Jacoby wrote:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Are you butthurt that he's not a "far right" hillbilly populist like Rick Santorum?
MarketAndChurch wrote:
America is not a racist country, if racists exist in it, then they do, but racists exist in Europe and we don't call Europeans racist, racists exist in China and we don't call the chinese racist, or the Australians. Don't judge an entire nation by the actions and feelings of a tiny majority.
America is the least xenophobic country in history.
America has issues with sexism, that is fine, we are working those kinks out, and I don't even think it exists to the level those on the left say that it does.
America is not homophobic, though many homophobes exist and are largely christian, but one is not a homophobe for simply opposing gay marriage. that charge confuses things.
America is not islamophobic, we hate the worse of Islam which has culminated into a movement, and so should the rest of the world. If Christofacists were to arise in south america or here at home and did on par what fringe muslim jihadist movements are doing, we would appropriately hate them, so would the left, and so should christians world wide.
You don't have to love the status quo, but lets at least acknowledge what this status quo is.
Of course America is racist as is the rest of North America and Europe(this sort of issue affects the entire world). But American racism is asymmetrical. And contrary to feminist propaganda we really don't have
isshoos with sexism any longer.
And DancingDanny, the kind of ridicule you describe is very much how societies function: There is a social order and people try to preserve it and one of the tools they have is to make social rules against criticizing society and questioning the Status Quo.
16 Oct 2012, 10:56 am
