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Hate speech. Gun access. Fundamentalism of all sorts. (Original Post) uppityperson Jun 2016 OP
Hatred, religious fanaticism, and bigotry must be frowned upon meow2u3 Jun 2016 #1
And they worry about bathroom bs uppityperson Jun 2016 #2
It's the circle of shit and it screws us all. Initech Jun 2016 #3

meow2u3

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1. Hatred, religious fanaticism, and bigotry must be frowned upon
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 02:22 PM
Jun 2016

Make--and keep--fundamentalists social pariahs. Push them back into their remote backwater towns.

Make and keep avowed bigots social pariahs. This includes white supremacists, anti-government nuts, CT loonies, and groups organized against women's and minority rights.

Their radical intolerance is not welcome in our society. Society needs to treat such people the way they've treated women and minorities for eons.

There is no legal way to control this kind of hate, but there is social control. We have to make religious fundamentalism socially unacceptable. This way, we can keep the nut jobs on the fringes of society where they belong. Question is, how do we ostracize privileged fanatics? See to it that they never get in positions of authority? We have our work cut out for us.

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