I understand what you mean - I've had my car vandalized 3 times in the last month, my boyfriend had his vandalized 14 times - at work- in a guarded parking lot - at a union shop. I've seen so many yard signs defaced, it makes me sick - I only saw one Kerry/Edwards sign that was defaced when I was out replacing Bush/Cheney signs. I pulled the sign, turned it in to the Dem headquarters and put a clean sign back in the yard of the person that had it before - because i support their right to voice their opinion.
The babykiller comment was used to grab your attention - which it did. It was posted to refute the implication that the people of the rest of texas are lemmings and can't think for themselves. It got quite strong after the xenophobe accusation that was groundless. Yes, I think we should agree to disagree - I wholeheartedly admire the fact that you are passionate about your beliefs. I'll never tell you that your convictions are wrong - but I will say that to hate someone else for theirs and to project hate and intolerance toward someone because they don't think the same as you is wrong.
In Oklahoma, Kerry/Edwards signs were stolen a lot, but never defaced. I saw a blurb on the news telling people to spray their signs with WD-40 so the signs would be harder to steal.
That sucks about your car. People who do things like that drive me crazy. They remind me of PETA; I think they would get a lot more respect if they didn't suck so much.
All I can say about the xenophobe comment is that about 80% of the Republicans I know are xenophobes. But I also don't understand why all liberals are supposed to believe in abortion, because I don't. Neither does my boyfriend or my mom or my dad or about a billion other liberals I know. Ah, stereotypes.
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Re: To quote the poet-philosopher Thomas Lehrer
on 5 Nov 2004 13:30 (UTC)I've seen so many yard signs defaced, it makes me sick - I only saw one Kerry/Edwards sign that was defaced when I was out replacing Bush/Cheney signs. I pulled the sign, turned it in to the Dem headquarters and put a clean sign back in the yard of the person that had it before - because i support their right to voice their opinion.
The babykiller comment was used to grab your attention - which it did. It was posted to refute the implication that the people of the rest of texas are lemmings and can't think for themselves. It got quite strong after the xenophobe accusation that was groundless.
Yes, I think we should agree to disagree - I wholeheartedly admire the fact that you are passionate about your beliefs. I'll never tell you that your convictions are wrong - but I will say that to hate someone else for theirs and to project hate and intolerance toward someone because they don't think the same as you is wrong.
Re: To quote the poet-philosopher Thomas Lehrer
on 5 Nov 2004 20:20 (UTC)That sucks about your car. People who do things like that drive me crazy. They remind me of PETA; I think they would get a lot more respect if they didn't suck so much.
All I can say about the xenophobe comment is that about 80% of the Republicans I know are xenophobes. But I also don't understand why all liberals are supposed to believe in abortion, because I don't. Neither does my boyfriend or my mom or my dad or about a billion other liberals I know. Ah, stereotypes.