"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41859DBE.6020909@hotmail.com...
> FreddieN wrote:
>
> > I don't believe that racism and bigotry has anything to to with genes.
> > Nor do I believe that people make any deliberate attempt to become
racists
> > and bigots.
> > With few exceptions, I think that most people become that way through
either
> > the surrounding
> > culture which either encourages or condones such thinking, or through
events
> > which have
> > occured in a persons life that at the least gives rise to sharp bigoted
> > thinking and at worst
> > trauma from which one can suffer for years.
> >
> > I was in Manhattan on Tuesday September 11, 2001.
>
> So what?

You don't know wht I saw and experienced that day.
So where do you come off with your "so what"???

> Racism, bigotry and anger are your choice and your loss. "Sharp bigoted
> thinking" cannot be blamed on others or on events.
>

No Mr Murphy THEY ARE NOT YOUR CHOICE.
TRAUMA IS NOT A CHOICE.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTION TO TRAUMATIC EVENTS IS NOT A CHOICE.

If I tie you up and torture you for 24 hours, believe me, you are going to
want to kill
me. It will not be a "choice" that you make after careful deliberate
reasoning.