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In reply to the discussion: George Takei vs. Bill Maher [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)You can frame your sentences however you wish. But don't get angry when others call you on your comments.
I did not say, or even suggest, that you "cut off everyone that is a bigot." But I will call you out if I choose when you dismiss someone's bigotry as just some kind of quirk that doesn't mean much because they hold other opinions that aren't bigoted. And I will certainly challenge anyone who claims that someone is a bigot but otherwise is a liberal, since, in my view, the two are completely incompatible and it is absolutely impossible to be both a liberal and a bigot.
As I said, in my view, being a bigot is a dealbreaker. I will not defend a bigot or dismiss their views as no big deal because they agree with me on other things. I'm sure that most bigots share with me some view of something. Rudolf Giuliani has gay friends. So what? Adolf Hitler loved animals. So what?
It all goes to what's important to you. Some people won't even hold a conversation, much less make friends or have a relationship with anyone who cheers on a rival baseball team. I couldn't care less about that. But I do care when people proudly espouse bigotry toward other races, nationalities or religions. And, if they do, I will call them on it and not give them a pass because they have some other qualities I like. And I suspect that if Maher constantly attacked, smeared and berated YOUR religion or race, you would not be quite so tolerant, defensive or him, or quick to claim he's a liberal, regardless how many other of his views you happened to agree with, and, you, too, would engage in what you erroneously refer to as "purist judgment."
As I said, it all goes to what's important to you.