Friday, March 30, 2007
Rational debate
Terrific post at the Anchoress in which she discusses reactions to some of her thoughts and opinions. I entirely, thoroughly, totally concur that clear thinking does not necessarily mean one comes down on the obviously left or right side (politically speaking) of a topic, and even more that:
All one can do - really - is try to hold on to one’s own capacity for kindness and see one’s humanity reflected in another.
What’s that old quote: Be kind - for everyone you meet is engaged in a mighty struggle. You don’t have to have any religion at all to take that good advice.
Read the whole thing.

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Blogger DADvocate — at 11:33 PM, March 30, 2007:
Excellent advice. Reminds me of a story I read in a news magazine years ago. A black man with a white wife became angry at a white man because he thought the white man was looking at him and his wife disapprovingly. It turned out the white man's wife was black.

One of the things I hate to hear the most is the "You don't know what it's like to be black, a woman, gay, poor, short, tall, green, etc." But some how, these people always seem to think they know what it's like to be me.
 

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