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Thread #75063   Message #1330588
Posted By: CarolC
17-Nov-04 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Obit: More Muslim intolerance?
Subject: RE: Obit: More Muslim intolerence?
It has nothing whatever to do with suggesting that two wrongs make a right, Wolfgang. There are people on this thread, and in the world generally, who are practicing bigotry towards a whole group of people because of the actions of some of that group, ignoring completely the good people of that group, and ignoring completely the wrongs committed by the groups to which they themselves belong.

When people only focus on the wrongs committed by one group of people, ignoring all of the good that group is responsible for, and they ignore all of the bad things done by other groups, including their own, focusing only on what they perceive to be the good those other groups have done, they are engaging in bigotry and scapegoating. Especially when a genetic factor is introduced into the equation.

We need to nip that sort of thing in the bud before it becomes another holocaust, only with a different group of people serving as the scapegoats.