RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
May 31, 2017 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2017 at 10:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I laugh riotously when bigots get down to the business of being bigoted. I appreciate that some people probably think I'm laughing at their bigoted jokes, for example..... (plenty of the bigots think so).
I'm actually laughing at -them-, the sheer unthinking effrontery it takes to open up one's bigoted self to another person makes me giggle. Can't help it. It is true that, in some cases, amidst the unfiltered stream of idiocy those people offer up..I can pick out -something- I agree with. I would understand if a person saw me laughing, and then agreeing with that thing..and on that basis concluded that I was agreeing with bigotry, and was, effectively, a bigot myself. That's probably what gave me social cover in the land of the burning cross, you know..other than my being the right shade of lipstick.
Ultimately, I suppose a person could place any given positive reaction to bigotry on a scale of antipathy, apathy, and insensitivity. Racists/bigots comprise the first two categories. I don't think that everyone in the third category is a racist/bigot. I;d put harris performance, in that clip, in the third category. Perhaps made to seem more grave by proximity to a person who is absolutely in the first.
I'm actually laughing at -them-, the sheer unthinking effrontery it takes to open up one's bigoted self to another person makes me giggle. Can't help it. It is true that, in some cases, amidst the unfiltered stream of idiocy those people offer up..I can pick out -something- I agree with. I would understand if a person saw me laughing, and then agreeing with that thing..and on that basis concluded that I was agreeing with bigotry, and was, effectively, a bigot myself. That's probably what gave me social cover in the land of the burning cross, you know..other than my being the right shade of lipstick.
Ultimately, I suppose a person could place any given positive reaction to bigotry on a scale of antipathy, apathy, and insensitivity. Racists/bigots comprise the first two categories. I don't think that everyone in the third category is a racist/bigot. I;d put harris performance, in that clip, in the third category. Perhaps made to seem more grave by proximity to a person who is absolutely in the first.
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