At 9:46am -0500 12/6/00, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>Judging a community from the behavior of drunk young punks who that
>community would just as soon put in jail (and likely has at least once
>or twice already) is even less statistically relevant. I saw the same
>behavior as you describe, in both directions, in the five years I lived
>in Seattle, but I wouldn't say that Seattle was a hotbed of hate crimes.
Why do you assume that the people I references were drunk or young or punks?
The sad fact is that there is a lot of rural bigotry against other
races, religons and sexual orientations. I simply don't see rural
communities as having more tolerance for different cultures or
behaviors than city communities. I meant no disrespect toward any
specific culture, but I don't think any can claim the moral high
ground either.
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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