Calm yourself! The bigoted comments are thumbed down, and the comment you responded to was hardly the most offensive (in fact, while I don't agree with it, I thought it was pretty rational). And the poll results are actually better than I would have expected, I'm kind of impressed. I don't think a worldwide census would have a 40% approval rate. In what bastion of progressiveness do you live, LA?
Not that the results are ideal, but hey, progress is progress.
Well, when I first put my comment the voting results were much less favorable, and mostly it was the offensive phrasing in the question that irritated me.
My level of calm apparently didn't translate that well, but everybody's passionate about SOMEthing. The comment I replied to I did so because it was rational enough that I thought I could get a legitimate response to. I didn't respond to it because I thought it was the most offensive. Look at Jweezee's comment. Do you really think I could have gotten any kind of intelligent, thought out response by replying to that one?
You're right though, as this poll has been given more time it is good to see that it's starting to show a positive shift in the way people look at things.
Ah, that's fair. And I was kidding about the whole LA thing. Personally I'm very progressive in the sociopolitical sense and (like most) I tend to associate with people who think similarly, so it's a little jarring sometimes to see that most of the world doesn't agree with me. But we're slowly heading towards acceptance, I think.
I honestly don't understand how the most irrelevant things can foster such a dripping, passionate hatred. I really don't get it.
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Calm yourself! The bigoted comments are thumbed down, and the comment you responded to was hardly the most offensive (in fact, while I don't agree with it, I thought it was pretty rational). And the poll results are actually better than I would have expected, I'm kind of impressed. I don't think a worldwide census would have a 40% approval rate. In what bastion of progressiveness do you live, LA?
Not that the results are ideal, but hey, progress is progress.
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Well, when I first put my comment the voting results were much less favorable, and mostly it was the offensive phrasing in the question that irritated me.
My level of calm apparently didn't translate that well, but everybody's passionate about SOMEthing. The comment I replied to I did so because it was rational enough that I thought I could get a legitimate response to. I didn't respond to it because I thought it was the most offensive. Look at Jweezee's comment. Do you really think I could have gotten any kind of intelligent, thought out response by replying to that one?
You're right though, as this poll has been given more time it is good to see that it's starting to show a positive shift in the way people look at things.
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Ah, that's fair. And I was kidding about the whole LA thing. Personally I'm very progressive in the sociopolitical sense and (like most) I tend to associate with people who think similarly, so it's a little jarring sometimes to see that most of the world doesn't agree with me. But we're slowly heading towards acceptance, I think.
I honestly don't understand how the most irrelevant things can foster such a dripping, passionate hatred. I really don't get it.