Intelligent Discourse

April 5, 2004 by · Leave a Comment
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Apparently, my blog has gotten enough readers that I get hate mail. In response to my post on Gangs of Boston, I received the following comment:

Reading this entry made me pissed off. If you LOVE Bush you’re a brainwashed fool that is NOT lower class, you’re probalby upper middle class to upper class. Go ahead Mr.Conservative and tell me to believe in God and protest abortion while dropping bombs on hundreds of familys. Thousands of little children being killed. Just remember YOU dont go fight, just us middle and low class kids. Send 18 year old poor kids to die so you can get more money into defense and bullshit like that to get rid of JFK. The corruption will not be tolerated. If you, like me, experienced the actual LABOR involved in being a laborer you’d ahve a union too. Fat greedy corporate F*cks think they can trap the little guy. Hey…if it weren’t for the unions there’d be no such thing as a weekend, remember that. If US companies could, every workplace would be a sweatshop working for 12 hours everyday like back pre-unionism…but they just make children in 3rd world countries do it instead. Have fun CORPORATE AMERICA: NEVER FIGHT A BATTLE, LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT FOR YOU. How do you sleep at night..

Let me discuss this point by point.

First, I don’t love Bush. I’m not a Bush supporter. I have voted Democrat in every Presidential election since I turned 18. I’m also not Conservative by any stretch – I favor abortion rights, gay marriage, public education funding, funding for the arts, etc. I’m closest to a Moderate Liberal, though I’m more conservative when it comes to the federal budget. I will admit to being somewhere between middle class and upper class, by the sweat of my brow and my parent’s emphasis on education (Dad was a teacher, school principal and now is a school superintendent).

Second, I NEVER push people on their personal religion. I was raised a Presbyterian, and even ordained a Deacon in my youth. However, I’ve been inactive for almost 10 years (or more) due to negative experiences with power politics in the church. Even while I was active, I never forced my religion on others. In fact, I left religious groups that I was affiliated with over that issue. I am a strong supporter of the separation between church and state.

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Fourth, we disagree on the appropriateness of the war. I expected that – that’s what the original rally was about. I will point out, however, that our current military is all-volunteer. I’m sure that there are people in the military who felt it was their only choice, but the fact is that there are other jobs available to people with the same educational requirement that pay just as well.

Last, you proved my point. Rather than talk about the issues, you have sent me an insult-filled rant about your opinions. And that’s the point that I was making – the protestors at the rally I mentioned above didn’t talk about the issues – they tried to intimidate (physically) the opposition. I would have expected someone reading from a UMass.edu address to be on a higher plane of discussion (and to provide an e-mail address, rather than posting hate mail anonymously).

Oh, well. At least someone’s reading my blog! And I sleep quite well at night as far as these issues are concerned.

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