BWE
Posts: 1902 Joined: Jan. 2006
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Here is my opinion. I'm not going to support it with facts though. I'm just going to offer it. I don't care what label you choose to apply, if you condemn the label you are intentionally closing your mind.
Not that we don't all do it sometimes. But I think if we start with the recognition that injustice is the same thing no matter what label it falls under, then we can start to oppose the actual events rather than the abstract representations. If you want to occupy wall street, don't bitch about the rich and the poor, bitch about inequality. Don't stand in the street, block the crime from taking place upstairs.
If someone attacks a person with the intent to intimidate them and leave them in fear, the person not the mindset is the problem.
Even if there are 500 people with the mindset. The act is the problem. Address the act.
If religions want to put bibles in schools have them put in a locker.
We get thinking the fundies are the problem then they have already committed the crime and the question is what do we have to do to round them up. Same goes for Atheists blacks rich poor homeless whatever.
It just makes the work seem less to condemn the whole group but we can always only deal with problems one at a time.
Education and religion are not the same. If your religion is threatened by education then something is wrong with your religion if your atheism is threatened by religion then something is wrong with your atheism. Abstractions are the source of hate crimes. Not the solution. There is violence. There is hate. There is justice. It is not an abstraction. It is the action society takes to address a problem. Individually. If you feel the urge to make someone stop talking. The problem is you.
If you feel the urge to talk, you have a shot at being the solution.
-------------- Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far
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