Skeeter,
With all due respect you are suffering from a form of mental illness that's common to liberals on many subjects.
You have a vision of the world the way you would like it to be and expect the behavior of others to conform to that vision even if that world does not exist yet and behaving the way you want would be irrational in the real world.
The fact of the matter is, VIRTUALLY EVERY educated/intelligent person I know wants that same world, but since it does not exist and most don't suffer from that particular mental illness, they behave rationally for the world they actually do live in.
I feel bad for good hard working people that get inconvenienced because they belong to a group that is statistically associated with something negative (crime, terrorism, hate crime etc...).
But you can't take it personally.
If I walk into a Korean grocer in Flushing Queens and the owner starts following me through the aisles because I'm not Asian like everyone else in the neighborhood, he never met me, and I look kind of ragged that day, I'm not going to be insulted. He doesn't know me and has no way to judge me other than his experience. If he's following me, it's probably because he's had some very bad experiences with a few white ragged looking strangers that came into his store. So be it. I'm not going to confront him, start trouble, start yelling etc... That's just going to reinforce his behavior, accomplish nothing positive, and may even cause a major problem. I'm going to get what I need, pay him, and be as polite as possible. It's not personal. |
