Originally posted by ATH911
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
a bunch of purple haired, pierced nose, new age college "alternatives" who insisted Bush was as bad as Bin Laden, the gov't was evil, etc etc etc, and then took their demonstration to the streets waving US flags mounted upside down, handing out flyers, and the like. I'd say around 75 of them, and I'm not making up the part about the purple hair and pierced noses because I saw them with my own eyes.
What difference does it make how they looked? Are you a type of person who judges people based on the way they look?
Well, yes, actually, I do, especially in this case. In case it's been lost on you....and it apparently has....people don't dye their hair purple or pierce their noses because it's a fashion trend. They do it specifically because they want to separate themselves from what they call "mainstream society" and it's a badge of rebellion against the norm to them. In other words, they're openly declaring themselves to be outcasts. Therefore, why should I take them seriously if they're openly announcing themselves to be outcasts and telling the rest of us to take our norms of mainstream society and go [censored] ourselves?
What these idiots don't understand is that they're NOT rebelling against society nor are they even running against the herd. They're simply following some OTHER herd, in this case, the belief that "it's all a government plot" is the answer to pretty much every question there is from "why were we attacked on 9/11" to "Why did they cancel 'Firefly". One guy even told me once that there was a gov't conspiracy behind the price of bananas(!). Such abject paranoia is what leads them to drink the Kool-aid those damned fool conspiracy web sites are serving to begin with, so it's not a "they live outside of mainstream society so they can see things we don't" issue. It's a "they're imagining things that really aren't there specifically because they live outside of mainstream society" issue.
