If a person has no desire to play the trumpet, then a restriction that persons of his/her kind are forbidden from playing the trumpet would have no effect upon them. Nevertheless, such a prejudicial favoritistic ruling is still oppressive to persons of his/her kind. Maybe several of their “kind” might not care about trumpet playing. But someone is bound to adore trumpets and for that person, to be restricted because of inherent design is the height of cruelty.
Yet people with a bias will say, “ well most [fill-in-the-blank] people don’t want to play trumpets, so that just proves that playing the trumpet goes against the natural make up of [fill-in-the-blank] people. Prejudicial thinking wants to paint groups of people in specific colors and set the parameters of their lives.
Even a positive bias is harmful. By thinking that all [fill-in-the-blank] people should be gifted in trumpet playing, those who do not have nor want those skills are criticized for not doing what all [fill-in-the-blank] people should be doing.
No matter how you look at it, prejudicial thinking seeks to control people's lives and will give special favors to a select few and harm those who don’t fit their little square coffins.
T King
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