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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (44597)	8/23/2004 12:34:50 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 81568

I have a story similar to that too. During the war, a friend of an older friend of mine returned from the war. He was a totally changed person, as you might expect. But what I found most disturbing was his referring to the Vietnamese-- all Vietnamese-- as "gooks", dehumanizing them, and saying he'd killed a bunch and wanted to go back and kill more. He did go back. I never saw him again. But the way he talked about the Vietnamese, then later my watching the baby lift during the fall of Saigon, made a deep impression on me. When I became an adult and got married, I wanted to adopt a Vietnamese child. Unfortunately, the country was closed to foreign adoption at that time. So I adopted a Korean orphan. And she still was called a gook. (Until I set the ignorant straight, that is. -g) I think no matter how threatened we feel by fundamentalist Islam-- and I certainly think we should feel threatened, to cast all Muslims as the enemy, to call them disparaging names, is a dangerous kind of dehumanization. We can defend our country without resorting to that, I believe. And I believe Kerry can lead the way.