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Re: Derailed thread
« Reply #60: August 28, 2012, 03:05:39 PM »
Hm. Actually, I think I may have been misreading you, at least partially. It was about the "I haven't suffered enough to understand such hatreds" thing, which I inferred to mean hating a group for the actions of some of its members.

Ah, okay.

YEah, I generally don't really endorse any hatreds; that's what I was trying to say. I was just also noting that though I can't endorse them, I try to be careful in condemning them too easily; I try (though often fail) to not simply ideologize my own privilege. So for example: Israelis and Palestinians. Many of them hate each other. They'd probably be better off not hating each other. I cannot endorse that hatred. At the same time, I don't feel it is acceptable for me to judge either side too harshly for their hatreds, given the long history both sides have suffered. Which isn't an extremely productive moral position, I know.
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