnesses.
So this young man accused someone who had challenged his own prdjudice by accusing his challenger of being predjudice themseleves.
(I think parables are meant to have an open ending and I am not sure this is open enough... but...)