FreddieN wrote:
> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4185BA74.4040407@yahoo.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.
>> >
>>If you have such a strong desire for revenge, join the military and
>>you'll at least have the possibility of doing something. Otherwise
>>you're just sitting around complaining.
>>
> 
> 
> Please show me where I stated that I wanted revenge.
> 
Usually that goes hand in hand with hatred.

> 
>> > I was in Manhattan on Tuesday September 11, 2001. Forgive me if I am
>> > not a model of tolerance.
>> >
>>So? There are thousands of young muslims who have been killed or had
>>their lives otherwise destroyed by the policies of the US and our
>>allies. By your definition of what justifies racism/prejudice they are
>>right to hate us. That puts us in a perpetual downward spiral of hatred.
>>
> 
> 
> Oh so it's OK byn you, that they hate us?
> But it's not OK that I hate them?
> 
Nope. Quite the opposite, if you'd carefully read what I wrote.

John W.