BonosSaint
Rock n' Roll Doggie
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We are all bigots in one form or another. Our religion is better, our country is better, our sexual orientation is better, our race is better, our intellectual skills are better (We call PHD's doctors and accord them all sorts of accolades, when I would take the manual intelligence of one good mechanic over ten PHD's. I need my car fixed, damn it--see my bigotry), art is better than science, better than religion, vice versa, ad nauseum.
We are so concerned with convincing everyone our particular position is the right one. Is the person who thinks homosexuality is wrong a bigot? Sure. If that person does not do anything against homosexuals, does not promote an antihomosexual agenda, does not vote for people who promote an antihomosexual agenda and does not try to ban or change behavior in anyway, does it matter?
You may not want to hang with that person.
We're not going to stamp out bigotry in this lifetime, or I suspect, any other lifetime. What we want to stamp out, I think, are the effects of bigotry. When that bigotry infringes. Is all bigotry wrong? Probably. But more fundamentally, it just is. That does not mean we should have to tolerate one iota the effects of it.
Logic isn't effective against any of our sacred cows. What we hold on to as sacred cows, we hold onto emotionally.
We are so concerned with convincing everyone our particular position is the right one. Is the person who thinks homosexuality is wrong a bigot? Sure. If that person does not do anything against homosexuals, does not promote an antihomosexual agenda, does not vote for people who promote an antihomosexual agenda and does not try to ban or change behavior in anyway, does it matter?
You may not want to hang with that person.
We're not going to stamp out bigotry in this lifetime, or I suspect, any other lifetime. What we want to stamp out, I think, are the effects of bigotry. When that bigotry infringes. Is all bigotry wrong? Probably. But more fundamentally, it just is. That does not mean we should have to tolerate one iota the effects of it.
Logic isn't effective against any of our sacred cows. What we hold on to as sacred cows, we hold onto emotionally.