Let it be stated for the record: What I meant by posting those two essays earlier is that two wrongs don't make a right. I have nothing against the south. I have many friends in the south or from the south. Moss has family there. By and large I find that people are people no matter where you go. In my home state of California I have personally known racists, homophobes, fundamentalist Christians, and so on. I am well aware that many people in my state and in other blue states voted for Bush.
I apologize for the previous post. I was not thinking straight or I should have avoided politics. Over the past week I have been very depressed. I have seen many of my friends, people who are (or were) friends with each other, fight viciously and say very ugly things to one another because of politics. What I was trying to do was a share a laugh by saying hey, look, we're all being ridiculous. I see that the intended result was obviously not the actual result. I'm sorry.
What I really ought to have said yesterday in the previous post is this: Just because someone is a liberal, it doesn't mean he or she is a good person. Just because someone is a conservative it doesn't mean he or she is a bad person. I have Republican friends as well as Democrat (and Green and Non-Partisan and Libertarian and Anarchist) friends, I have Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Universalist Unitarian, Wiccan, Buddhist and Atheist friends. Seeing them fight with each other hurts. The only way to begin fixing things is to work with each other and respect each other.
If/when you read the essays in the previous post, I hope you'll remember before you cast stones at one side for being intolerant and ignorant and rude, that the other side is just as culpable. I don't mean to condone venomous and insulting rants, but to say this sort of thinking will not help us, this is not the way. Stop feeling so righteous and superior for a second and remember that we're all people and we're mostly all just trying to do the best we can.
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07:13:09 PM,
Wednesday 10 November 2004
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It seems like someone should post something to counteract the appalling essay Annelet linked to in her blog. Have some vitriol from the other side. I'm not saying this isn't appalling, just that it's also highly entertaining.
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