But you used your retelling to ascribe bad behavior to catholic families generally. That is the essence of bigotry.
Fascinating . . .
So, to observe something in one’s own extended family and to logically extrapolate that to a broader group is automatically bigotry . . .
Except, of course,
When Petronski is doing it in reverse about Prottys?
LOL.
LOL
GTTM.
Depends on one’s observational experiences and how one articulates how one is generalizing from the sample.
Generalizations from samples are made all the time and quite soundly and fittingly.
Otherwise, Gallup, Harris et al would be out of business.
I think maybe in a later post someone said something about blacks stealing bicycles.
Of course I would not assert that because a black stole one bike from my extended family that all blacks steal bicycles.
However, if out of 10 black families in a neighborhood, 7 of them had kids who stole bikes, I might logically guesstimate that bike stealing was attractive to a significant percentage of black kids.
Or, to use another example, how many folks hereon would feel AS comfortable sitting next to an overtly Muslim young man on a plane when he had several other tough looking Muslim young men . . . all of whom seemed to be communicating with coded signals; who seemed to be nervous; who seemed to be dazed, if not crazed in theirs eyes
vs
a similar number of similar aged Mennonite young men???
Inferences are inherently hazardous. They are not 100% always 100% worthless.
Observations of 30+ years in the rcc. School, masses, events, catechism, meals, watching families of my childhood friends. All point to emptiness of the rcc faith via lack of holiness and almost without exception no one living for the Lord.
Observation - conclusion. It's the way human build an understanding of the way the world works. If you want to call my conclusions based on observations bigotry, you may do so. But your playing the religion card the same way the rev. jackson plays the race card my friend.