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Originally Posted by MissMisa
Yeah there is nothing really solid I can argue against. I just can't help feeling it is in 'bad taste.' Are they wanting to do it on purpose knowing that it's bad taste or what? Couldn't they just do it somewhere else to avoid trouble, or are they purposely trying to provoke trouble? It just brings up all those annoying questions in my mind that make me feel uncomfortable to think about.
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At one point they were actually asked to consider another location. But this location is in the community it will serve and nothing else was viable in a more remote location. To build a community center where the members of the community cannot get to it reasonably is a wasted effort.
Its been more 15 years since I was in that neighboorhood, so I don't recall how far 2 blocks would be but it certainly isn't all that close.
I do understand learned dislikes. My father taught foreign students and I have a deep seated distrust and dislike for a certain nationalities that I had problems with during that time. I have to suppress my gut reaction when I meet someone from those countries that I will probably never outlive. (Ironically one of them is an Islamic country) But I refuse to allow other people to be judged by what I was subjected to years ago by a series of individuals, simply because their culture/government endorsed their behavior at that point in history.