Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 12:21 PM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
US out of UN, UN out of US
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
7 Comments:
Choking up here. Wow.
great video... serves as a reminder that prejudice is rampant.....
back in 2004 was working with an out of state dude doing door-to-door for Kerry Edwards. Told him to meet me at a bar on the south side (working class neighborhood) when I got there he said the bar would not serve him because he had a Dem button on.. and I said "fuck that shit" it was an inter5esting nigh.... kudos to the guy in the baseball hat... sometimes right is just plain right..
I'm wondering if the differences in responses from the public between small town Texas and NYC might be the relative anonymity of living within a large urban population versus the more "communal" atmosphere of a small town?
We hear stories of people being mugged or in medical emergencies in cities being ignored, for example... that "I don't want to get involved" syndrome. Perhaps this accounts for the difference in whether third-parties feel compelled to step up to the place during incidents of adversity. Interesting sociological experiment.
LP: It's encouraging.
Okjimm: Though not as rampant as we thought, apparently.
RtS: Possibly, although Farmers Branch is part of the DFW metroplex, which is also a pretty big urban area. It would be interesting to try this in a variety of settings around the country.
I had to come back and watch that again.
I am old enough to remember anti-catholic sentiment when I was growing up (neighbor kid couldn't play with us 'cause we were Catholic)
... and I thought that went away.
My Grandmother,(old German immigrant) had a deep bias against Native Americans (grew up near a reservation)... and I thought racial discrimination was going away.
It seems that it is still around... that there is a whole class of folks that HAS to find another group to discriminate against.
Things are better.. in some areas significantly, but it is still all around us. They last 'brand' of conservatives seem bent on bringing back religious intolerance, racial discrimination, sexual stereo-typing.
Sometimes it depresses me. Good thing there is beer.
My niece and her partner raised two perfectly well-adjusted girls, both of whom recently graduated from college with honors and are working in fulfilling jobs.
Acceptance was difficult for the older relatives, but when they, over the years, observed my niece's and her loving partner's devotion to those girls, and the lively, intellectually stimulating environment they created for them, all fears melted away and full acceptance to this non-traditional family followed. It's just a non-issue now.
I had fun recently when they invited me to a dance where I and one other woman were the only straight females there. I had a great time, and danced myself silly with anyone who asked me to.
Okjimm: Fortunately, there is a category of people we can all legitimately feel superior to: bigots.
SK: In my experience, this is the most effective path to the eradication of prejudice -- getting to know people as individuals, after which efforts to demonize them just fall flat.
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