Patrick, Remember the Troubles in the latter half of the Twentieth Century? If I were to say now that all Irish people, and by extension, all those who share their Catholic Christian faith, are therefore violent monsters who want to kill all British people, what would you call me? "Moronic" comes to mind. "Uninformed". "One-sided". "Bigoted". "Foolish". "Hateful". "Racist". "Deranged". These are the more polite of them. Of course there is more than one side to the Troubles, and crimes were committed by both sides.
Now, let's look at another example. A people to whom defeat was synonymous with death, surrender was not an option and who ruthlessly marched across the globe as far as they could reach in their fanatical devotion to their "infallible" leader.
Some of these people had left their home country and settled in the United States of America, living there for years. But when their relatives invaded neighbouring countries and attacked US soil, these peaceful American citizens were rounded up and sent into camps, their homes sold and rights forgotten. I'm sure you'll agree with the then US government that this was clearly the correct course of action to contain these descendants of an evidently dangerous nation and war philosophy, but personally I would have given these sons and daughters of late-Feudal Japan the benefit of the doubt.
You, sir, repeat the mistakes of the past. But it's okay! these are a different people, different time! It's okay that you make these age-old errors again, because they aren't black, Japanese, Jewish, Native American, Indian, Incan, Aztec or other previously oppressed race, nationality or faith. You have chosen a new target for a new time, and you have the perfect excuse. As we all know, the actions of the few reflect the intent of them all.
So go ahead, Patrick, vent your pent-up hate. We could all stand more of it all over our forums, we just can't get enough of it. If they can hate us irrationally, we are perfectly within our rights to do the same and remain the bigger man, right? After all, two wrongs squared divided by the cube root of ignorance make a right. Don't they? I was never any good at mathbigotry.
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