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Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
I was thinking about short term prejudice, like in reaction to some event, and whether a blurted out statement is forgivable or, ignorable maybe-
October 2001 I saw David Sedaris reading stories. He was living in Paris at the time and talking about how on edge he felt in a city with a large Islamic population as the US was gearing up to do war. He said "Frankly, I think we should turn the entire Middle East into a parking lot." If you don't know his work, this was not in keeping with his normal views.
A few years I saw him read again and by then he had dropped his original position and was hating on W for keeping wars going. This was much more in line with what I'd have expected from him.
And on one level, after 9/11 you might forgive, or understand, an extremely nasty statement as not indicative of a person's feelings. But on another level even fantasizing about mass genocide of entire populations seems to evidence a basic hate that might be normally kept hidden.
I still read his books. Should I?
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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