Anyone who claims to be unprejudiced is, at the very least, self-deluded. Common logic dictates that if you have a preference, you automatically have a prejudice against its antithesis. Opinions are synonymous with bias and, as we keep hearing, everyone is entitled to them. Ergo, everyone leans in one direction or the other on virtually every issue, which inevitably leads to labels, intolerance and bigotry.
And that's okay with me. I don't think we should be expected to accept customs and ethical standards we find offensive, just to avoid the appearance of discrimination (or the current mealy-mouth tsk-tsk, “political incorrectness). Through observation and experience, I've learned that there are groups of people for whom I can only muster contempt and disgust, and if expressing these impressions makes me a bigot, so be it. Unlike many other prejudiced people, however, I don't stop with simply indicating my distaste; I try to find solutions to the underlying causes of my negative opinions.
For one thing, I am appalled by the unfettered proliferation of underage, unmarried parents in this country. Every time I see some bubblegum-popping kid with a snotty-nosed, screaming infant, buying Similac with food stamps, I'm tempted to yell, "What's the matter with you, you idiot? Have you never heard the word 'condom'? Why am I paying your way through life just because you think sex is a competitive sport?"
Until they were finally evicted a few months ago, the family next door consisted of three generations of unapologetic white trash, daily engaged in the sort of toxic interaction that passes for "parenting" in our endemically dysfunctional country. Sixteen-year old son of alcoholic patriarch siring an infant with a 19-year old addict, along with pregnant-again meth-head 18-year-old sister and her two-year-old head-banging toddler, all jammed together in a tiny 2-bedroom apartment. In short, I was living next door to the Jerry Springer show and I couldn't change the channel. So, if feeling disgusted, offended, and contemptuous of this sort of thoughtless, impulsive, uncontrollable procreation makes me a prejudiced snob, I gladly accept the label. I am repulsed by this lifestyle, and I don't care who knows it.
Not that too many kids having too many kids is just an American problem. It's no secret that one of the most basic causes of global distress is overpopulation, which, although widely recognized, has been pushed aside by more pressing world issues, except in modern China. Everyplace else, including our own clueless country, is rife with early sexual activity sans birth control. As a result, the world is overrun with millions of ignorant, uneducated, single parents, raising unending generations of ignorant, uneducated, neglected children for which the rest of us pay, in both money and lowered common standards.
I have devised a solution to this pandemic which was originally a part of this article. However, having learned that the average gather reader is averse to anything longer than a page, I will post the rest of it tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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Comments: 25
I shall provide you with whatever it is you need to get your happy, frail ass out of her.
(Only because that's what you want, isn't it? Huh? If you don't want that, I'll gladly keep you here. It's your call.)
Dame Ruth, I love this article!! Can't wait for Part 2!
It is tough dealing with neighbors like that. We have had several families of renters next door who had problems. One family was dealing drugs and was eventually evicted. Two back to back families kept a dog on a chain in the back yard who would bark all night. We had to put portable fans in each bedroom for the 4 of us to sleep.
Show me a family that neglects and abuses its pets and i will show you a family that probably neglect and abuse each other.
The odd thing is that some of us (conservatives mostly) think that promiscuous unmarried people are all Dems. In my experience their political convictions are totally unrelated to what they do with their genitalia. Drug dealers may be less likely to vote Republican. Actually i cant prove that either.
You are 100% correct about China. They control the animal and human population. However, we don't hear much about their system.