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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tonight, my supposedly Christian FIL started talking about how he got into a debate with his Jewish friend about the Old Testament, and how he found Jews "arrogant" for considering themselves the chosen people.  Due to their arrogance, he could "kinda see where Hitler was coming from".  I about strangled him at the dining room table.

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If you didn't immediately challenge his words, ask him to leave your home (or leave the premesis of wherever you were yourself), you are complicit to his xenophobic and harmful comment. If you would stay silent through that comment, what WOUDL make you speak up? [/quote]

Not PP but I have an elderly mother who says some cringeworthy things, never about Hiltler, but she is clearly not a fan of illegal immigrants/undocumented citizens. Throwing people out because of what they say is not always an answer.  Let me educate you on the human brain, the frontal lob which is where reasoning and a person’s ‘filter’ is, starts to weaken as they age. Take that into consideration when you throw people out. Instead of matching their intolerance, [b]share why killing people based on their beliefs is heinous and inhuman. [/b]If they do not want to hear words of sensibility then change the discussion. Psychological and sociological studies show we all base ideals and generalizations on sex, race, religion, etc... It is a wide spectrum of how each of us view others ranging from strong affinity to strong disdain for each other. I am not trying to oversimplify or justify anyone’s words or behavior but humans are flawed and will always have judgements on people, places or things that do not align with others. [/quote]

Ridiculous.  You can't politely reason with people about genocide.  And you absolutely are trying to justify Nazism.  [/quote]

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