Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:58:11 GMT, "Christopher Adams"
<mhacdeinvalidbhandia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Really?  So if I go out and rant about how, say, smokers are evil
>> bastards who ought to be isolated from decent people, every last one
>> of them, just for being somkers, that's going to be frowned on?
>
>Yes, actually. Public criticism of smokers - a more moderate version of
your 
>rarely-seen-in-the-wild strawman - is accepted, generally because people
see 
>a difference between someone who had the temerity to be born with brown 
>skin, a vagina, or to parents with "stein" at the end of their names on
the 
>one hand, and someone who has the temerity to inflict the stench and
health 
>risks of their chosen vice on other people just by indulging in it
nearby.
>
>Which is not to say that I agree with a lot of the rhetoric employed
against 
>smokers . . . just pointing out a little fact.

People of all genertions have "good reasons" why their bigotries
aren't the same as last generations.    Whether it is "I object to
Illegals, not Mexicans", or "it's for their own health", or "their
kind attacked us on 9/11", we have excuses.   Just as our grandparents
had.