I feel the exact same way when I'm confronted by my own family members with, "But Jews vote democrat," or "Jews don't believe in guns!" One cousin was shocked that I had "a gun." I told her "no, I don't have a gun, I've got 17 guns!" Her response was "Well, if you've got all those guns, I'm never going to come over to your house! I forbid you to have guns!" I told her, "well, I've never invited you over to my house, and you can keep the hell away! And you forbid me? Come again?"
We really haven't spoken since then.
I'm disgusted about this sort of "group think." When my aunt told me that she voted for Gore/Lieberman, I asked her why. She looked at me funny and replied, "because he's Jewish!" My response was, "voting for someone who's Jewish BECAUSE he's Jewish is no different than voting against someone because he's Jewish!
Just once, I want to confront one of those "only a Black can represent a Black," or "only a woman can represent a woman" idiots, with, so since I'm a white male, I should ONLY vote for white males? And are women so stupid that they can't represent men? And are Blacks only capable of representing other Blacks?
Mark
Yeah, I don't get the group think mentality either. I make my own choices about things and I don't much care who agrees with me or not. That just seems normal to me. I certainly don't agree that only a woman can represent me, or only someone white. Most of the so-called "female leaders" aren't going anywhere I want to follow them to. And they certainly don't voice my beliefs and opinions.
Bump!