California real estate prices versus North Carolina and Florida

[Anonymous]

Definition:
A ‘bigot’ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his own.

Previous poster’s comments:
“i kinda agree about those bostonians; perhaps their covert racism is worse than the overt sort…”

Translation: I am intolerant of Bostonians and believe that they are all closet bigots. I am so intolerant of them that I believe they are the worst bigots of all.

“its the OTHER sort of bigotry, that driven by illiteracy and evangelism…”

Translation: I am intolerant of Christian evangelicals because they are tricking illiterate southerners and suburbanites to become bigots.

“..their questioning of fossilized thinking that glorifies war and reduces the rest of humanity to simple evil”

Translation: I am intolerant of those who were for the Iraq War and those who think that evil exists in the world.

“..is rampant in the South and in all of suburbia.”

Translation: Suburbanites and southerners are bigots, and I am intolerant of the beliefs that I have assigned to them.

“…their sexual orientation…”
Translation: I am intolerant of anyone who is against gay marriage, or whose views on homesexuality differ from my own.

“…lacking an appreciation of people’s diversity of belief…”
——> No translation needed, you just descibed your own comments perfectly…exactly who is the bigot?

[exeunt]

juice

though every single one of your “translations” is merely a caricature of my riposte, converting a questioning commentary into a set of stark misrepresentations, i take your point about the tone of my note – i will be more charitable on my future forays…

[vegasrenter]

I felt a lot better about this thread after reading Juice’s “tranlations.” – Exeunt was dangling a lot of bait in the water, and somebody needed to bite.

[CostaMesa]

Though nobody asked, I will offer this additional tidbit.

During the 14 years I lived in NC, not a single week went by without someone repeating the “why don’t you go back where you came from, yankee!” line – typically right to my face. It was really a nearly daily thing, but occasionally I didn’t get out much and got a reprieve. Strangers would walk up to me in the grocery store and dish out that bile, absolutely unprovoked, based on nothing more than an absence of southern accent.

For a farm kid who grew up in rural Nebraska, that sort of ‘hospitality’ wound up being the majority of the reason why I left. The enforced ignorance that permeates every corner of that state is best left to those who find it comfortable. I’m not inclined to live around a group of people that practice open disrespect towards others…

[Anonymous]

You seem serious, and I am surprised. I haven’t heard those complaints from others I know who have moved there. Were you in a big city?

[Cow_tipping]

NC is weird. I know of people who are racist but they typically target Black people. I can also see them targetting Yanks, but as a complete foreigner and ironically very mexican looking, I get by just fine. Never felt NC was racist. Heck, I am thnking of moving to a much more rural county.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.

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