The Bastardization of what Bigotry is

I’ve heard so many countless people whine that they’re being victimized of bigoted attacks because of other people’s criticism of choices that they’ve made for themselves.

Bigotry, at least the way I see it, is a sweeping and mindless attack made to intentionally hurt a group of people because of how or where they were born and/or an unwilling victim of circumstances entirely out of their control. It has everything to do with whether or not one can actively CHANGE their circumstances.

• Can someone control where they were born?
• Can someone control homosexuality?
• Can someone control the color of their skin?
• Come someone control their weight? (Some people don’t make a choice to be fat as there are glandular diseases among others that can spin a thin person out of control).

I’m sure that there are more examples.

Can these people make changes to their biological make-up?

Homophobia, Americanophobia, fatophobia, and racial attacks are what REAL bigotry is.

However, if you choose (choose being the operative word here) to…

• believe in God
• join an organized religion
• be anti-Bush
• be anti-Obama
• be pro-Bush
• be pro-Obama
• be pro-neutral
• anti-this or anti-that / pro-this or pro-that / neutral-this or neutral-that
• be a moderate
• be an atheist
• get tattoos
• dye your hair

or just CHOOSE to believe in something or DO something, you are basically setting yourself up for criticism by the people at large and fairly enough – so. You have control over your choices. So, in my opinion, others should be able to voice whatever opinion they have about YOUR choices that YOU consciously made!

I am anti-Bush and unapologetically so.

If you don’t agree, that is your problem, but I’m not going to stop you from disagreeing with me! Being anti-Bush doesn’t mean I hate the core of his being and doesn’t mean I disagree with him on every issue either. I basically disagree with MOST of his policies! Get over it and yourselves! You are not a bigot because of where you choose to be on the political compass. You are not a bigot because you disagree with my disagreeing with Bush. I am not a bigot because I disagree with your neutral stance on Bush. Nor are you a bigot because you disagree with the way a certain government runs a country.

There’s a HUGE difference between a true victim and one who is a perpetual cry baby trying to garner attention, sympathy, and make pity parties for themselves. Quite predictably it is the cry babies that refuse to see the difference.

Cheers!