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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (6330)	9/13/2002 5:39:12 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

You know, I can respect a person's right to express such opinions. I may not completely agree with them, but I can respect their right to have those beliefs & express them freely. What I have problems with is being told I must change my ways & how I act....... I must watch what I say or how I say it so that I don't violate the rights of certain individuals, groups, recent immigrants, etc., who can freely express themselves any way they wish....... and I have no right to curb their freedoms whatsoever, even when their actions, words & deeds have a direct affect on me or my way of life. I thought that our country was founded on the principal that every single human being had the exact same rights....... Sadly, I must be mistaken. On that same note, I have problems being forced (myself, as well as others) to accept clearly unfair/disparate treatment in order to allow certain groups to have an unfair advantage over others. And when I dare to call this clear disparate treatment what it really is...... discrimination..... I am immediately labeled a bigot, a racist & troublemaker before one single fact is heard. Oh, & that political correctness stuff?? Why does it often smell of fascism unless you tow the party line? I've always felt that if folks would just cut through the BS & quit expending all their energies on gaining an unfair advantage, making it easier for themselves (their group, political party, etc.), at the expense of others, we would actually get more done with less effort. Everyone would dramatically benefit in so may ways IMVHO. Instead, we expend massive amounts of time & energy supporting whatever cause that will give us that unfair advantage over the other guy. Yet we fail to see the real costs, the polarization, the extremism, what we have done to other real human beings just so a select few can have an unfair advantage. Enough ranting on a Friday afternoon. I won't make any difference anyway. For one thing, I didn't make my points in less than 25 words, so most folks skipped right over this post <gg>. That doesn't include those who already have me on ignore ;-) Besides, change takes effort. But first it takes wisdom to realize that you just might be wrong with what you are currently doing, the courage to admit it, then conviction do something about it.