Labeling

[wtnhunt]

Really am a bit disappointed I guess in how some members here are so quick pass judgement on others based on a comment they maybe might not fully understand. This is nothing new, but the recent post on homosexuality brings this back up once again.

It amazes me how some people in this country see around them what goes on and how they ignore it or do not acknowledge it. Or I guess in some parts maybe it does not happen or is not as visible and others who simply point it out because they acknowledge it and see it for what it is are quickly labeled as a racist or a bigot just because they have the guts to stand up and say something about it. In this world today it truly is a shame that many have become afraid to say anything negative associated to any race other than whites.

There have been many posts in here over the past that have come from many members that could be construed in a way to make them look like hypocrites or possibly even as racists themselves if a person really wanted to, but my intentions in this are not to point any fingers, but instead are to remind everyone to remember before labeling others to make sure you understand what the person is getting at before jumping to conclusions and labeling them.

While I personally don't hate any race or anyone for their preferences, I have my own opinions of what is right and what is wrong. Some will agree some will not, don't think if they disagree that gives them or me the right to label them. I do however speak my mind and see things for how they are, and often times am speaking of what I have seen where I have lived, which has been mostly in Florida and Tennessee, I have seen several other parts of this country and also lived in southern California for nearly 8 years of my life, but there are several places I have never been, and things there may very well be different in those places than places I have lived.

Generally speaking there is a lot of hate out there, and it is not like some in here like to think. There are a lot of good hard working honrable people out there of all races, blacks, hispanics, and even arabs, however there is a lot of hate and believe it or not there is still a feeling in some parts of this country by many members of one race that someone still owes them based on how their race was treated years ago, by their own ancestors and by traders. Obviously that is not all and we should not make presumptions on an entire race based on that, however when we acknowledge and see it, it does not make one a racist for pointing out what they see, nor does it make them a racist to acknowledge that living conditions, crime, and poverty have direct link in many places.

When we start to think of someone as a racist based on an honest comment they make about what they see where they are or if we joke about someone else based on their nationality or race, are we really any better? Just something for us all to think about before labeling another.

[OJR]

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That is one of the biggest problems in this county is that we have to put a "label" on every blasted thing!

If we would forget that and just accept people for what they are, it would be so much easier.

I try my best not to judge anyone. If however, a person does something that hurts me or my family then I will let that person know how I feel and if it continues, I will not have anything to do with them! I don't "label" them, I just ignore them, move on and forget they exist!!

[ParrotHead]

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We live in a nauseatingly confessional society. But it wasn't always that way. There was a time when you wouldn't dream of telling a guy you just met that you were an alcoholic. Unless, of course, you met the guy because you had driven your car into his swimming pool.

True, thanks to our tight-lipped Puritan ancestors with their scarlet letters and witch hunts, we've always been a nation obsessed with the doings of others. In the past, however, we justified our pejorative meddling with some lame, moralistic claptrap about "upholding community standards." Well, the fact is, folks, community standards have now deteriorated with no thanks to our media saturated culture we just simply can’t seem to mind our own business.

What I can't fathom are the people who auction off their privacy on the open market. You can go online now and actually watch mutants and cyber geeks who record every nanosecond of their lives - every snore, every burp, every restraining order filed against them - and beam it out over the Internet. It all raises the interesting philosophical question: How can you broadcast your life when you don't have a life to begin with?

I have a theory: I think we're far less evolved ourselves. I know we consider ourselves to be very nineties creatures, we take it all in, we deal with it, we put it back out. We are just the hippest little creatures, but you know something? I think in a deep gut level we're scared . We live in a madhouse and it's brought into our living rooms on a day-to-day level via CNN.

And yet this is what it's come to. This is what it's come to in contemporary America. Everybody's broken off into these petulant little tribes. Everybody walks the perimeter of their own damaged esteem ever-vigilant against an incursion by They, Them or The Other Guys. Everybody's touchy and everybody's encouraged to be touchy, everybody that is . . . except me: the White Anglo-Saxon male. I'm everybody's enemy these days. Black people think I'm oppressive and physically deficient. Women think I'm oafish . Gay people think I'm overly macho and latently homosexual. And Asians think I'm lazy and stupid. Hey, you think you've got an ax to grind? I'm Paul Bunyan over here.

Look, we have to become more tolerant of others. Listen, I will accept anyone's lifestyle, appearance, belief or idiosyncrasy just as long as they don't ask me to pay for it. What I do object to are fringe groups who go beyond the notion of tolerance and demand our approval.

Tolerance does not mean you agree with everything that other people say, or that you subordinate your own best instincts to the tyranny of mass opinion. It simply means you pretend not to know that everyone on the planet but you is a total moron.

The most unforgivable thing about intolerance is, by its inherent assumption that one group, belief or lifestyle is superior to another, it fails to take into account the ultimate truth which binds us all, black and white, gay and straight, Republican and Democrat, Arab and Israeli, Hindu and Muslim, Catholic and Protestant, Serb and Croat, Hutu and Tutsi: the fact that, at the end of the day, we are all equal pains-in-the-butt in the eyes of the Lord.

[popgun]

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Dennis Miller Rants and Monologues are copyrighted material.

Can't you reply with something original, or at least give the writer credit?

You could just change your screen name to copy/paste.

Dennis Miller would be known in the Radio Industry as a Shock Jock. (I don't know what you call people like this on TV)

It is his job to stir up his audience, even to the point of crudeness and the use of foul language.

I apologize to you ParrotHead for singling you out, but if you are going to copy/paste someone else’s work you should read it well and clean it up first.

And if you are indeed, Dennis Miller, the author of this reply, I doubly apologize, and feel sorry for you at the same time.

I am not a member of the copyright police.

I am not a moderator.

I am not a morals educator.

And I already know this is none of my business.

I will say no more.

....popgun

[buckee]

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[johnf]

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[horst]

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Good post Wtn.Ive pretty much stopped posting in the political room here alltogether because of this very reason, and i see it in a lot of other sites as well.If you have a different opinion then the popular mindset in these places its all but impossible to carry on a intelligent conversation before the labels start flying and your branded as a liberal, homo, racist, pacifist, or any of a million other catch phrases that are rampant in todays world.Drag religion into the mix and it makes the problem much worse.Instead of sharing thoughts, ideas, and opinions people often resort to labeling anyone that has a opinion different from thier own.Its very difficult to find anyone that can stay open minded in the face of partisanship, demoninations, races, political correctness, and differing cultures.Im just as guilty as anyone else in doing this but Im trying to get past it and accept the fact everyones going to view things differently.One belief or opinion doesnt make someone something thier not.