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[cesario]

You guys know how I feel about Christianity, right?

Well, actually, some of you may not, since I haven't been posting much about real life recently. So for those of you new to this journal, here's

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[parelle]

Though I haven't followed the story closely since I'm not involved in HP fandom online and only found out about it through your posts on it, your point's a very good one. Thing is, there are few who would stand up for that very group - as the stereotype is seen as true by most people, I would venture, in the fandom and perhaps in the US as a whole.

So, a long version to say that you're right, but I wonder who else would speak up for it.

[cesario]

there are few who would stand up for that very group

Herein lies the great irony of m life: I loathe Christianity with a fiery passion, but because I have a deep personal experience of a mindset so entirely contrary to my own and that of most people I associate with, I'm forever explicating and interpreting the logic of, say, my mother to people who find her incomprehensible. Sometimes I wish I didn't understand so well, my life would be a lot less tiresome. :-)

[patchfire]

Thank you for posting this. I was telling dh about all of this last night, and told him about "Kentucky Fried Christians" and it hit us both that this was such a prejudiced thing to do. I was thinking more about it this morning. The part where she may or may not have been served by a childhood best friend while talking about saunas and vacation homes. All of it. Yeah, she'd have a field day if she saw where I grew up, where I went to church... so thank you.

[cesario]

That story about the waitress who used to be her friend really, really sickened me. She couldn't have been any more smug if she'd tried.

[tartanboxers]

I found my way here through narcissam's comment on bad_penny. This is from a f-locked post I made back in June, 2003 when all this was going on:

But while I'm here, I'll ask another question. Why is it when people with certain conservative religious beliefs post how they don't believe in some things, it's all right among certain sectors to flame them for their beliefs and call them intolerant? Aren't the so-called tolerant ones being just as intolerant?

Attitudes like that have always boggled my mind.

And for the record, I'm an agnostic, who was raised in a northern US, conservative Christian home.

[cesario]

I wish people had listened to you back then. I wish some of all this had stuck to MsScribe before she left fandom, when she actually had status to lose.

But thank you.

[cesario]

et moi aussi!

[flyingcarpet]

Very good point. It's especially troubling, given that she wasn't simply carrying on a ship war or an argument over slash or smut with the sockpuppets -- she leapt at the chance to insult them for their low class and their looks (which she apparently created). In the case of pottersginny, it was even more obvious when the sockpuppet insulted MsScribe with a racial slur. Apparantly fighting bigotry with bigotry is just fine and dandy. Of course it's that much more troubling given that she may have been arguing with herself. :\

Great post -- thanks for pointing it out.

[cesario]

The free and easy way she insulted people's appearance ought to have sent up warning flags a long time ago as to the fact that she was not a nice person, sockpuppets aside.

ah well, at least its out in the open now.