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Offline iri

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Re: Advice on dealing with fear-based, angry, ignorant xenophobes?
« Reply #50 on: Sun, 22 November 2015, 15:01:27 »
EDIT:  Am I condemning entire categories of people by calling them xenophobes?
Yes.

All Syrians refugees should be rejected from the United States.
All three?

Seattle was far more racist than Texas
Oh dear, I'll wear a space suit when in Seattle.
(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

-Ray Bradbury

Offline noisyturtle

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Re: Advice on dealing with fear-based, angry, ignorant xenophobes?
« Reply #51 on: Sun, 22 November 2015, 16:15:59 »
Come on guys, Islam is a religion of peace.