<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>You are absolutely correct, Rose.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:299CF2E1-A663-48E0-9E32-6059DF23401C" alt="image.jpeg" id="299CF2E1-A663-48E0-9E32-6059DF23401C" width="400" height="201"><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Jan 3, 2014, at 5:36 PM, "Rosemary Huskey" <<a href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/11/09/tolerating-intolerance-bigotry.html">Tolerating Intolerance: Deconstructing The ‘Right’ To Bigotry</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Nov 09 2011 Published by <a href="http://archives.politicususa.com/author/lowgenius" title="Posts by John Henry">John Henry</a> under Uncategorized <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">In a recent conversation about homosexuals serving in the military I ran into someone who really pulled out every cliché you can think of to support banning gays from military service.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Paraphrasing one core point, the argument went something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">I don’t have a problem with gays, but some people do. That’s just the real world. It’s all well and good to talk about tolerance, but some people don’t like that and if they don’t want to serve with gays they shouldn’t be forced to. It’s just reality, some people are uncomfortable serving with gays. Sure, all that peace and love stuff sounds good, but this is the real world. I don’t like it any more than you do, but I recognize that’s how things are, and you have to preserve the morale of the unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">This is a favorite line of reasoning among those who wish to preserve and defend institutionalized discrimination of any kind. You can swap out any minority and any social interaction throughout the above paragraph, and it’s a certainty that someone has said it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">“I don’t have a problem with Jews, but some people do. It’s all well and good to talk about tolerance, but some people don’t like that, and if they don’t want to eat with blacks then they shouldn’t be forced to. It’s just reality, some people are uncomfortable working for a woman. “<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">All of these arguments then attempt to invert the offense:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Those people have a right to not like (x), and forcing them to (interact with x) is a violation of their rights. Who are you to judge them for what they believe in? YOU are the one who’s a bigot!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">I know many reading have dealt with these lines of argument before, and I imagine some have even used them, and in both cases you’ve been struck with a sense that this makes no sense at all, but you couldn’t quite say why.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">So let’s break it down, shall we?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">I Got A Right<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">This is the core idea at the heart of much of the above argumentation. “I’ve got a right” to be a bigot, “I’ve got a right” to not work for a woman, “I’ve got a right” to not rent my apartment to a homosexual.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">In the purest sense of the phrase, you actually do have a right to all of these things. You have the right to not work for a woman – you can stay home. You have the right to not rent property to a homosexual – you can not rent property to anyone at all. You have the right to not hire a black person – you can not operate a business.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">But in the more practical sense, you don’t have those rights – Not if you want to work, or be a landlord, or be an employer. Not only don’t you have them, you shouldn’t have them – they are in fact not rights at all, but impositions of privilege.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The classic argument goes, “Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins.” This is a nice, plain-language way of saying that no human being has the right to cause harm to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Refusing to work for a female boss creates an excuse to not have women as bosses – that creates harm against women, both individually and as a class. Refusing to hire a Muslim because they are Muslim creates harm against that person – direct financial harm, emotional harm, and the broader social harm of reinforcing stereotypes of bigotry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Refusing to tolerate bigotry, however, is not a limitation of rights but a consequence of actions. Bigotry is a choice, a behavior, a deliberate decision to impose your prerogatives on others without their consent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">And you say, “But you’re doing the same thing!” It’s not the same thing. Opposing bigotry is decent, humane, loving, productive, and a positive and preservative step for the species. Being a bigot isn’t. There is no argument in favor of bigotry that doesn’t rely on lies or dishonest interpretation of facts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Passive-Aggressive Intolerance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">My friend the eminently quotable Pope Snarky said it best:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">“Tolerating intolerance is not, in fact, tolerance. It is merely the passive-aggressive enabling of intolerance.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">In other words, it’s what people do who really agree with bigotry and discrimination, but they don’t want to admit it, to themselves or other people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That attitude is the same as the kid who stands in the crowd watching bullies beat up on the ugly kid with bad teeth, thinking you’re better than the bullies because you aren’t throwing punches. Oh, sure, you’ll hang out with the ugly kid with bad teeth when there’s nobody around…but when the rest of your baseball team starts calling “horse-face,” you fade into the background. YOU accept that the ugly bad-teeth kid might be a good catcher, but if defending him hurts the morale of the team then that’s just how it is. Sorry, nothing you can do. It can’t be helped – it’s what the people want.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That attitude is the same as the millions of Europeans who looked the other way as the holocaust happened, thinking you’re just doing the pragmatic thing – no sense in fighting against the majority. YOU accept that the Jews may have very good products and prices, but if it affects the performance of the community then that’s just how it is. Your hands are tied.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That attitude is the same as the white southerner who keeps on eating at the whites-only lunch counter…YOU aren’t a bigot, but they’ve got good sandwiches and all your friends are there. YOU accept that the blacks are fine people and do no harm by eating at that lunch counter, but if it’s going to affect the morale of your co-workers to eat somewhere else then that’s just how it is. You’re powerless to do anything about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That attitude is the same as the guy who laughs with his friends at the “n****r” and “f****t” jokes, telling yourself that you’re not really like that but you’re just trying not to hurt your friends’ feelings. You accept that the blacks and homosexuals don’t deserve to be made fun of, but if confronting the people making the jokes will hurt the morale of your social circle, then that’s just how it is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">“I got nothing against the Negros, I just wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Or:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">“I have no problem with the Jews, but if I do business with them my Aryan friends won’t do business with ME…so I have to, you see. It’s not MY fault. I can’t make waves…it will hurt morale and the economy will suffer. I won’t be able to get groceries for my family.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">There’s a word for that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That word is not “honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">That word is “coward.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/11/09/tolerating-intolerance-bigotry.html">http://archives.politicususa.com/2011/11/09/tolerating-intolerance-bigotry.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Sadly, we must go from n insightful essay to ugly ranting right here in Moscow. To illustrate the point read below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/seven-thoughts-on-becoming-a-better-hater.html">7 Thoughts On Becoming a Better Hater</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Posted on <a href="http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/seven-thoughts-on-becoming-a-better-hater.html" title="10:20 am">Wednesday, January 1, 2014</a> by <a href="http://dougwils.com/author/admin" title="View all posts by Douglas Wilson">Douglas Wilson</a> • <a href="http://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/seven-thoughts-on-becoming-a-better-hater.html#comments" title="Comment on 7 Thoughts On Becoming a Better Hater">59 comments</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">My resolution for the new year to become a better hater. But I suppose this requires at least some explanation before itemizing the ways I propose for improving on our hatreds .. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal">4. Learn to hate every form of egalitarianism, feminism, metrosexuality and associated swisheries, pomosexuality, and androgyny. In the image of God He created them, male and female (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Gen.%201.27">Gen. 1:27</a>).”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%">Words fail me when I read a New Year’s Day blog by (a self-ordained pastor) urging hate as a positive attribute. How does this jackassery fit into our community?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%">Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>