Communication Strategies: Six Guides to Thinking and Talking More Logically

Here are six guides to thinking and talking more logically, more sanely. All of these come from General Semantics—the study of the relationships among language, thought, and behavior. Check out their website at www.generalsemantics.org. 

Discrimination

Judge England has ruled that the names of donors to California's homophobic Proposition 8 be made public. And why shouldn't they be made public? The argument against this disclosure seems to be that these people and their businesses might be boycotted or discriminated against by those they discriminated against. So, if I read this correctly, these homophobes want to discriminate against GLBTQ people and deny GLBTQ people civil rights but they want to do it in secret--with white hoods, perhaps. They want to discriminate against but they don't want to be discriminated against. Seems a bit unfair but also seems pretty typical of those who would discriminate against instead of discriminating between.
The classroom applications of this are many, it seems: owning one's thoughts, freedom of information, ethics, indiscrimination, institutionalized homophobia, cultural prejudice, media bias in reporting, cultural differences concerning interpersonal relationships, and probably a lot more.