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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Would you mind helping me out with this, because heaven knows I don’t want the pejorative “politically correct” hung around my neck.
I have been here over a year and a half, and it would be impossible for me to count how many posts I have read that cry “persecution.“ And in almost every one of them, they liken the very real persecutions the early Saints endured to the pithy persecutions they think they are still enduring today.
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Definately I am a new kid on the block compared to you and most others in this community. I have not seen countless posts where people are crying persecution. Thinking about it, I know I have heard about the attacks on temples since prop 8 passed, and certainly some people are saying that is targeted against mormons in particular. But I don't think those attacks have anything to do with driving the saints into the snow in their bleeding bare feet, or tarring and feathering them. I don't think it equates at all, and to my mind you have to stretch far to come up with this lit Christmas cross being a similar thing.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
According to your rationale, if I express my compassion for the black Americans who were terrorized by monsters, I am being politically correct. I get that.
But when someone here writes a post about the early Saints who were terrorized, albeit in much smaller numbers, and by different monsters, am I being politically correct if I express my compassion for them as well?
Or, again using your rationale, when I express my belief that is better not to offend people by displaying an item that evokes their hate-filled and violent past, I am being politically correct.
But if I express my concerns that it is offensive to demean the early Saints' hate-filled and violent past by comparing it to the present persecutions that are nothing but, isn't that being politically correct as well?
Because the only difference I see is one of the groups is Mormon.
I don’t cherry pick the atrocities I give my compassion to. And if showing my compassion for one of the above is being politically correct, then it is true for other as well.
So be it. I don't mind.
Elphaba
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Feel free to give compassion to any group you desire. Just please understand that because someone doesn't see what you see doesn't mean that they are hardened monsters with no compassion. If I saw this cross as designed to remind blacks of the bitter history of prejudice, then I would feel outrage and compassion. There are enough sorrowful things in the world for me to grieve over, I don't need to invent one more. Since I don't see a burning cross, I don't feel overwhelmed by the desire to be outraged about it.
Actually, Elphie, my statement about being politically correct wasn't about YOU at all. I was agreeing with Deborah when she said, "I fear if we live our lives constantly worried about offending someone, it will be a very sterile, boring, nervous life.
No thank you."
When I look at that picture of a lit cross, I do not see a burning cross, I do not see a cross that reminds me of the Klu Klux Klan. I suspect that the people at the AFA did not see a lit cross. There is something to be said for not being offended when no offense is intended. It gets wearisome constantly walking on eggshells worrying about inadvertently offending someone. We live in a diverse world, and the truth is you can ALWAYS offend someone, even with the most innocent of words or actions. Sometimes it's you... sometimes it them.
That said, I apologize if you thought my words about being politically correct were aimed at you. They were really a statement about me. I stand by the intentions of my heart, and refuse to be politcally correct. If that is perceived as a lack of compassion, sobeit. I know better.
Sister of Jared