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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jan 2013
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Teamsters protect Boston bombing victim's funeral.
On 4/24/2013 10:01 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 4/24/13 9:58 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...
On 4/24/2013 8:56 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:20:47 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:
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To understand what the fuss is about I think you have to put yourself
in the minority view for a minute. For example, what if you
lived in
a town that had an Islamic majority, and everywhere you went there
were Islamic religious symbols on display. After a while you would
probably come around to the view that Islam was the "official"
religion and that everything else,
Well, not if you were in America and ever went to school..
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I think you're forgetting that the purpose of this exercise is to put
yourself in someone else's shoes for a moment. One of the big issues
is that the parents in "other" religions resent having their children
surrounded by christian religious symbols. I think that's
understandable.
And I think it's bull****... We had Christian and Jewish symbols all of
my life in school... Even Kwanza after they invented it. And no kid is
"offended" by a shiny tree or the Menorah, honest adults aren't
either... unless they are already bigoted and predetermined to hate...
Would you or others have been "offended" if someone had put a pagan
symbol beside your cross on the wall? I'll bet so.
If it was an obvious attempt to mock my free speech, but those with no
moral core wouldn't see it that way. I noted before, post your symbols,
on your holidays, but mocking and bullying is not ok.
My guess is that PsychoSnotty spent most of his school days in
detention, and the only thing in the room was the blackboard on which he
had to write 100 times a day, "I will stop behaving like a horse's ass."
Projecting again harry...
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