Re: Hugo Shortlist 2008 (Sawyer)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:19:26 -0700 (PDT), DouhetSukd
<DouhetSukd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mar 26, 8:36 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >Which a good thing.
>>
>> Rearranging the list of things one is encouraged to be intolerant
>> of, is rarely an improvement.  It could be, if it were carefully
>> and thoughtfully done, but it rarely is.
>>
>
>Ah didn't mean to get recursive on this, but I guess it is by nature.
>Lemme see...
>
>Once upon a time it was cool, acceptable and mainstream to be a bigot.
>
>Nowadays, you never know how strangers, even your fellow whites, are
>gonna react when you spout off white supremacist theories.  For me at
>least, that is an improvement.  Do you find that to be a problem
>yourself?

I do find it to be a problem that some people seem to think "bigotry",
"intolerance", and "white supremacism" are synonyms.  Think a bit more
carefully about exactly what you are trying to say, please.


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