I think the important issue here is that we don’t paint large groups with the same brush as we paint the smaller groups. I am thinking of Volvos here, and, I guess, Baptists could fit too.
Although I don’t own a Volvo, I understand they are quite well built. I even know some decent people who own Volvos. So let’s not villify the poor Volvo because of a few bad apples.
As for Baptists, I also know some quite well built Baptists, both men and women. They are decent people, some even own Volvos.
Since those protestors were from Kansas, I guess we can’t lump all the good folks from there in with this small group of insensitive…enough on them
Those protestors are also Americans so we can’t paint all Americans with the same brush as those dozen or so Volvo driving (was it a Volvo?), Baptists from Kansas. If we did that, then, really, all English speaking people should be painted with the same brush.
As a naturally intolerant person, I have a job where I work closely with Africans, Americans, Asians, bisexuals, heterosexuals, homosexuals, English speakers and foreigh language speakers, men, women, bad and good (all groups mentioned alphabetically, BTW). And who have I found to be the easiest to get along with? The answer is: Yes.
And, yes, there are those individuals in each of those groups who I have experienced to be royal pains in the rectal sphincter, just as, I am sure, I have been at one time or another (we need not go any further than my wife or kids to prove that statement out).
What I am saying by all of this is simply: it is not the group nor association that an individual is a part of that makes the individual an idiot, it is the individual.