Finally Found The Courage of My Convictions and Told Facebook Bigots off!

[BrotherIvan]

66. Totally agree

I'm lucky, I guess, to live in a West Coast bastion of "liberals" who sometimes aren't so liberal but would never spout that crap. I feel for you and everyone else who has crazies in their vicinity or family.

I do believe that because the economy is so bad, they want to fight to the death for the last trickle down droplets. They're pissed that the people they once could look down on, point and say, "Well at least I'm better than they are" are somehow in their perception getting more of the pie. In Mississippi Burning, there's a great scene. Willem Defoe asks Gene Hackman, "Where does it come from, all this hatred?" Gene Hackman tells of when he was a boy in the South. His father was a farmer and the "negro" farmer down the road bought a mule. Gene's dad was always being jibed by his friends about how the black farmer was going to get richer. So one day, the mule ends up dead. Gene Hackman realizes his father did it. His father, ashamed, looks over and says, "If you ain't better than a n--- son, who are you better than?" Gene Hackman ends the scene by saying, "He was just an old man, so full of hate, he didn't know that being poor was what was killing him."

That scene, despite the language, has always come into my mind whenever I hear these bigots. They don't realize that minorities don't take money from their bank accounts. Gays don't do a thing to their marriage or family. And yet they scream persecution if they're not allowed to spread their bigotry and hate. Embarrassed millionaires all, who last time out chose a smirking plutocrat as their standard-bearer, not knowing he hates them just as much. As if they have more in common with silver spoon Mitt than the black person down the street who grew up in similar economic circumstances. We can all point to the pulpits and shows that have brainwashed them into thinking this; it's an old trick. I'm just so surprised that it has caught on so strongly, all packaged in a big corporate bow. It seems that every new controversy these days has some Kristian nutter at the center. I have to visit friends in Europe next week and it's always so embarrassing. They never let up on how stupid and anti-intellectual we are. I keep telling them, We're not all like that! But with our media infecting the rest of the world it's becoming more and more difficult.

I just wish the Rapture would come soon so we can be rid of their sorry asses. Buh bye cretins!