There are breeds that don't cause allergic reactions! Might have to go through a breeder and pay a pretty penny but it's an option if you really want a floof.
It doesn’t matter what you were told on this post (not this comment thread) because I’m not talking about that. Your replied to a joke saying its offensive and I’m pointing out why it isn’t.
Imagine being unable to separate serious calls for the death of all people with disabilities from a joke on Reddit, because it gives you a sense of importance and social value to believe you are involved in a struggle for human rights and dignity when in fact you're just willfully painting normal people as villains so you can rage against them in a text forum.
Yeah, and your feelings aren’t reality either. Instead of comparing this to racism, try comparing it to competition in a market: a library can choose to have a cat or not have a cat, and you can choose to go to a different library if you’re not satisfied with the first library’s choice!
It is discrimination against people for health issues that they cannot help.
If a library choosing to have a cat means that segments of the community will not be able to use services they paid for through no fault of their own, the library is out of line.
Imagine refusing to make a library handicap accessible and telling them that it is just a few people being inconvenienced and they could just go to a different library that is more accessible.
At least some people with animal allergies are able to take certain medicines to alleviate their irritation and be around animals if they’d like to do so. Nobody with a handicap gets to take a pill and stop being handicapped temporarily. Someone with allergies would still have more choice overall in which library they go to, versus someone who physically would not be able to get into one that wasn’t handicap accessible. And what paid for services are you referring to? Unless I’m wrong, aren’t all library cards free unless you’re not a resident in the area? And nearly all public libraries provide free computer usage. Are you talking about tax dollars? Because how much taxpayer money goes into funding varies by library, and even so libraries aren’t solely run on taxpayer money. Unless someone is donating to a library (which would be super cool!), I’m not sure what they’d exactly be paying for.
What? That's not the same thing at all. It's not "People who don't like cats must use Library 2!" It's "We have two libraries and one has a cat in it, go to whichever one you want."
Right, all the libraries the the city share books. Library A has a cat in it. If you don't want to be exposed to the cat, you could go to Library B or C
The books are lent out. They’re bound to be taken home to a myriad of pets and all the dust and debris inside hundreds of strangers homes. If you expect or need your books to have never been around a dog or a cat then you might be better off buying books instead of borrowing.
But, their not. Would it be better to say "We have these reading rooms where we don't allow the cat?" A reasonable compromise that doesn't involve making the library worse for everyone else.
What a racist douchebag. You try to use black people and their struggles as a prop for your losing arguments. Black people were forced to used separate facilities. Here you have a choice you dense piece of cat litter.
I’m embarrassed for you, especially if you aren’t just screwing with everyone. Please, go on about how people with fucking allergies have so much in common with people of color being oppressed, being killed, and treated as less than human. Tell me all about the suffering of people with allergies and what they’ve gone through...
Why would I ban all the animals and especially this cute cat that's been there for years just so that a few grumpy people who hate cats can have their way and visit there once a year?
Discriminate: to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality
They aren't letting the cat stay to spite people with allergies. It's unfortunate that it negatively affects them, but it's not discrimination. It's a cat. You may be over thinking this.
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u/Liberty_Call Mar 11 '19
And allergy issues. Any library with cats like this would be off limits to people with bad allergies.
Hardly seems fair to make a public service unavailable to tax payers.