OK, I think there was some cross-referencing between Sean and myself.
I had responded to another poster re: ignoring the thread…Sean’s post came under mine and said “keep your tip”, so I assumed he was responding to me. I now see that he was responding to another user and not me.
Not lightly… just ignorantly and with deep seated bigotry. But hey, if you wanna adopt that stance as your moral foundation then like I said, you do you.
Oh boy… you’re just full of insightful commentary aren’t you?
Bigotry is literally defined as an obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
You’re welcome to be whomever you wanna be but… when you can’t be honest about who you are, it might be time to think about changing who you are. Just another tip for you while you pretend you’re not exactly what your actions prove you to be.
There’s a lot of anger and diffusion here, but I think it’s pretty plain that a casual comment demonising around half the population is unlikely to go well in any forum that is not exclusively populated by people outside that 50% - for example, in the real world.
I’m from the UK, and slightly left of centre on our scale, so in US terms, my politics are probably (much) more on the blue side. However, I’d suggest that insulting members of the opposing party, in one sweeping comment, is not part of any political movement or ideology to which I’d subscribe. It is possible - though rarely seen on the internet - for educated people to hold very different views and yet manage to interact with perfect civility.
If you believe you’re better than the other side, the best way to show that is through actions rather than intolerance.