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On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:50:05 -0800, Chambers wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That makes me ashamed to be an American.
>
> Why? The problem isn't that they're American (after all, the article
> states that many Ugandans view homosexuality as a Western import,
> meaning it comes from America, too), but rather that they're intolerant
> hate-mongers.
In the heat of the moment, my immediate reaction was "Americans pushing
their belief systems on others without understanding the dynamics of the
situation" - it's something that large parts of the population do here;
in this case, it's pushing an ideology to the extreme of causing the
deaths of people.
It is perhaps an overgeneralization (or indeed, a generalization based on
a stereotype, which isn't a good thing either), but it is how I felt upon
reading that article. Well, that and physically ill.
>> Maybe it's time to start a march for "death to the intolerant". Of
>> course, to do so, you'd have to be intolerant of intolerance, which is
>> a bit of a problem....
>
> I hate bigots.
Same here.
Jim
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