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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
I never said anything was wrong about wearing a patch. I think it is perfectly fine for individuals to express their personal beliefs. I think it is wrong for an organization to force that upon people though. My best friend is a lesbian, a Hindi lesbian at that. I hear everything she goes through with her family, but guess what? While it hurts her, she understands that the culture is against it and she knows changes cannot be forced. They need to come at their own pace.
Just because I am not judging a society because they aren't as tolerant as we claim to be, does not make me a hypocrite.
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It ABSOLUTELY does. You are essentially saying that it's ok for other societies to be intolerant of certain genetic developments, and then ridiculing our society for being intolerant towards that intolerance. It's the definition of hypocrite, plain and simple. As far as changing society goes, change is almost never purely gradual. People force changes constantly. The civil war, women's rights, the troubles... there are constant occurrences of changes being forced when a group is pushed to a point when they are done being treated as lesser people. Your "lesbian Hindi" friend that you've created gives you no weight here.
Besides, I'd still like to hear your theories on the holocaust, on cultural practices in India involving female castration and acid burning, on women being stoned to death, slavery, African genocide, honour killings, chemical weapons in Syria, etc. Tell me point blank that you're ok with all of that because "it's not our place to judge" and I won't harass you about it anymore. Don't dodge the question, answer it directly. Are you ok with allowing all of the above to occur?