racism, discrimination, or preference?

Question

here are a couple of scenarios:

1) you are on the bus, when all of a sudden a severely handicapped person (perhaps both mentally and physically hadicapped) gets on and sits next to you. you feel very uncomfortable with this person sitting next to you, so you get up and move to another seat. Is this simply your preference to move to another seat, or is the basis for your move based on discrimination against people with disabilities?

2) same scenario, but this time it is a person of another color or race who sits next to you. you feel uncomfortable with that person sitting next to you, so you get up and move, just as you did with the handicapped person. is it preference for another seat, or racism/disrimination?

Answer 1

Give yourself a third scenario: a person who is not handicapped/mentally or otherwise and is the same colour as yourself, but you still feel uncomfortable for any reason. Would you still move. If your answer is yes, neither of your first two scenarios are discriminatory in any respect.

Answer 2

Racism is a type of discrimination. A stereotype is an concept you have some group in the past you realize something approximately them, or an concept which you carry directly to and decide absolutely everyone in that group via. Racism is discrimination against a undeniable races.

Answer 3

1) Discrimination
2) Discrimination

The indicators are "you feel very uncomfortable with this person sitting next to you.." Why would someone feel "very uncomfortable?" They are discriminating against the person based on outward appearance. People should know better. Jeffrey Dahmer was a handsome, clean cut fellow who looked more like a lawyer than a serial murderer/cannibal.

It is what it is. Now, do I care if someone gets up and sits somewhere else? Not in the least. I've got an actual life and don't really care about people who know nothing about me.

Answer 4

i would never move for any of the reasons stated above unless the person gives me a reason to by doing something that in some way irritates me. so i personally dont discriminate ppl and are not reacist. but if i do move, or someone else likeminded, i dont want ppl to use racism or discrimination as an excuse. i have been deeply hurt and called a racist c**t because i moved away once from someone that was blaintanly trying to grab my handbag... i told him that he could have been green for all i cared, i moved because he was scaring me. this was not the first time it happened. so whatever the situations i think is preferable for people not to jump at conclusions.

Answer 5

If I feel uncomfortable with ANY person sitting next to me, I have the right to move. If they assume I move because of their condition or because of their race, it is their problem, not mine. I might just not want ANYONE next to me. For them to assume I moved just because I am different from them is a huge act of arrogance on their part, and racist as well.

Answer 6

I wouldn't get up and move in either scenario. Thats just rude, plain and simple. Its discrimination in the first one and racism in the second one.

Answer 7

Choice.

Answer 8

How about lacking compassion or empathy.
But, such is life.
You must be : Dee-Dee-Dee!
Thnx 4-2!

Answer 9

I wouldn't be so rude as to get up from my seat unless it was my stop.

Answer 10

1. discrimination
2.racism