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Is the rhetoric of some right wing commentators dangerous?
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Skreeran
I don't think many people take them seriously.
And if they do, I don't think they'll act on it.
The media sucks. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. are all guilty of some sort of partisan bias, if just because of who pays the bills. They're biased at best and narrowcasting at worst.
Conservatives call Liberals Communists, Liberals call Conservatives Terrorists... Fact is, we all need an "us" to get behind and a "them" to hate. In World War 2 "us," the Allies, hated "them" the Axis powers, and our media reflected that (just look at comics/cartoons from the war. Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, and Captain America outsmarting those whacky nazis). In the Cold War it was "us," the capitalists, versus "them," those dirty commies. Now, with no one outside our own country to hate, we've gone back to hating eachother.
I'm just a high school student, so I may be wrong, but it seems like it's just natural human behavior to group up with individuals like ourselves, and to hate any groups that aren't like ourselves. The definition of similarity can be broad (Capitalists versus Communists) or narrow (Whites versus Blacks), but us vs. them seems to be one of the foundations fo human behavior.
But I digress. No, I don't think it's dangerous.
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mudfish
This thread is now about anime. Which anime is your favorite? Mine is Rozen Maiden.
desu~
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Neffy
This thread is now about anime. Which anime is your favorite? Mine is Rozen Maiden.
desu~I like Monster.
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Arathian
This thread is now about anime. Which anime is your favorite? Mine is Rozen Maiden.
desu~I like Monster.
pokemon
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Monday
This thread is now about anime. Which anime is your favorite? Mine is Rozen Maiden.
desu~I like Monster.
pokemon
POKEMON!
Naruto and to a lesser extent...
Seriously? Seriously Elaus and
IronGolem
? My guess is the two of you are left wing am I right?
Consider this: I like listening to Glenn Beck (Shawn Hannity no, he's just paid by the republicans, but still).
I agree with Skreeran.
Edit: Just realized IronGolem's post was about anybody reacting, my bad.
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Arathian
Funden, there is a reason why i really lol at the conservatives of USA. I am considered a Greek conservative, but i found the USA's conservative views rediculus in most aspects.
Biggest objection i have, to name, is that they mix religion with politics
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Monday
Funden, there is a reason why i really lol at the conservatives of USA. I am considered a Greek conservative, but i found the USA's conservative views rediculus in most aspects.
Biggest objection i have, to name, is that they mix religion with politics
And how is that bad? Atheists get angry when we mix our beliefs in politics, yet when they force us to abandon ours they are forcing us to believe theirs. Isn't that rather hypocritical?
Edit: And I"m not saying that I use them all the time, but when I'm forced to not be able to show my beliefs in a country where wwe have the freedom of it... that makes me rather angry.
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Interest
*is responding*
Yes. Some constructive response that was.
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hybridpunk
*is responding*
Yes. Some constructive response that was.
Hi Pot, meet Kettle.
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Interest
*is responding*
Yes. Some constructive response that was.
Hi Pot, meet Kettle.
You didn't understand my vent comment at all. Did you.
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Arathian
Funden, there is a reason why i really lol at the conservatives of USA. I am considered a Greek conservative, but i found the USA's conservative views rediculus in most aspects.
Biggest objection i have, to name, is that they mix religion with politics
And how is that bad? Atheists get angry when we mix our beliefs in politics, yet when they force us to abandon ours they are forcing us to believe theirs. Isn't that rather hypocritical?
Edit: And I"m not saying that I use them all the time, but when I'm forced to not be able to show my beliefs in a country where wwe have the freedom of it... that makes me rather angry.
because USA is an no-specific-religion country. When a serious party involves politics with a specific sect of a religious group there IS a problem.
Atheists(and others, will explain later) say: no religion because religions= christianity. Now, need i to remind you that there is a big % of muslims, budhists etc? What about them? No religion means it's all equal for all religions and not about a % of the population.
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Monday
Funden, there is a reason why i really lol at the conservatives of USA. I am considered a Greek conservative, but i found the USA's conservative views rediculus in most aspects.
Biggest objection i have, to name, is that they mix religion with politics
And how is that bad? Atheists get angry when we mix our beliefs in politics, yet when they force us to abandon ours they are forcing us to believe theirs. Isn't that rather hypocritical?
Edit: And I"m not saying that I use them all the time, but when I'm forced to not be able to show my beliefs in a country where wwe have the freedom of it... that makes me rather angry.
because USA is an no-specific-religion country. When a serious party involves politics with a specific sect of a religious group there IS a problem.
Atheists(and others, will explain later) say: no religion because religions= christianity. Now, need i to remind you that there is a big % of muslims, budhists etc? What about them? No religion means it's all equal for all religions and not about a % of the population.
I don't mind at all if muslims and buddhists etc bring their religious views in.
Besides, Atheism can be considered a religion in and of itself. And since there is no specific religion... why Atheism then? It should be a blend.
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hybridpunk
Christianity
: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
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Monday
Christianity
: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
1. No.
2. Many symbolic things in many religions.
3. Not all believe in the original sin
4. The "talking snake" was the devil...
Anything else?
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