We cannot win by hating our fellow Americans.

[BlueKota]

197. I am a blue dot in a red neck area in a blue state

There are plenty who hold prejudice for others for no other reason than they were born differently than them. There are even those in my own extended family who are like that.

Through church, (yes it had some good sides), high-school, and college, and yes even TV, I still grew up managing to strongly believe that wanting to harm other people for being born a certain color, ethnicity, or gender was just devoid of reason. There are people who willingly chose to do bad things to others in every race, creed and gender on earth.

It's those people who know it's not right to hurt others when they haven't done anything to them, who choose to hurt them anyway that I have issues with. I am sure a lot of dictators and serial killers had bad adult examples and were traumatized in their life, but it's not an excuse to hurt others who did nothing to harm them. Self defense against someone who is actually trying to harm you or someone else is different. To me that is fair.

It's like Musk. Yes he was raised under Apartheid, but he had plenty of opportunities to educate himself, and chose a different path but he willingly chooses to be an asshole now. He wants to leave destitute anyone who wasn't born with the same skin color or gender appendage as him. He doesn't get a pass for that from me. He should quit whining about the consequences of his own actions.