Onizuka said:
Yeah, well, I live here, you don't. So, congratulations on your baseless, asinine assumption.
Baseless, asinine assumption? Again, that comes across as so hateful (based on an assumption of your own, I might add).
I spent over 15 years of my life in Colorado and still consider it "home." It's where I'm from, so I took personal offense to your comment, on behalf of myself and my friends & family who still live there. And regardless of what state or group it was, I find condemning and especially hating any large group of people based on the actions of a select few, to be quite a despicable behavior. In my opinion, your statement is equivalent to this (one word change):
This is why I hate <insert race here>s. Stupid, stupid people.
I surely hope everyone here agrees that the above statement is a horrible thing to think or say. It has no place in a civilized society. Yet it does exactly the same thing by applying sweeping prejudice against a broad group of people based on things that apply to a vast minority of individuals in that group.
Onizuka said:
Jon Benet, Columbine, School riots over basketball games, cops killing their families and committing suicide, cool slutty moms. Yeah, this is a great place, not to mention the cops, politicians, laws, and weather.
Whoopie. Regarding the state I currently live in: The Governator, OJ Simpson, Rodney King riots, Michael Jackson, celebrities getting off in their trials, smog, overcrowding, rolling blackouts, greedy movie industry turning out crap blockbuster after crap blockbuster, etc... Plenty of things to dislike about California, but I don't go around saying Californians are stupid.
It's a diverse world with lots of good and intelligent people among the bad and stupid. Painting an entire group as bad is just the sort of intolerance that ultimately leads entire countries to go to war against each other instead of doing the civilized thing and seeking a peaceful compromise. I am in no way saying your statement is even close to that, just that similar types of thoughts and statements are the first stepping stones towards it.
Growing up in Colorado, I remember there was kind of an undercurrent of hatred towards Texas. I don't know why, but Texans were portrayed as big, loudmouthed jackasses who should secede from the union. Then I actually visited there and was absolutely blown away at how friendly everyone was, including complete strangers. Totally changed my outlook on that state and made me realize that such prejudice is absolutely never a good thing. Even if you feel you have the "right" to say it because you live there or something like that.
I apologize for dragging this off topic and I certainly did not want to start a flame war. I just felt that the original statement was inappropriate and unfair to the people you accuse, and wanted to call it out as such.
As for the story here, yes, the mom is a stupid person. Stupid and extremely irresponsible. The kids may have been old enough that they enjoyed whatever went on and as such were not really "victims." But this woman had no right to provide them with illegal substances or do sexual things with them when their parents almost certainly would have disapproved.
