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In response to "University sets example in frat scandal" by Robert Phansalkar:
Someday, we'll all realize that we're all just middle-class Americans who want a bite of the same pie. Fat people, gay people, ugly people, stinky people, and gypsies can all be Caucasian and can all be just as easily offended. Stop handicapping yourself with perceived racism; you'll never amount to anything until you realize that success depends on your talent as a capitalist, not a whiner.
The association made with any "ghetto" party on a majority-white campus is likely almost always a negative association that asks participants to imitate a group of people and a culture that they may not have any real dealings with in an ignorant fashion, which intentionally or unintentionally degrades a sub-culture of people at the least, and degrades an entire race (perhaps multiple races) simply by association at its arguably worse.
In response to "Legality of hibjab vital to security" by Danny Tenenbaum:
"Kinda like it's absolutely unacceptable to burn the flag, but freedom of speech demands sacriligous cartoons about Mohammad be printed,"
BS! I'm unaware of anybody being killed over flag-burning. There's also been a notable lack of riot and arson over flag burning.
Do you even know what you're calling BS on? Flag burning and Mohammed cartoons are both free expression. Why do conservatives attack one while claiming the other is acceptable, going so far as to even encourage the cartoons?
i agree that people have irrational criticisms against other cultures when their own ones are just the same, people just don't realize it. people dont understand that many muslims do it as their own choice, though there may be a lot of pressure from society on them. Shaving, make-up and high heels are all really inconvenient and uncomfortable and disguise your true look. You can choose not to do them or wear them, but a majority of women do at least the first two. I don't see how that's any different.
In response to "Draft may alter foreign policy" by Rob Rossmeissl:
And we think the soldier funny in his desert camouflage and Kevlar, a loser who drew poorly in the American lottery and so ended up in Iraq—our most privileged never acknowledging that such men with guns are the only bulwark between us and the present day forces of the Dark Ages with their Kalashnikovs and suicide belts.
In response to "UW erred, lost vital economist" by Ryan Masse:
Actually, I would be horribly ashamed if Madison was home to Friedman's Economic School, the people responsible for Augusto Pinochet and his Fascist regime, the deaths and "disappearances" of tens of thousands of social activists, their friends and family, as a result of the 1973 coup backed by the U.S. government which overthrew the democratically elected administration of Salvador Allende.
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“Why do conservatives attack one while claiming the other is acceptable…”
I not aware of any conservative attacks on flag-burning involving rioting, arson or murder. That would be a key difference with the violent attacks related to the the Mohammed cartoons.
“i agree that people have irrational criticisms against other cultures”
Is it irrational to criticise this kind of “culture”?
Man in Afghanistan is disemboweled, torn limb from limb with motorbikes, then his remains are put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2023831.ece?taliban
“I not aware of any conservative attacks on flag-burning involving rioting, arson or murder. That would be a key difference with the violent attacks related to the the Mohammed cartoons.”
I disagree.
Tim McVeigh, Oklahoma City
Taliban? The Taliban is still around? I thought that mission was accomplished 4 1/2 years ago. What a mighty military we have.
“Tim McVeigh, Oklahoma City”
ROFLMAO
McVeigh was SOOOOOOOO not protesting flag-burning.
McVeigh’s motive was to avenge a bloody 19 April 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Tex., in which some 80 people died and the 1992 catastrophe at Ruby Ridge - a siege and shootout where federal officials shot and killed the wife of survivalist Randy Weaver and their 14-year-old son.
Well, there might have been some flags at Waco that were burned by Bill Clinton’s ATF thugs. Is that what you meant?
“Taliban?”
The moslem war of conquest has been proceeding for over a 1,000 years.
Damn that Bush for not not achieving complete victory by now! Maybe the Dems are right and we need to bring back the draft?
“Flag burning and Mohammed cartoons are both free expression.”
Yeah, but which one gets you marked for murder?
Submit or die, that’s islamic “free expression”.
One of Iran’s most senior clergymen has issued a fatwa on an Azeri writer said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad. The call on Muslims to murder Rafiq Tagi, who writes for Azerbaijan’s Senet newspaper, echoes the Iranian fatwa against Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
It was issued by the conservative Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fazel Lankarani.
The writings of Rafiq Tagi sparked recent demonstrations outside the Azerbaijani embassy in the Iranian capital, Teheran.
