toolsofthetrade said:
yer too late for that girl.
go watch some documentaries or films based on certain periods in the past... read some books and talk to people.
go live some place on the other side of the world where you totally feel out of harmony with the ppl or the customs surrounding you. be born under a non-christian religious banner or try having ancestors that have been subject of slavery or genocide throughout the centuries.
then come back and tell everyone that you still support the words you numbly copied, words based on fear. words lacking any kind of factual or constructive substance. its just empty.
i TOTALLY agree with what pieter says here. have you ever been exposed to anything outside your own town, have you ever been displaced among people and customs that are unfamiliar to you.
opinions are and should be based on experience, you agree with this because you draw on examples from schoolwere a black kid beat on a white kid or whatever, so you use experience to form your racist opinion. but, you will notice how base your opinions on experiences like this one which are already racist. how can you form a true opinion of your own if you are only looking at situations were there is already a divide?
i am only 18 so i dont speak as teh voice of wisdom here, but i think you are a little too young to have such strong convictions. it suggests that they are more likely based on tradition and stigma than on genuine experience of the world and other cultures.
just because yer ma knows a jew or two doesnt make you or her an expert on jewish tradition or fit to judge their place in society or on a world scale.
you seem to elevate your own worth, have you ever considered that you just like every other person of ethnic variety, are such a spec of dust, a nothing on the grand scale of things - you, as one of these minute particals, have no qualifications to judge others. i am not judging you either before you misinterpret, i am merely trying to make you question the basis of your opinions. id quite like you to pm me actually, i wont rant at you or anything and i am quite willing to accept any opinion if i deem it based on good grounds, a well constructed argument, but i cant see how this is well constructed atm, i maybe wrong thought, pm me.