I'm intolerant of intolerant people - does that make me a hypocrite?

Yessica... said:

I'm in Northern Canada - loads of racists here, but they tend to keep it to themselves unless you're wearing a big meshed-back hat and drive a pick-up.

I do neither of those things...

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Yessica... said:

I'm in Northern Canada - loads of racists here, but they tend to keep it to themselves unless you're wearing a big meshed-back hat and drive a pick-up.

I do neither of those things...

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sunni said:

i find in canada when youre racist you keep it to your self.
i like that

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bu$hleaguer said:

Yeah that's a good thing.

I can't believe the shit in Europe sometimes. Being a soccer fan I always keep
up on the news. In Italy this past year the fans were rocking swastikas and anti Jewish banners at the games, and throwing bananas and making monkey sounds at the black players. Freaking nuts.

Just a few days ago a bunch of German fans showed up at the Germany vs Ghana World Cup match with their faces painted all black and t shirts that said GHANA on 'em.

Then another dude ran onto the field during a game with swastikas all over his headband.

Fucking crazy bastards.

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Yessica... said:

So I'm a hypocrite.

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Yessica... said:

Because there isn't a single sex, race, religion, colour, texture, etc of people that I can ever lump into a group and say "I don't like those types of people".

Except for the.....

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Wilksey said:

Yes.




....people that don't agree with you.

You're no different than any other hater.

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sunni said:

i find in canada when youre racist you keep it to your self.
i like that

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kinetic said:

unless it has to do with the newfies! lol But that would be not racist, more locationist?

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AltarNation said:

Hypocricy can be seen as a form of devil's advocacy... in this sense, we can be a demonstration (mirror) of someone else's contradictory behavior in order to make our point.

However, this unto itself is a form of shadow boxing based in our own moral superiority, (aka, judgement/condemnation) as it also propagates the fear-based mentality (in this case, intolerance) that one is attempting to finger.

We must be the demonstration of love in others' lives in order to convey the message that this form of "teaching" attempts, rather than use this eye for an eye tactic.

Or? Fuck 'em. The choice is in each of our hands. But when we embody the dismissive stance, we strengthen that which we initially attempted to reject.

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Yessica... said:

I really wish I could be more like that...but I don't know if I have it in me...

Have you ever seen the documentary "the most hated family in America"?

I wish I could understand these people, and feel anything for them but anger. But I can't. I wish they were not around to hurt people the way they do.

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