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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/14/2008 : 04:37:30
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, once a highly respected newspaper, now seems to be pandering to rascist scumbags. Check it out:
And vote in the poll. I am pleased to note that the "It's racist!" answer is kicking ass, thanks, in part at least, to Pharyngula. I am not at all pleased that "It's fine!" got any votes whatsoever.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 05/14/2008 : 07:41:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, once a highly respected newspaper, now seems to be pandering to rascist scumbags. Check it out:
And vote in the poll. I am pleased to note that the "It's racist!" answer is kicking ass, thanks, in part at least, to Pharyngula. I am not at all pleased that "It's fine!" got any votes whatsoever.
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Yikes!!! They need to ask? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 10:27:48 [Permalink]
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There must be more than that. It would be so obviously terribly racist otherwise that the journal would never go for it. I suspect that there is an innocent explanation and that we are just reading too much into it (kids wanted their favourite character: curious George, to endorse their favourite candidate; for example).
It would just be too blatant otherwise... Or maybe it is what I want to believe. It'd deserve further investigation for sure... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 10:37:17 [Permalink]
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Well... after a cursory looking into this issue... It is exactly as it appear: a unabashed piece of open racism.
Man! Each time I assume it can't be that bad and decide to trust my fellow human beings; I get proved wrong again.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/14/2008 : 11:47:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Well... after a cursory looking into this issue... It is exactly as it appear: a unabashed piece of open racism.
Man! Each time I assume it can't be that bad and decide to trust my fellow human beings; I get proved wrong again.
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"Nobody ever went broke overestimating the duplicity of the politically inspired nor the the gullibility of the American voter." -- Henry Mencken, brutally paraphresed.
I spent my childhood in GA and can guarentee it. Times might change, but attitudes are set in the brittle stone of their holder's lives. The people in power now are my age or only a little younger.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Simon
SFN Regular
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1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 11:58:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Simon
Well... after a cursory looking into this issue... It is exactly as it appear: a unabashed piece of open racism.
Man! Each time I assume it can't be that bad and decide to trust my fellow human beings; I get proved wrong again.
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"Nobody ever went broke overestimating the duplicity of the politically inspired nor the the gullibility of the American voter." -- Henry Mencken, brutally paraphresed.
I spent my childhood in GA and can guarentee it. Times might change, but attitudes are set in the brittle stone of their holder's lives. The people in power now are my age or only a little younger.
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I guess... I have been living in Mississippi for almost 4 years now.
While racism is very real and present; I think that I mostly noticed it indirectly.
In my experience, people are generally more covert (read, hypocritical) about it...
That's why I was surprised. Not that some people could think that way. But that they could admit it too...
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 17:55:08 [Permalink]
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Here's the Georgia state flag up until 2003...
They later dropped the Confederate connection.
A chuckle from The Onion....
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5r6cg6 |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2008 : 01:43:26 [Permalink]
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| Hurray for CNN's Anderson Cooper who tonight referred to the bar owner and tee shirt maker Mike Norman by name as "stupid" - several times. |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Aerik
New Member
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2008 : 20:14:57 [Permalink]
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| One thing that interests me about this case of racism is that the guy defends it by saying Obama has tiny ears just like Curious George. And yet in all political cartoons -- especially the racist ones -- Obama has ridiculously big ears (Clinton's usually appear normal). |
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Oh, this is a doozy
