Comments | archaeobob: More on local attitudes - nowhere near the progress since the 60s as thought.

archaeobob

More on local attitudes - nowhere near the progress since the 60s as thought.

Jun 22, 2013 11:41

There is a poll being conducted on a local news website that I find revealing... and backs up what I heard from the guy who is taking down the houses next door ( Read more... )

sexism, south, bigotry, racism, polls, bigots

Comments 3

cinnamontoast June 23 2013, 15:24:46 UTC

Oops. I would have been fired. I know that I've learned a lot of life lessons in my years. Especially after I moved to the city and actually interacted with people who were different from me.

I think people can learn. Plus, the more I read about what actually went on with Paula Dean, she's really being punished for being honest. She could have said that she didn't and no one would have believed her. Anyone who hasn't held a grudge or a prejudice in their lives is lying. Seriously ( ... )

archaeobob June 24 2013, 16:20:10 UTC

I think that in my case, I've seen so many people who claim to have changed but didn't that I'm jaded about it, although I've gone through a lot of changes through my life (mainly being forced into a personality and belief system that wasn't right for me - and then eventually returning to the person I once was). I know it can happen because of my life, but I rarely see it - for real - in others (exception being those who walk... they change radically but often back to the person they were when they were young... or to the person they WOULD have been if the damned churches didn't force them into molds ( ... )

cinnamontoast June 24 2013, 20:15:06 UTC

I know that people tend to stay the same when they are locked into a life and aren't exposed to anything else. But I wouldn't say that about someone like Deen.

Don't get me wrong, I've got no love for her. I've never seen her show and I don't watch the food network. Personally, it doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

It's just that this whole "You said something once in your life, so I'm going to condemn you forever" stuff is a trend that's worrisome. If she were in her 20s, I'd say that they might be right to let her go because there's a good chance that her career would bounce back, but she isn't.

I don't remember being quite so unforgiving when I was young and idealistic.

If we ever decide to rent out the apartment upstairs, I swear I'm going to advertise it as "smokers with pets only". I bet people will pound down the door for an application.