I'm a judgmental asshole
Oct. 3rd, 2002 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzA? An? yeesh
Cut and changed from DCFreaks:
The people that I have known that object to this round of protesters, including myself, do not object to their protesting or their right to voice their dissent. I / We / They are very turned off by the disruptive behavior we have heard they want to engage in. If this information is inaccurate, then we are doing the best with what we have. If you’re a part of the movement and the press is inaccurate – then I’d address that issue.
I tend to generally trust the Washington Post and NPR – both fairly objective and arguably liberal. If anything, overall these sources bent over backwards to PRETEND there was a unifying philosophy behind these street parties...I mean protests. If the Wash Times (Mooney owned loonies) was the only source reporting these kids as morons then I’d be more skeptical.
I understand the protests from my grade school years - it's fun to be bad, to believe to be part of a unified subculture, to break stuff! Whee! You ever notice how when rioting happens looting occurs? How political is that new TV exactly?
To get myself in trouble: I read a well thought-out editorial by a member of an Islamic church that was pointing out that while he didn’t agree with the prejudice against middle-easterners and Islam after 9-11, that he gave SOME of the blame to Muslims for their failure to distance themselves from extremists within their movement. It’s one thing to blame others for lumping these unknown elements into one group – it’s another to be passive towards members who claim affiliation within your group.
I'm 100% anti-muslim. I'm prejudiced and not denying it. I'm 100% anti-christian, too. I am against any religion - what a crock of low self-esteem bullshit. I allow people to practice this insanity - not partially because if this is how they behave when the fear punishment for their treatment of other people then WOW imagine if they believed ONLY MORALITY guided their actions, as I do.
I 'dated' a muslim girl who hates me to this day. She was completely insane of course (see 'dated me'), but her last straw was when I told her to just ignore her parent's teachings and reach out for reality on her own. That was me being anti-muslim. My ex hated(s) me for being anti-christian and shutting down every time the bible is invoked. Um, yes, I think everyone that bends their head in prayer is an idiot. I try to be nice about it, but that is in fact how I feel. In my experience there is an inverse relationship between brains & mental health with degree of religious conviction.
I don't consider my prejudice to be unwarranted. I have found based on my readings and direct experiences that these are facts. I am open to the idea that there are exceptions and that I may even be wrong – but I am resistant to such information, as it is inconsistent with everything I know today. I don’t block this out on purpose, but I feel it is reasonable to do so. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof – and if one person told me Xenon was no longer inert in nature I’d consider them a fool unless I heard the same thing from multiple credible sources.
That’s one of those reasons I piss people off so much. It’s not so much the opinion or the way I express it – it’s more the feeling I give people that I am not listening to them, that I don’t respect their opinion. I don’t mean to hurt their feelings, but that is how I feel and I am very poor at hiding my feelings. I'm also growing really imaptient with...well everthing right now. Perhaps the fact I have no children is a good thing.
Cut and changed from DCFreaks:
The people that I have known that object to this round of protesters, including myself, do not object to their protesting or their right to voice their dissent. I / We / They are very turned off by the disruptive behavior we have heard they want to engage in. If this information is inaccurate, then we are doing the best with what we have. If you’re a part of the movement and the press is inaccurate – then I’d address that issue.
I tend to generally trust the Washington Post and NPR – both fairly objective and arguably liberal. If anything, overall these sources bent over backwards to PRETEND there was a unifying philosophy behind these street parties...I mean protests. If the Wash Times (Mooney owned loonies) was the only source reporting these kids as morons then I’d be more skeptical.
I understand the protests from my grade school years - it's fun to be bad, to believe to be part of a unified subculture, to break stuff! Whee! You ever notice how when rioting happens looting occurs? How political is that new TV exactly?
To get myself in trouble: I read a well thought-out editorial by a member of an Islamic church that was pointing out that while he didn’t agree with the prejudice against middle-easterners and Islam after 9-11, that he gave SOME of the blame to Muslims for their failure to distance themselves from extremists within their movement. It’s one thing to blame others for lumping these unknown elements into one group – it’s another to be passive towards members who claim affiliation within your group.
I'm 100% anti-muslim. I'm prejudiced and not denying it. I'm 100% anti-christian, too. I am against any religion - what a crock of low self-esteem bullshit. I allow people to practice this insanity - not partially because if this is how they behave when the fear punishment for their treatment of other people then WOW imagine if they believed ONLY MORALITY guided their actions, as I do.
I 'dated' a muslim girl who hates me to this day. She was completely insane of course (see 'dated me'), but her last straw was when I told her to just ignore her parent's teachings and reach out for reality on her own. That was me being anti-muslim. My ex hated(s) me for being anti-christian and shutting down every time the bible is invoked. Um, yes, I think everyone that bends their head in prayer is an idiot. I try to be nice about it, but that is in fact how I feel. In my experience there is an inverse relationship between brains & mental health with degree of religious conviction.
I don't consider my prejudice to be unwarranted. I have found based on my readings and direct experiences that these are facts. I am open to the idea that there are exceptions and that I may even be wrong – but I am resistant to such information, as it is inconsistent with everything I know today. I don’t block this out on purpose, but I feel it is reasonable to do so. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof – and if one person told me Xenon was no longer inert in nature I’d consider them a fool unless I heard the same thing from multiple credible sources.
That’s one of those reasons I piss people off so much. It’s not so much the opinion or the way I express it – it’s more the feeling I give people that I am not listening to them, that I don’t respect their opinion. I don’t mean to hurt their feelings, but that is how I feel and I am very poor at hiding my feelings. I'm also growing really imaptient with...well everthing right now. Perhaps the fact I have no children is a good thing.
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Date: 2002-10-03 02:20 pm (UTC)A perspective: someone who is anti-homosexuality may make a jerk of himself trying to "convert" people to his line of thinking, but someone who is anti-homosexual ends up tossing bricks at gay people's heads.
Ah semantics
Date: 2002-10-03 02:53 pm (UTC)