Continuing to look and think on the topic of segregation, I realized I left out an important part of the equation. I looked at my own bias but I didn’t look at what other people would bring to the table. How do people view segregation? Do we all come at the issue with the same background knowledge?
There are three main different venues from which a person can attack this situation (at least that was all I could think of their could be more)
Against Segregation
No opinion on the matter
For Segregation
I then asked myself is everyone who is in each particular venue in it for the same reasons? Or are their multiple reasons behind the view point?
In order to start looking at the various types of ways a person could look at segregation I broke up the categories and started to brain storm on what would lead a person to each view point. Please note this is not an exhausted list – there are many other ways in which either I am too biased to think of or I am still digesting the thought in my mind. So please feel free to point out ideas I missed!
To start off lets look at just one of the Venues:
Against Segregation:
Christian Values: This group is against segregation because they believe it would be going against their religion to judge others. Yet, under this category there could be differences between the denominations, each individual church, who makes up the church, and how a person interprets the bible.
Personal Experience: They have experienced segregation in a way which allowed them to see why it is not desirable in their life. In this category there could be different extremes of people. Including, those against all forms of segregation, those against the ones that hurt them or their family members, and those who only concern themselves only with the most pressing forms of segregation.
Observation: This group of people of is against segregation because they enjoy watching others and have come to the conclusion they are against segregation. Once again, this could mean a million different things – they could be against one type and not another, they could have a different definition of segregation than others, or they could be against segregation but view it as an unavoidable entity. To make this category even harder they could be observers who observed and decided to have either no opinion on the matter or decide to be for segregation.
Personality – This group is made of people who have a heart towards compassion. They always want what is best for others and if they deem segregation is bad then they would be against segregation. Yet, they could be against some types of segregation and for others – because they might think in some ways segregation allows certain people more opportunities (it would be best
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Looking at your list, I know you were only discussing against segregation, but I feel like those ideas could be used by arguments that are for segregation. For example, there are radical ideas sects of Christianity just like in other religions that will use their religion to argue for segregation such as religious groups in the south back before slavery was abolished. Observation, personality, and experience are other things that I think people might use to argue for segregation as well. I was just pointing out that those arguments can go both ways and like you said, they can mean a lot of different things.
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