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Caution is the better part of valour.
Great Scobbitygoshkins!
Yeah, I didn't appreciate the 'towel-head' comment
either. But are any of the attacks that have been
thrown at WS this morning any better? Is calling our
president stupid any more noble than calling Bin-Laden
a towel head? Why do we rush to protect those who
aren't like us while we jump at the chance to be
vicious to our own? It's terrible and horrible to make
a stupid comment about a group of people you don't
know, but it's fine to lash out and shout names and
insults at an individual for making that unthinking
mistake? I think we're all better than that.
Fact is, we're all screwed up. We're all saying
things that are good and true mixed up with things
that are at best unfounded and too often stupid. WS,
despite his 'passionate rhetoric', may have actually
said something worth listening to. Heaven forbid we
give him that chance.
I guess what I'm saying is that it is very difficult
trying to carry on conversations with so many people
who know so damned much. When it comes to these
matters under discussion, none of us have a corner on
the truth. The most intelligent among us (Don) and
those who sometimes dazzle me with their use of the
language (Ysoie) and all us blokes in between - we are
all trying to work it out. WE all have strong
opinions that don't necessarily translate into facts.
I'm a pretty smart guy and I often have been able to
state things pretty well, but that doesn't make me
right.
Discussion is good, but let's give each other a little
slack. We should ALL stop acting as if it's absurd to
disagree with our oh-so-rational and educated
thoughts, or our how-come-you're-too-dense-to-get-it
diatribes (and I'm speaking of ALL of us) and take a
little extra time to figure out what we're all trying
to say, and forgive each other when we go a little off
the deep end. I'm not condoning any racism,
xenophobia or anything of the like. I just think
there are better ways to point them out and correct
them then to find ourselves guilty of the same kind of
vile attacks.
Or maybe I just had the wrong flavor Pop-Tarts
today...
Kelvin
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