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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
One thing about the Paris attacks that has surprised me is how it exposed so many people I know as bigots, racists, xenophobes and fear mongers. Most of these people are just aquantences, so they are easy enough to cut out of my life. There are several others that will be tougher to deal with like my best friend's parents that I see at work weekly, a couple of my cousins, some colleagues and a few others I have to deal with semi regularly. Really interesting how one attack has 'awakened' so many a-holes.
My wife has deleted over 10 people off her FB because of things they've posted since the attacks.
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Ha ha ha. You realize that it makes absolutely no sense to act hatefully against bigotry. You don't end racism with more racism; you end it by being loving and compassionate to the other side, respectfully trying to help un-skew their perspective because you care about them. Your stance of cutting them out of your life and calling them a-holes is in essence bigotry. In a lot of ways people like you scare me just as much as the bigots as your high level of intolerance paints you as an extremist.
I see that on Facebook at times what you describe from acquaintances and while I don't agree with them I simply choose not to read their stuff as their beliefs not coinciding with mine doesn't change our past relationship and I'm not going to classify them as a-holes for being scared or worried that we could be inviting terrorism into our own country.