(October 6, 2011 at 5:54 pm)salty Wrote: Really, it's very tiring for people to think that they could ever understand what it's like to experience racism (unless they have) and that I enjoy seeing any of you mentioing the KKK, which I had to watch out for while I was in school in Indiana. Let's place the racial situations behind us, because it will certainly have this thread shut down.
No one's saying they understand what it's like to experience racism, but the reason it is mentioned is because prejudice is prejudice, no matter how much you dress it up. If you don't like your views on homosexuality being compared to racism, perhaps it is time to rethink your position.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell