Draft one written and sent out to the mailing list WordUp. It was written as a partially related response to HarmFromTheHague by RichardStallman.
For so long we've been fighting discrimination and prejudice by encouraging everyone to be the same. The cry is that X minority is just the same as you, thus you shouldn't discriminate against them.
I believe that this is utter and complete crap. We aren't all the same, physically, mentally or socially. Every culture, race and gender has their own strengths and weaknesses. We are more willing to admit physical differences (men tend to be stronger then women), but social differences arouse more suspicion and anger because they are harder to quantify.
We need to stop pretending that we are all the same. We shouldn't all get along because we're the same, we should all get along because it's a whole fuck load more fun to get along with each other than to kill each other.
We need to learn to celebrate diversity, diversity is what makes us strong as a species and a culture. Lets stop pretending that we're all equally worthy, that race, gender and culture make no difference to our physical and mental make-up.
We are all different from each other in all sorts of immeasurable ways. Get used to it, relish it, cherish it, live it ... You have more to learn from someone nothing like you then from someone just like you.
-- AdamShand