Alas, if I but could.
Sometimes people need a bit of a scolding. They get thoughtless and stupid, and it jumps right to hurtful and hateful without a pause or even recognition, and goes on to reinforce the assumptions and brainwashing that led to the trouble to begin with. So when I can get away with it, and when I can't stand it any more, I point it out as firmly-yet-gently as my poor head can manage.
I say "when I can get away with it" because this here Open Book is the only open book I have. Everything else has some slight filter or color adjustment (meaning a character format, to continue the metaphor), and it is not politically useful to tell the whole truth.
I really wish I could add, "So stop being such a brainless, hateful bigot. You embarrass Thought itself."
But I can't.
[Addendum: Hm, sometimes one or two do manage to notice that they exemplify the behavior! Color me surprised! Some promise of a future at last. Some. Still not telling them about this place, and the whole truth of the matter. I'm not quite that crazy yet.]
I say "when I can get away with it" because this here Open Book is the only open book I have. Everything else has some slight filter or color adjustment (meaning a character format, to continue the metaphor), and it is not politically useful to tell the whole truth.
I really wish I could add, "So stop being such a brainless, hateful bigot. You embarrass Thought itself."
But I can't.
[Addendum: Hm, sometimes one or two do manage to notice that they exemplify the behavior! Color me surprised! Some promise of a future at last. Some. Still not telling them about this place, and the whole truth of the matter. I'm not quite that crazy yet.]