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Originally Posted by mickey100
Excellent. Thank you for the compassion and understanding. It's sickening reading some of the responses on this thread. The level of hate and vitriol is horrible, and misplaced.
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Back when most of these posters were kids, there was a musical called South Pacific. Of course - old folks have lousy memories, so they forget that they are TAUGHT their attitudes - hatred, vitriol, and bigotry isn't part of their chemical makeup or DNA, it's taught to them by their parents and their environment. Maybe they had a babysitter who touched them in a private place and it made them afraid of "adults who touch children" or something. Or maybe they saw David Bowie wearing a gold lame unitard and eyeliner and got freaked out because they actually liked the song he was singing.
Who knows why people fear what they don't understand - but it's taught to them, in some way or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk