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Originally Posted by debaser
I didn't start the thread. What I have spent my time on this thread for is to challenge those who feel I must believe as they do or else somehow be a, oh what was that word, bigot. This is not so.
Apathy was just an example of a middle ground betwixt respect and disrespect, though it does adequately explain how I feel about the Amish.
Again, the Amish have done nothing to earn either my respect or my disrespect.
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Look, to be completely honest you're making yourself look foolish here. If you say you do NOT RESPECT something, and the defintion of disrespect is to NOT RESPECT something, then you DISRESPECT it. I don't know how Cynthetiq could have spelled this out more clearly for you. You do disrespect the Amish.
And if your "nerdy etymological joke" involved the fact that "denigrate" has the letter string "nig" in there, and therefore must refer to "nigger," then you're showing your vast ignorance of the language, because "denigrate" stems from the 1500's, long before anyone came up with the offensive term in question.
And Ustwo, you WILL collect social security. The Amish will never collect it - it goes against their beliefs.