RE: Some instance I wanted to share with you
October 16, 2016 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2016 at 1:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So too, would be any normalcy that included a non-bigoted point of view. You'll run into a dead end somewhere...and I;ve run into more than once on these forums..where some bigot says to you;
"Well, you're being a bigot" -and it's true. I'm bigoted against bigotry and bigots. I'm not -actually- doing something different. I'm doing the same thing toward a different end. I;m okay with that, I don't have to imagine that it's a flaw of perception that can be or should be fixed. There's no high ground in this to approach it as a problem that needs be fixed or cvan be fixed by our differently bigoted points of view. Call them intractable differences. Learn to work around them, accept that no work will be done, or be comfortable with excluding them. We'd be wasting our time trying to dissuade my grandfather, for example. He hammered on me but the nail never hit home. Worked on my little brother though. He's always about two minutes away from shouting rahowa at the top of his lungs. Pat explanations and suggestions defy and ignore the reality that we live in.
I ignore it when I can, avoid it when confronting it is pointless, and exclude him whenever it's necessary. There will be no kumbayah moment between us. There's no path from where he is to where I am, or vv.
"Well, you're being a bigot" -and it's true. I'm bigoted against bigotry and bigots. I'm not -actually- doing something different. I'm doing the same thing toward a different end. I;m okay with that, I don't have to imagine that it's a flaw of perception that can be or should be fixed. There's no high ground in this to approach it as a problem that needs be fixed or cvan be fixed by our differently bigoted points of view. Call them intractable differences. Learn to work around them, accept that no work will be done, or be comfortable with excluding them. We'd be wasting our time trying to dissuade my grandfather, for example. He hammered on me but the nail never hit home. Worked on my little brother though. He's always about two minutes away from shouting rahowa at the top of his lungs. Pat explanations and suggestions defy and ignore the reality that we live in.
I ignore it when I can, avoid it when confronting it is pointless, and exclude him whenever it's necessary. There will be no kumbayah moment between us. There's no path from where he is to where I am, or vv.
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