Prejudice in HE

[mrk2010]

Really? How do you know this? And why on earth do you think they are supposed to be more open minded?

An education doesn't make a person less of a bigot. Unfortunately more often than not it only makes them more clever in how they express that bigotry. No matter how many letters a person adds to the end of their name, they are still a human being. Still full of the confusion, fears, worries and petty hatreds that everyone else, even those without any letters at all behind there name have.

Two people - um I mean two bigots - is all you have met in university. My how the world has changed. A few days have passed since I walked on Berzerkeley's campuses (Berkeley, Calif.) It was and I think is still considered one of the most liberal and open minded (yes brains fell out everywhere, that is how open minded it was/is) campuses in the USA, if not on earth - and I met dozens of bigots - and not just haters of the rainbow crowd - haters of many peoples.

What you have witnessed so far is mild compared to what I have witness on and off campus. Back in my day they literally took base ball bats and literally bashed gays (blacks and various other minorities).

And they (those bigots) went around in packs, like wild feral rabies infected dogs always on the prowl for their next victim. Not just an individual getting an upset tummy because he is face to face with the reality that he loves cock. Oh wait, I ain't supposed to point out that many homophobes have a tendency to be at the very least bi if not fully queer.

Whole packs of them raging at the world, at themselves and looking for a target to beat to demonstrate to themselves and others that 'we ain't that way - we hate that way thus can't be that way.'

The worst ones were not the unwashed, uneducated masses. It was and I take it still is the educated ones, those who learned new ways to pick on and bully. The worst ones don't carry baseball bats either. Skin heals, broken bones mend. Its the ones who get that higher education and learn to hide their bigotry and learn how to drip it out in their words, half disguised but so toxic it burns the very soul of those they hate.

Your posts always make me giggle at how dark they are but the truth is they are totally blunt and truthful. Totally agree there, the worst people are the ones who can hide their bigotry.