Discrimination is, in essence, an act of cowardice wrapped in ignorance. It manifests when a human being tries to crush another for reasons ranging from skin color to sexual orientation, from age to economic status. But it’s not just an offense against the victim: the one who discriminates reveals their own inner misery, their smallness, their inability to see an equal in another. And that is the most dangerous thing. Because what is thrown today as a stone at another, may turn against oneself tomorrow.
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Discrimination by race or skin color
This type of discrimination is one of the oldest and most widespread. Judging someone by the color of their skin is as absurd as hating a flower for having red petals instead of white ones. We do not choose where we are born or what skin we wear. It’s a biological accident, not a choice.
Raw reason not to discriminate based on race:
Skin changes over time. It wrinkles, it spots, it loses its glow. But the stupidity of a racist is tattooed on the soul.
Moreover, any superiority based on skin color is fictional: there is no superior race, only people who have yet to evolve morally.
♀️♂️ Discrimination by gender
For centuries, women have been seen as inferior simply for being women. Why? Because physical strength was imposed as a measure of worth. But today we know that’s barbaric. Intelligence, the ability to lead, to love, to build, to decide… do not depend on sex.
Powerful reason not to discriminate by gender:
If you were born of a woman, raised by a woman, and someday you’ll love or be loved by one, how can you have the cynicism to see them as inferior?
Would you like someone to deny your mother an opportunity just for being a woman?
👴👵 Discrimination by age
Modern society idolizes youth and despises old age. But all of us, absolutely all of us, are walking toward it. No one gets younger. No one escapes time.
Raw and direct example:
Young person, do not mock the elderly, because if you’re lucky, you too will grow old. And when you get there, it will hurt to remember how you despised what you would become.
The elderly are not a burden: they are living libraries, witnesses of a world that existed before you even learned to walk.
💸 Discrimination by poverty
Despising someone for their economic situation is not only cruel, it’s also stupid. Wealth and poverty change like the weather. Today you’re on top, tomorrow at the bottom. And vice versa.
Blunt reality:
Do you mock the poor? The day you lose your job, that an illness forces you to sell your belongings, or a crisis wipes out your business, will you think it’s fair to be called a failure?
Poverty does not define a person’s worth, but it does test the worth of others by showing how they react to someone with less.
🌈 Discrimination by sexual orientation
This kind of discrimination is born from fear, ignorance, and false morality. No one chooses who they love. It is not a trend, it is not a disease, it is not contagious. It’s simply part of human diversity.
Firm and realistic reason not to discriminate based on sexual orientation:
Does it bother you what another person does with their body or love life in the privacy of their life? Then you’re too empty inside and need to stick your nose in others’ lives to avoid facing your own frustration.
Besides, your homophobia won’t make you more of a man, or more upright. It only makes you more intolerant.
♿ Discrimination by disability
Disability does not make anyone less human. The one who walks slowly, the one who can’t see, the one who can’t hear, the one who needs help to move… is still a complete person, who feels, dreams, and loves like anyone else.
Hard and direct truth:
Today you feel invincible. But an accident, a disease, a second can take from you what you thought was eternal: your mobility, your sight, your health.
Would you want that new you to be despised? Humiliated? If not, then don’t do it now to others.
🕊️ Discrimination by religion or beliefs
Faith is something intimate. It doesn’t have to match yours. Respect is not based on sharing ideas, but on knowing how to live with differences.
Brutal reflection:
If your god commands you to hate, mock, or exclude others, maybe it’s not god you’re following, but your own shadows projected onto an altar.
True spirituality does not exclude. It embraces. It forgives. It understands.
👁️🗨️ Discrimination by physical appearance
We live in an era where artificial “perfection” is sold: plastic bodies, filtered faces, fake lives. But we are all flesh, bone, and emotion. No one is more valuable for having ideal measurements or a symmetrical face.
Truth that hurts:
The body changes, time ravages beauty. If you judge someone by their looks, you’re building your identity on sand. When the mirror gives you wrinkles and extra weight, you’ll want to be valued for who you are, not how you look.
The person you’re making fun of today could be the person interviewing you tomorrow—your boss or the owner of the company you’re applying for—and then you’ll pay the price in life.
🔁 The circle of life collects its debt
To discriminate is to sow hatred, and hatred multiplies. Today you’re strong, young, healthy, successful… but life is a wheel that turns. What you give, comes back. If you give contempt, that is what you will reap.
Last compelling reason:
We don’t refrain from discrimination because we’re “good”. We don’t discriminate because we’re aware that the world changes, that nothing is permanent, and that at any moment we can be the ones being discriminated against.
Treating others as equals is not an act of charity: it’s an act of justice. And of intelligence.