Barkerburgh

It has long been established that bigots and the blindly prejudiced are detrimental to a society, to our society. Everyone knows this and the reasons are self-evident.

I propose that in order to lessen their effect on our children and institutions, bigots be stripped of their civil rights, eg voting, public assembly, and, in some cases, their right to procreate. It is known that unreasoned bigotry can be handed down from one generation to the next, so if the confirmed bigot already has children, then those offspring should be removed from the home.

If they are not allowed to vote, or to express themselves publicly, or to pass on their distorted views of reality to posterity, the rest of civilization will be better off.

How do we determine just who is a bigot? Quite easily. One need only apply a reasonable test to the opinion expressed by a suspected bigot. If the suspect would, for reasons of skin colour, sexuality, religion, area of origin, or other reasons, deny another individual or group the same basic human or civil right that the suspect would otherwise adamantly advocate for himself, that person is a bigot.

If we choose not to limit their civil or procreative rights, I would then propose that they, as a group, be segregated in some area that would allow them no contact with the rest of humanity, physically or in any virtual sense provided by technology. Their bigotry is insidious; given the chance it will spread among the unwary, uninformed and ill-prepared.

If society does not choose to segregate bigots, and does not choose to limit their reproductive rights, then I propose, since they will only breed more bigots, to help offset the social costs of tolerating their idiocies, and the cost of merely keeping them, that we eat them.

Thus the vile race of bigots, while ineradicable, will at last provide a fundamental and eternal benefit to society, and be enjoyable with perhaps a nice bearnaise sauce and an unassuming Niagara chardonnay.

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