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 What's the problem? New
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Re:  Regarding Catholicism in movies. dangerjudy New
Re:  interesting article, DJ...... dneesh New
Date: Feb 13 2004, 22:08 GMT
From: MArnold
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http://boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/544984
Based on the responses to the above message, many respondents think that if you feel that you are being disrespected for your beliefs, that that is YOUR problem, deal with it. In their words, "Get Over It."
Of course, most of us don't have to deal with being native american or with protecting indigenous cultures, since policies of concentration and extermination have historically been an effective final solution to "problem populations". A larger subset of us have endured cultural, racial, or religious discrimination based on anything from vague stereotype to openly violent intolerance. Maybe an even larger population of BT users has heard stories or has direct experience with denial of access to favorite runs running the gamut from new "No Trespassing" signs posted at a convenient put-in to hysterically screaming, unreasonable, armed toothless freaks who insist on their personal ownership of a public resource to the exclusion of legally rightful users. We're all aberrant "city folk" in some people's eyes regardless of where we really come from. We are simply different, the other, and that is enough for some people to believe that quite exceptional acts against another's legal and human rights can be justified.
It seems to me that a rule of "Get Over It" benefits those who would deny what others believe, think, do, and are. Under such a concept, wrongful loss of resources for a minority population only requires maintenance of active opposition by a few, and that the remainder of a society simply express the convenient indifference institutionalized by the rule.
Mike
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- hell yeah, what he said!! thumper New
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