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12 Mar 2021, 1:51 pm

Teach is not a Trump supporter.....I believe she could have been upset that the Buddha was represented in the way it was represented.



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12 Mar 2021, 1:56 pm

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Teach is not a Trump supporter.....I believe she could have been upset that the Buddha was represented in the way it was represented.



She acts like she is by thinking Trump lovers are being attacked here. That is what lot of them do. They think it's a big conspiracy when people criticize him or make fun of him. I wouldn't care if she was against people making fun of him as a person. That would just be her personal opinion and there are people out there that do not like it when people make fun of others or say bad things about them no matter who they are as a person. My mom is like that. She thinks if you want to say bad things about them, go to them about it first and tell them how you feel about them than talking about it behind their backs. That is just gossip.


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12 Mar 2021, 2:11 pm

Trump makes himself a target.....

The Buddha thing is the thing that could be offensive. More than any attack on Trump.



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12 Mar 2021, 2:13 pm

This is just me, but I don't really count Trump as conservative.

He was a power hungry narcissist who craved power. It just so happened that he was able to mobilize the worst elements on the Right to secure his victory. If he could've sailed to victory by pandering to the SJW crowd he would have.

Trump sucks for everybody.


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12 Mar 2021, 2:14 pm

I'm not a Buddhist----I believe in some of what they believe in.

I don't think the people at Charlie Hebdo in France should have been killed----but their representations of the Prophet Mohammed was in bad taste.

It's rather like portraying Jesus in a bikini brief or something like that.



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12 Mar 2021, 2:18 pm

Would anyone have been this upset if the first image showed a mostly-naked Trump nailed to a cross?


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12 Mar 2021, 2:19 pm

I wouldn't care for that image....it's way too extreme.



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12 Mar 2021, 2:20 pm

But....I would just think it's just another tasteless portrayal. I wouldn't seek to "cancel" it. To "cancel" it would confer attention upon it, and paradoxically make it more popular.



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12 Mar 2021, 2:25 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
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Would anyone have been this upset if the first image showed a mostly-naked Trump nailed to a cross?
I wouldn't care for that image....it's way too extreme.  But....I would just think it's just another tasteless portrayal. I wouldn't seek to "cancel" it.  To "cancel" it would confer attention upon it, and paradoxically make it more popular.
But in the interest of "Political Fairness" I should still post it.


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12 Mar 2021, 2:27 pm

This sort of thing has been going on since journalism began.

There was a lot more vociferous political stuff in the papers about 1800 than there is now.

The series on Boss Tweed (circa 1870-1875) was amazing.



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12 Mar 2021, 2:36 pm

Another "Yeah, but what about..." derail?  Let us get this thread back on topic, shall we?

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12 Mar 2021, 2:42 pm

You just GOTTA be kidding! :P



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12 Mar 2021, 2:48 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
You just GOTTA be kidding!
Nope!  Chinese merchants are cashing in on Mr. Trump's image and reputation; and, since they do not always recognize America's copyright laws, they are not paying him anything for it!  I think this is what some Buddhists may mean by "karma"...

:lol:


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12 Mar 2021, 2:52 pm

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mostly-naked Trump

There's something I don't think any of us would be happy to see :eew:


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12 Mar 2021, 2:57 pm

OutsideView wrote:
Fnord wrote:
mostly-naked Trump
There's something I don't think any of us would be happy to see :eew:
Oh, okay ... I was thinking only of the religious parody, not the gross-out effect.


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12 Mar 2021, 3:02 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Trump makes himself a target.....

The Buddha thing is the thing that could be offensive. More than any attack on Trump.


Read her post again, your interpretation in the italics is incorrect.

Teach51 wrote:
I know that probably nobody will object to the above post of Trump as a toilet brush , probably some will object to my objection, but here I am, objecting, nevertheless. Why? Because it is extremely offensive to a minority group here who may be right wing, and in a sense this is telling them it is okay to mock them and who they believe in. Very, very bad taste. Doesn't anybody want to heal the rift of intolerance? Trump has gone, there is no need to perpetuate the political rift here any more. This post may "fit" the rules but it is still unsuitable.


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