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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (194)	7/29/2006 1:00:45 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1695

People who hate another group often make it obvious. It's hard to hide that kind of hate. People who hate women tend to say angry irrational things about them, and to them, and tell jokes that are clearly misogynistic. People who hate blacks do similar sorts of things, about blacks. Hate is often close to the surface, and seems to travel with anger- and people who hate a group tend to be obvious, because their hate makes them lump in all sorts of things with the hated group, often illogically. Equating that with men who prefer blondes is just nonsensical- now you could equate it with men who can't stand brunettes; who hate them. You can't take people to court because they hate blacks, or women, or brunettes, but you don't have to approve of the hate either. Just because our society doesn't make something criminal, doesn't make it a good thing. Hate and intolerance aimed at groups of people who are born into a group is rarely a good thing. I gave a specific example of people who can't stand blacks. That was a given in my hypothetical. You can, of course, change the hypothetical, but then you're just playing games, imo. I don't find that particularly interesting- but other people here may want to play.