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| Intolerance / book hating |
| 01.18.06 (11:35 am) [edit] |
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Interesting to be involved in on-line communities sometimes. On one of them, I have been branded a commie--worse a 'liberal' for disagreeing about going into Iraq to fight.
But worse, one of the people made a comment about Eisenhower and that he never planned for contigencies--because that's the equivalent of defeatism--he didn't like it when I quoted Eisenhower and then got personal with insults.
I can handle that. But then he started talking about book-learning and that books don't tell the truth, that books are over-rated as is doing research!!!
Fascinating--because this person is a doctor. I guess I just expected that someone who has presumably completed 7-8 years of college would understand the value of research and what books are good for.
Also interesting, several others jumped on his bandwagon criticizing books, memoirs, etc--and noted that "better" information is available on the internet.
Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
I guess I just have a bad time dealing with ignorance and intolerance. It is possible to consider both sides of an issue fairly--it is good to understand other cultures and their values...of course, this dentist's views are a pretty good example of why the United States is not well loved around the world.
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