[Vision2020] Prediction/pin drop

[Garrett Clevenger]

If I boycotted places because of people that didn't
strictly jive with me, I'd be hungry and living in a
cave...

Everybody has the potential to push their passion into
fanaticism.  It seems better to have interaction than
separatism.

I wonder what would happen if we put the boycott
leader gal and the "bigot" sign guy together in a room
for 24 hours?  Any guesses?


gclev



[Vision2020] Prediction/pin drop

Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com 
Mon Nov 5 22:07:58 PST 2007
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At the risk of being shown to be an idiot because I
don't know the whole 
story...

I hate this kind of thing.  Each person can, of
course, do their 
business with whomever they wish.  But to boycott
groups merely because 
of their religious beliefs, no matter how vile or
inhumane or pasee' or 
gauche or whatever it is you dislike about them is
(imho) wrong.  
Freedom of religion means that even the people you
don't like get to 
worship as they wish.  Hells, *especially* the people
you don't like.

If you are going to draw a line, draw it at the action
level, not at the 
belief level.  Have any of these people done anything
wrong other than 
to believe as they wish?  Don't they have that right? 
Are they 
sacrificing babies or something?  Defiling kittens? 
Suggesting that 
their children go play in the road?  Listening to
Britney Spears?

I, for one, don't care to know what the people I do
business with 
believe unless I know them well.

I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I truly
believe that people 
should have the right to believe as they wish.  And
before all the 
common reasons get trotted out again, do any of these
people have 
anything to do with Sitler, the founding of New St.
Andrews, whatever 
the fuss was with boarding houses, or the
rehistorification of the 
South?  And if a few of them do, is that grounds for
trying to run them 
out of business?  For trying to make them go broke? 
You don't owe them 
a living, but you do owe them a fair chance regardless
of what you think 
about whatever unseen forces they worship. 

My fervor on this topic probably has something to do
with the fact that 
I hold beliefs that most people don't agree with. 

Paul

g. crabtree wrote:
> A point of clarification, if I may. No unsupported
rumors are being 
> spread here. Please contact Kenna Eaton at the Co-op
(882-8537) for 
> confirmation of the details concerning this sordid
event or see:
>  
>
http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2007/11/05/55872.aspx
>  
>  The point of bringing this matter to light is not
to portray the 
> Co-op or its management in a bad light but to reveal
a certain mind 
> set that is all too common amongst a certain element
that centers 
> itself there. A group that is quick to shriek when
the word bigot is 
> used when referring to themselves all the while
quietly bearing the 
> contention out in secret.
>  
> g
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