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tazzygirl -> RE: How to overcome being easily offended (9/13/2010 4:13:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Elisabella
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
I dont feel the mosque is an injustice to anyone. Nor do i imply that.
My point was .. and still is... simple.
You feel that people dont have a right to feel offended by the placement of the mosque.
In colonial days, many felt that abolitionists didnt have the right to feel offended over the ownership of blacks because they were, after all, merely property.
In the same aspect, abolitionists didnt understand the offended feelings of the slave owners when they complained about being told what they could and could not do with property.
Men in the victoria era didnt understand the complaints by women. The sufferage movement was based upon the offended feelings related to women. Men believed women should have been happy with being taken care of all the time.
Offended feelings have caused major changes in our society. They have caused wars, healed wounds, and brought about massive social changes.
I think your insistence on how to overcome those feelings is way off course.
No. Just no.
Neither of those movements was based on "sensitivity" or "being offended." They were based on human rights, justice, and equality. If women tried to get the vote using nothing more than "not letting women vote is terribly insensitive, I know the law says you don't have to let me vote but I really do think you should be sensitive to my feelings about this matter" like people are doing with this they'd rightly have been laughed at.
And you're wrong. I think people DO have the right to feel offended by this. I just don't see how it's in their best interest to refuse to try to work past those feelings.
In both cases, it started with a feeling that they were being treated as less than human in spite of the social belief that some were less than human, and some were less than men. Recall at the time blacks were seen as nothing close to human... and women still arent considered, by some, as being equal to a man.
As far as your comment about being insensitive to the rights of women to vote... if it werent for some men believing women had the right to vote, women never would have won that right. The same with blacks freedom or their right to vote.
Now, remember that when i say the following... no one is listening to those who feel this mosque doesnt belong. They are all basically being told to "get over it". Is anyone actually listening to those people? Maybe they are wrong in their belief that the mosque should not be built... but it is their belief. Who is helping them to overcome their issues? They are being told its there, like it or not. Well, they dont like it.. now what? Are their cries to be remembered in all of this to be ignored?
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