Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________mixqec

Wound Up wrote:

> indago wrote:
>
>> 041108 2142 - Wound Up posted:
>>
>>
>>> Daniel J. Stern wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Wound Up wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No one deserves to be the target of blind, ideological, prejudicial
>>>>> hate.
>>>>
>>>> ...unless they're, y'know, gay and living in the YSM (Yoonaad'd
>>>> States of
>>>> Mairca).
>>>
>>> Homosexuality does not serve as an acceptable excuse for being the
>>> target of hatred
>>
>> Well, then, maybe derision???
>
> That's up to you. I can write derisive hatred very well. I choose not
> to, because I don't think it's deserved, warranted, or appropriate.
>
> I will never understand it, but I know it's not a question of some "vile
> lifestyle choice". Believe me, the gay friends I've had all said "it
> would have been much easier to grow up, and know you were straight".
> Want to throw an insult at me? Well, I grew up (ironic term) in a more
> heterogeneous culture than a lot of people. I knew people from many
> different walks of life, and had friends from many of them.

I don't think "heterogeneous" means what you think it means.