I sent her this a minute ago-then immediately blocked her! I HAZ LAST WORD!!!BWAHAHAHA!
(yes...definitely not being mature this evening...)
Message:
I support your right to your inflammatory rhetoric, yes. Have I denied that? I don't think so.
I support the right of the KKK to march, too. But I find it very worrisome for both myself and my nonwhite, non-straight neighbors that our entire neighborhood was leafletted with recruitment flyers for a chapter of said organization last week.
(I do have to say-for people who advocate for English-only, they shouldn't mangle it so badly.)
We are worried for ourselves, as well as our nonwhite neighbors, and are generally keeping the guns handy...because while, yes, you can say anything and not mean violence by it, other people can, and will take your rhetoric as a justification for violence.
(The KKK may take lots of things as a justification for violence, meth will do that to you.)
Personal responsibility...yes, a person is responsible for what they do. And what they say, and post.
I, for one, would never use inflammatory rhetoric that dehumanized another person, not online, not anywhere, not even anonymously, because of the thought that I might inspire someone to act out in violence. Not that I'm a total pacifist-obviously not.
It's because other people may take what I say more seriously than I do, because they aren't as peaceably-minded. This sort of thing happens all the time. I'm a very guilt-ridden person, and if I shoot someone even in the most justifiable circumstances, it's going to haunt me. That won't stop me, but it makes me look for alternatives to violence.
As I was a very serious Christian at one point...I don't believe myself to be taking that Bible quote out of context at all. It implied that Jahweh takes to Himself the right to judge all humans, and that therefore followers of Jesus were not to punish sinners, but instead to be living examples as best they can of God's love, and to allow God to do what it was that God wished to do to that person. As the saying goes, "Let go, let God?"
I draw analogies to when Gautama (Buddha) was officiating a huge argument over a point between some of his followers and another group: He told his students, "Just tell them they are wrong, and let it go."
And that is now what I am about to do to you. You are determined to not understand that what you send out to the world in terms of speech can and will have unforseen consequences. You will not accept that your vitriol can cause indirect harm to others.
You can wreak harm and you may already have done so.
And you refuse to hear it, therefore I'm wasting my time on you, young lady.
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(BTW, we really did have a KKK flyer in everybody's driveway, and we really are keeping the guns loaded...)
