This kind of crap drives me NUTS.
Why is it OK to write coded language (or straight-up bigoted language) about some groups here at DKos and on other sites/conversations with so-called "liberals" or "progressives"? Are our ideals of tolerance straight out the door if we've been personally offended by one member of a particular group? CUT THE CRAP.
This comment was left in the rec-list diary defending Jehovah's Witnesses. You are allowed, within your rights, and should be tolerated as well if you greatly disagree with the diarist.
But, THIS SHIT:
I worked with two Jehovah's Witnesses on a 6-week (14+ / 0-)
project, and while at first I thought that they were decent workers, they seemed to do a lot
of urging, proselytizing, bringing up doctrine in big and subtle ways, etc. Ditto for a Mormon I once worked with.
It's the fanatical, obsessive posture that bothers people.
They can't just "be with you" as you are without trying to change you in some way. And over time, frankly, you simply don't want to be around them.
IS NOT OK.
Nice, right from Bill O'Reilly's playbook. Cool anecdote to justify your bigotry, bro.
Not only is not OK, but it's hypocritically uprated and supported by folks who would WRIST-SNAPPINGLY-HR (and rightly so)the comment if we just changed a couple of words:
I worked with two Muslims/Jews on a 6-week (14+ / 0-)
project, and while at first I thought that they were decent workers, they seemed to do a lot
of urging, proselytizing, bringing up doctrine in big and subtle ways, etc. Ditto for a Muslim/Jew I once worked with.
It's the fanatical, obsessive posture that bothers people.
They can't just "be with you" as you are without trying to change you in some way. And over time, frankly, you simply don't want to be around them.
Religion is cultural for many people, especially if they were raised in a religiously-conservative household...to many of the religious, it is no more separable from who they are than their race. You can criticize their methods, their politics (if they delve into it, which is the case for the majority of Mormons), their hypocrisies, whatever....but don't get bigoted, you bigot.
Even MORE BOTHERSOME, are people uprating/joining on this SHIT that ALSO uprate/comment/write about the "absolute right" to yell/march/camp/sit/protest/canvass anywhere, anytime they want to, because it's for a cause THEY believe in.
But oh shit, YOU BETTER GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Shape the hell up, especially if you're a whiner about some kossacks not being pure enough for your taste....your own water has some poisonous shit in it.
/rant
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