Good quote.

I haven't used this tag too much lately, as I've sort of been hermity of late and not poking my head out of my warm nest. But I read this on my friendspage this morning and went 'yes, yes, that is what I wanted to say to that guy but never quite got my point across.' Anyway, I give you the brilliance of naamah_darling:

"I will give you another hint, free of charge. If it is more important to you to emphasize that you are the shining exception to the bigoted rule, if it is more important to you to explain why you are right or why you didn't mean it that way, than it is for you to stop and listen to what the other person is saying, you're basically confirming their worst opinions outright: that you are a person who values your own voice above the informed words of a person from a group over which your own very likely has a significant cultural advantage."