New Zealand is never in the news

[StarlaJane]

Originally Posted by Joe90

Lack of interest isn't racism being denied. I'm not interested in talking about religion, but that doesn't mean I'm trying to deny any sort of discrimination towards religious folk.

I understand your pov--not everyone gets a lot of satisfaction from discussing political and/or social issues.

Yet I also understand the counterperspective: you can think, for example, "I believe that religious discrimination exists" but if you don't want to/refuse to talk about it, then you give the impression that you are "denying" a particular issue. For example, if I say to you, "Let's talk about religion/religious discrimination" and you say, "I don't want to talk about it, it doesn't interest me" then you are denying the topic; it may as well not exist if you never talk about it. And people usually want to talk about things (like race, religious discrimination, etc.) b/c that is usually how change starts--with a conversation.

[ABQConvict]

With a population of 4.4 million and its central geographic location, you would think it would be making headlines on a daily basis.

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by StarlaJane

I understand your pov--not everyone gets a lot of satisfaction from discussing political and/or social issues.

Yet I also understand the counterperspective: you can think, for example, "I believe that religious discrimination exists" but if you don't want to/refuse to talk about it, then you give the impression that you are "denying" a particular issue. For example, if I say to you, "Let's talk about religion/religious discrimination" and you say, "I don't want to talk about it, it doesn't interest me" then you are denying the topic; it may as well not exist if you never talk about it. And people usually want to talk about things (like race, religious discrimination, etc.) b/c that is usually how change starts--with a conversation.

It's not about satisfaction imo, it's just that there's nothing new to say on the subject -it's all being said before. It's boring.

Denial has a different meaning to you than me. Religious discrimination exists, but I'm still not interested in it. No denial there. I'm only interested in what the law is -that's what really makes change.