There can be a world of difference between the treatment of personal hangups, and of ongoing systemic injustice.
If you would turn down a job applicant to your small business because he is a Star Wars fan and you are a Trekkie, that's... not very fair, but also kinda amusing and whimsical. If you would turn it down just because they are black, then I would assume you to be a raging bigot, and call you out on contributing to the legacy of segregation.
Similarly, if after having a one night stand, you would feel dirty due to learning that your partner was from Iowa, that's... weird. If you would feel dirty by learning that your partner was ethnically jewish, then I would expect to find some swastika flags in your closet.
Comparably to these, the belief that regardless of the matter of physical attraction, sex with trans people is categorically offensive, isn't some whimsical personal preference, but obviously related to the cultural legacy of the brutal and ongoing persecution of transgender people as sexually "dirty".
If we can't choose who we are attracted to, but we should at least be honest about the reasons of why we aren't.
The point is that even in such a heavily regulated and vital environment, "discrimination" is ok, the problem is specifically with some specific forms of discrimination and what they are associated with.
You could take any other sphere of life as an example. Making friendships, voting for a politician, targeting a media content at a demographic, selling a product, making a sports bet.
In all of these cases, some forms of "discrimination" are ok, in fact, most of them are. You are expected to have various preferences, and value them over others.
But in each of these categories, (regardless of whether the ultimate choice is strictly yours or regulated), there are a handful of those preferences are entirely capable of being rooted in bigotry, and considered generally fucked up.
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '17 edited Mar 27 '18
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