I had a run in with a redneck today...now some of my southern friends will laugh and say..."you live in Queensland, you are surrounded by them" but this was a special kind of redneck.
I love the movie Guess Who is Coming to Dinner, and one of my top 10 fave lines is "you see yourself as a black man, I see myself as a man". It is powerful language. Relevance I hear you ask dear reader...I had a redneck tell me today how "abominable" homosexuality is and how they "had" to cut this person from their life, and they were a fairly significant person in their lives. I can name some abdominal behaviours in a person...but nowhere on my list is a person's adult consenting sexual orientation. Further more, those behaviours that I find "abominable" I pretty much keep to myself...unless asked...and then due warnings are given.
Back to my movie quote....to paraphrase me "I see myself as human, no better or worse than the next human"
Words....so powerful to be used so flippantly...
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