We had a lovely open-house party on Saturday. One of my neighbors, while sitting in my living room, eating my food and drinking my wine, remarked half-jokingly that "A Republican wouldn't be welcome in the neighborhood". Ha ha ha. Lucky for her she didn't joke that Black people, homosexuals, Muslims or Communists wouldn't be welcome in the neighborhood, because somebody might have thought she was a simple-minded bigot!
More importantly, we were joined by many wonderful people who really did make us feel welcome!
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 04, 2003 10:49 AMYou might have forgotten right wing religious extremists.
Shouldn't modern, liberal thinking include openess to ideas and tolerance of differing viewpoints? Oh, perhaps I forget that the ideas a modern, liberal mind doesn't like are the exceptions.
Posted by: Rob C on August 4, 2003 11:38 AMI don't know who James Hetfield had in mind when he penned Metallica's Eye of the Beholder
Independence Limited
Freedom of Choice?
Choice Is Made for You My Friend
Freedom of Speech
Is Words That They Will Bend
Freedom with Their Exception
PS: In Hebrew, the motto of your neighbor would not be "Tzedek, tzedek tirdof" (justice, justice shalt thou pursue) but "tzadkanut, tzadkanut tirdof" (self-righteousness, self-righteousness shalt thou pursue).
Posted by: Former Belgian on August 4, 2003 12:09 PMWell, from another outnumbered more-or-less Republican in the room, welcome again to Seattle. Glad to have you. The neighborhood has much to learn.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on August 4, 2003 01:55 PMGood thing you're not a Republican. In fact, come to think of it, you're rather hard to put into a particular stereotype . . . except the "American" one.
Posted by: ipsofacto on August 4, 2003 09:22 PMDid you say something like that to her?
Wish i'd known about your party....
Posted by: bleeding heart conservative on August 5, 2003 02:46 PM