coercion

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "susanmcgee48176"
<Schlobin at ...> wrote:
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> > 
> > Carol, fearing that dominance is a fact of life, just like laws,
> > government, taxes, and bosses
> >
> 
> 
> Well, some of us (like J.K. Rowling who indicates her views very
clearly specifically in Order of the Phoenix) feel that dominance and
tyranny and enforced beliefs are something to be resisted and fought
against....
> 
> Do you really think, for example, that the dominance on white people
against people of color is okay?
> 
> Susan
>
Carol responds:
Please don't put words in my mouth. When and where did I say that? *Of
course* I don't believe that nonwhite people are inferior to white
people (though I don't use PC terms like "people of color"--last time
I looked, my skin was some unidentifiable color--kind of a freckly
pale pinkish). I am only saying that you will have a hard time
escaping a dominant culture whether you live in the U.S. China,
Pakistan, or Timbuktu. And I think you're the one whose mistaking
dominance for tyranny with regard to "Merry Christmas," which is not
anyone imposing their will on you and making you celebrate Christmas
or attend church. Freedom of religion includes the right not to be
Christian. I don't attend church, either, FWIW, and I send away any
Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses who knock on my door intending to
"save" me with a polite "not interested."

Carol, who is *obviously* opposed to tyranny (there's a reason I see
fundamentalist Islam as dangerous) but fears that *dominance* (whether
it's in terms of a dominant culture, a government, or an employer) is
an inescapable fact of life