Everything that people are saying about the downtown Manhattan community center, I just automatically hear people saying that about something that I might want to do someday.
I wish more people would hear it that way when someone talks about restricting someone else's civil liberties - although I'm sorry that in your case the habit comes from a long communal history of dealing with violent prejudice. I don't even recall how I acquired it myself, but it's a big part of why I'm in the Liberal Democrats, and why our most recent Labour Government made me scared and angry. Several of the early drafts of this post actually had the line "you're a danger to me" in them. I eventually decided it was probably unfair to my friends to put it in that way, but the degree of support a Government like that was able to command still frightens me if I let myself think about it.
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Date: 2010-08-20 05:03 pm (UTC)I wish more people would hear it that way when someone talks about restricting someone else's civil liberties - although I'm sorry that in your case the habit comes from a long communal history of dealing with violent prejudice. I don't even recall how I acquired it myself, but it's a big part of why I'm in the Liberal Democrats, and why our most recent Labour Government made me scared and angry. Several of the early drafts of this post actually had the line "you're a danger to me" in them. I eventually decided it was probably unfair to my friends to put it in that way, but the degree of support a Government like that was able to command still frightens me if I let myself think about it.