Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: More on KODA Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:21:50 +0900 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <41859DBE.6020909@hotmail.com> References: <41843DEA.8090406@yahoo.com> <2ujhihF2a7v3mU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de bjLqx7vJJcNLh0Z4K5pzYwlgA7nXR6wlCuKrQ8GgcxQrpcK7Pf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20596 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? If you had been in Enniskillen on November 8th 1987 would you have moved along with the response of "the surrounding culture" http://www.soetrust.co.uk/overview/livingmemorial.htm Or screamed for revenge? > Forgive me if I am not a model of tolerance. Racism, bigotry and anger are your choice and your loss. "Sharp bigoted thinking" cannot be blamed on others or on events. -- Probably the most tightly targetted spam I've ever received - 2004/OCT/21 http://www.clicks.ne.jp/products/kyoninkapro/nyukan/