The Iranian media is reporting that Grand Ayatollah Lankarani’s followers inside the republic of Azerbaijan wrote to him asking for advice about what they called “the apostate writer”.
They accuse the Azeri writer of portraying Christianity as superior to Islam and Europe as superior to the Middle East.
They allege that he has ridiculed all the sanctities of Islam and done it knowingly, fully aware of the consequences of his action.
In response, Grand Ayatollah Lankarani is said to have issued a fatwa calling for the death of the writer and also the person responsible for publishing his articles.
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you make no sense. none at all.
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I guess I’m knocking the lefty PC ideal of tolerance and respect for all cultural differences. That’s fine, until this ideal runs aground on a culture that is both intolerant and contemptuous of cultural differences. Even that’s not so terrible until the intolerance devolves into riot, arson and murder.
Is that simple enough for you? Or are you too simple?
My bad, everything is Bill Clinton’s fault. You’re going to need Hillary to get elected so you have another Clinton to blame.
It must be nice never having to admit you destabilized the entire Middle East, plunged Iraq into a civil war, never caught Osama bin Laden, and kept the Taliban in Afghanistan. Oh yeah, and that Roe v. Wade thing that got you elected in the first place: nice job doing nothing. I might add the “cleaning of the White House” in 2000 was well overseen by Jack Abramoff and CEOs of the oil companies.
Golf clap for the genious that is the Bush Administration; Reagan would be so proud.
P.S. Don’t try to say NOTHING’s Bush’s fault: I’m not even listening to that bullshit.
“I guess I’m knocking the lefty PC ideal of tolerance and respect for all cultural differences.”
Would you also knock the religious right ideal of respecting cultures only if they’re Christian?
I WOULD knock the religious right about most anthing you’d care to mention, but then I’m an athiest apostate. Of course the Christians hardley ever call for the murder of athiest apostates and I do appreciate that attitude, especially when the moslems call for my be-heading.
Sorry to criticise St Bill but I often wonder how those with Bush Derangement Syndrome maintain that Clinton never made amistake.
PS. I disagree with most of Bush’s policies - I just don’t think we should surrender to those who would turn the clock back 1000 years, treat women like property and murder or enslave anytone who does not submit to Allah.
“I just don’t think we should surrender to those who would turn the clock back 1000 years, treat women like property and murder or enslave anytone who does not submit to Allah.”
And you don’t think you’re making any generalizations here?
“And you don’t think you’re making any generalizations here?”
You ever hear of Mein Kampf? You would have ignored Adolf Hitler in 1938, probably be a big “Peace in our time” proponent.
Do you ever read any of the speeches? Even the most moderate muslims would kill you if tore up a koran. They ALL beleive that apostates should be killed. Find me one that doesn’t and I’ll show you the fatwah for HIS death.
Yhe USA has been in Iraq longer than WW II mostly because of the elite, efete internal fifth column working against it’s interests.
Folks, we had better start taking this war seriously. These people are out to kill us and cause as much chaos and mayhem as possible.
Here are some real General-izations:
America cannot walk away from Iraq without risking another world war. That warning was sounded at the Kennedy School forum Nov. 17 by Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), the man responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East.
“We can walk away from this enemy, but they will not walk away from us,” Abizaid told the forum audience during a discussion titled “The Long War.”
“We have not failed yet and we will not fail if we all understand what we have to do. If we can stay together nothing can stop us and we can make the world a better place.”
Abizaid cited what he called the three greatest challenges facing the world - the Arab-Israeli conflict; the rise of extremist groups “with a dark vision of the future”; and, specifically, the dangers posed by “Shia revolutionary thought.”
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/11.30/15-abizaid.html
You would have ignored Adolf Hitler in 1938, probably be a big “Peace in our time” proponent.
Do you ever read any of the speeches? Even the most moderate muslims would kill you if tore up a koran. They ALL beleive that apostates should be killed. Find me one that doesn’t and I’ll show you the fatwah for HIS death.Funny how the more you accuse me of being Neville Chamberlin,
“You would have ignored Adolf Hitler in 1938”
the more you resemble Adolf Hitler,
“Even the most moderate muslims would kill you if tore up a koran. They ALL beleive that apostates should be killed.”
“the man responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East.”
Exactly who we should be listening to.