"Gosh, Andrew, you've made your feelings about blacks and Hispanics very clear. Do you suppose you could set aside your anger towards them long enough to see why it is in our interest to work with them? No, I am not very hopeful that the black community will, as a whole, help us - there is a serious gap there between what their grandparents achieved and the reality they now live. But we have to try.
The Hispanic community must be sensitized to just how easily this will make them vulnerable, then they will tell their local priest that he's wrong about this one and jump on board."
Keven, is it ever possible for you to comment on any single issue without putting down America and Americans, accusing us of thought crimes, and TEACHING us about the realities we bear witness to every day of our lives?
How do YOU know about what Andrew's feelings are, toward blacks and Hispanics? And, even if you THINK you know, who are you to demand he change them? You have no way of knowing how varying personal experiences, his own cultural identification, or (gasp!) his OWN, unique take on things may have been formed.
And you are totally (and almost constantly) out of line in demanding he, and all the other posters here who don't necessarily share your multi-culti, neo-Marxist point of view, adopt YOUR only way of believing any gay man or progressive may think!
Now, I understand your German references. I also happen to have ties to Germany, and understand contemporary German culture, for better or worse.
Your way of thinking is not necessarily normative there, either.
And the arrogant, puff-up-your-chest, morally outraged approach doesn't play well here, either.
I did that here as well when I was new. It doesn't help matters or get your point across. In fact, the militancy and stridency turns members off.
So, puh-leeze stop TEACHING us about your takes on cross-cultural exchange, your lofty ideals, your inherent progressivism and intellectual superiority, because you're becoming a bad caricature that neither America, Germany, or the rest of the planet can really afford right now!
You are completely out of touch with reality, you have little to no empathy or understanding for anything which is not within your self-contained little bubble, and it's getting to a point where you could not possibly be deriving anything worthwhile to contributing to these threads, the way you do.
Not everything in life is "Scharaffenland". If incremental progress is the best we can manage for now, in the face of more pressing concerns, we can either forsake that for the benefit of becoming "Tom Of Finland" cartoon characters that the nation will rightfully laugh off as nonsensical and not worthy of consideration, or we can work for "change" in a concrete, hands-on, responsible, EXPERIENCED manner and actually have something to show for it at the end of the day.
Rant over.
As always, I apologize in advance for any wounded or insulted feelings the above may have caused.
