Posted by Lou PIlder on February 11, 2007, at 18:28:15
In reply to Re: deeply appreciate your efforts....thank you (nm) » Fallen4MyT, posted by zenhussy on February 9, 2007, at 14:44:11
Friends,
It is written here,[...deeply appreciate your eforts..Fallen4MyT...]
I also am deeply appreciative of F4's attempt to bring up to the forum the aspect of favoritism which could be discrimination or what is also known as {two standards}.
You see, this being a mental health community has IMO for it to have a greater responsibility to reinforce that the forum's administration have incorporated into it a diligence to administer without distinction of any kind as to what is civil or not civil.
The effect of being discriminated upon, in particular to one that is participating in a mental health community, has IMO greater consequences not only to the one that is unfavored, but to the one favored also..
I base this on seeing and experiancing the lash of discrimination and the humiliation that goes with that. I have seen those that use discrimination also have the same effects.
Last year a man called me on the phone and said that he could not function in his life. He told me that he was a witness and thearfore a party to me being beaten and discriminated upon and called ethnic epithets, but did not speak up about it and asked me why I did not do anything about it. He said that he was afraid that he would lose his job if he did not go along with it.
For 30 years he had held this inside of him and he said to me that he could no longer endure it. I told him that one can overcome humiliation and debasement.
He said that he was a believer in a popular religion. He asked me what he could do for me and for himself. I told him that the founder of his religion , in his last words said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do"
Lou
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