Recently, a mother and daughter were attacked in a New York City restaurant by at least three people who mistook them for a lesbian couple.
Oops?
No one has been arrested yet but cops have blurry photos of a white man and two white women. The victim's were Hispanic. Being attacked in a Korean restaurant for any reason was probably the last thing the Santiago women expected but they believed the attackers were drunk. And in their slurred minds, they thought the mother and daughter were lesbians and needed to be punished for that.
These days perception seems to be 9/10's of life. Even the otherwise fairly wonderful Pope Francis thinks that conscientious objectors like Kim Davis should be allowed to inject their faith into any level of government.
The old guy was doing sooooo good too. Let's face it- he's a likable spokesperson but, the product is not exactly new and improved, just the presentation.
Francis, of course, is not at all calling for violence against anyone, even against the gays his church does not approve of, but, you have to admit that almost any religion is definitely an enabler. If you can discriminate against people because your god seems to say you can, then your country is a de facto theocracy. Why would one expect that discrimination stops right there before things get violent? Discrimination is the foundation for violence.
This trio of miscreants can explain that they attacked the mother and daughter because they thought they were gay but, that's not the stay-out-of-jail-card that some on the right might want it to be. Not yet. They keep warning us about the danger of Sharia Law happening here because they want Christian Law happening here instead. What they don't tell you is they are like Coke and Pepsi. Either one is refreshing in moderation but, not at all healthy in frequent use.
Thinking bad about someone does not make them bad. It does not mean that they are how you perceive them to be. The problem often exists in your own mind and in the quest to find others who *think* like you do, and all too often in life it winds up as lynchings (as in America) or full scale holocausts as in Germany in the 30's and 40's. But, it all begins in the not-so-perceptive eye of the myopic beholder. It all begins with you and I.
2 comments:
I want you to know that someone sent me the EEE stuff and the deadbeat Dad thing over a week ago. Anyone could have written about the deadbeat Dad thing I didn't consider that great evidence against you. The EEE thing - I really don't care. Knowing this I still posted back to you. I truly hope that you never withheld child support and the stuff about GEM is water under the bridge. I'm just tired of El's Kitchen. I'll talk politics all day. I'll probably go back and post on Hoosie's Thread.
With so many people that obviously don't like you why even post on El's thread? My advice would be move on.
Hang in there.
BTW - I'm not turning to the dark side.
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