I was watching a TV program and the words 'double standards' kept being thrown about with little attention being paid to what it really means.
Like statistics, words can be used in any manner to support or debunk what someone else will call a fact.
Fact, of course, is another word that's thrown around like a football.
But double standards, what does it really mean?
"a rule or principle which is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups"
Put simply, if you own a cat, and I hate cats, I'm likely to say to you I like cats because of who you are and what I might want from you.
It has far more reaching consequences in reality because some of us might profess they regard everyone as being equal 'in the eyes of the Lord' but have a very different private view.
Personally, I believe everyone should be treated equally. The problem is, a great many people around me do not, and it seems that I am slowly becoming a minority in my own country.
How do we rectify this?
I don't think we can. Politicians are now running scared in their own constituencies because of the increasing multicultural population, and cannot be seen to favor one group or another.
Until lobby groups come into play, campaign funding to the politician is discussed, and very subtly, votes are bought.
Does your political representative work on the basis of double standards?
Maybe it's time to find out before it's too late, and you too will be living in shanty huts on a reservation.
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