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Be sarcastic all you want, but he also called her a cunt. I hate Sarah Palin but that’s not acceptable.
No you’re right, calling her a cunt was too far. I just saw an opportunity for a joke and couldn’t resist taking it 😉
Here is the transcript of the letter sent by the professor that inspired students to protest for his firing:
“Dear Rashida,
When you first described the new structure for Day of Absence / Day of Presence at a past faculty meeting (where no room was left for questions), I thought I must have misunderstood what you said. Later emails seemed to muddy the waters further, while inviting commitments to participate. I now see from the boldfaced text in this email that I had indeed understood your words correctly.
There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and under-appreciated roles (the theme of the Douglas Turner Ward play Day of Absence, as well as the recent Women’s Day walkout), and a group or coalition encouraging another group to go away. The first is a forceful call to consciousness which is, of course, crippling to the logic of oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.
You may take this letter as a formal protest of this year’s structure, and you may assume I will be on campus on the Day of Absence. I would encourage others to put phenotype aside and reject this new formulation, whether they have ‘registered’ for it already or not. On a college campus, one’s right to speak — or to be — must never be based on skin color.
If there was interest in a public presentation and discussion of race through a scientific / evolutionary lens, I would be quite willing to organize such an event (it is material I have taught in my own programs, and guest lectured on at Evergreen and elsewhere). Everyone would be equally welcome and encouraged to attend such a forum, irrespective of ethnicity, belief structure, native language, political leanings, or position at the college. My only requirement would be that people attend with an open mind, and a willingness to act in good faith.
If there is interest in such a event, please let me know …”
[sarcasm] Sounds like a KKK member to me. [/sarcasm]
I don’t know the other two but Bill Maher is a piece of shit.
What has he done? He can be quite an ass at times and I disagree with him on many things but I appreciate his views on religion and political correctness.
Just for starters, he’s a massive misogynist. And because I’m a liberal, I’ll use a conservative site:
http://www.lifezette.com/popzette/misogynist-bill-maher-strikes-again/
He is also bigoted against Christians(and any other religion for that matter).
Bachmannn
What about her?
He is also bigoted against Christians(and any other religion for that matter).
I think that’s why Darthrush said he liked him. Apparently it’s not cool to be prejudice against black people, or hispanic people, or gay people, or Muslims (indeed it isn’t), but **** all those Christians we don’t want their kind around here.
For the record, there are a lot of nice Christian people. Liberals too.
Not all of them are Bible-belt frauds.
The entire concept of a “Day of Absence” “in which white people were invited to leave campus for a day” is just stupid.
That worked well 50 years ago.
Bachmannn
What about her?
Nothing, they just kept spelling it with three "N"s.
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Bachmannn
What about her?
Nothing, they just kept spelling it with three "N"s.
Yeah, Lifezette is pretty awful, it was just one of the first ones that showed up in my search.
Bachmannn
What about her?
Nothing, they just kept spelling it with three "N"s.
Oh.
For the record, there are a lot of nice Christian people. Liberals too.
Not all of them are thejediknighthusezni.
ITFY
I tried looking that up and couldn’t find anything that made sense. What does “ITFY” stand for?
I tried looking that up and couldn’t find anything that made sense. What does “ITFY” stand for?
Improved that for you.
Perhaps internalized that for you?
That’s disgusting.
I tried looking that up and couldn’t find anything that made sense. What does “ITFY” stand for?
Improved that for you.
Ah.
He is also bigoted against Christians(and any other religion for that matter).
I think that’s why Darthrush said he liked him. Apparently it’s not cool to be prejudice against black people, or hispanic people, or gay people, or Muslims (indeed it isn’t), but **** all those Christians we don’t want their kind around here.
Absolutely not how I feel. After reading up on what Frink linked about Maher, my opinion of him as a person has definitely changed. What I liked about Maher when it came to religion is when Maher would elaborate upon why he thought religion was not good for the world. I don’t condone when he is an asshole, and as I said before, after doing more reading on him, I don’t put him up on that pedestal of my favorite liberals from a conservative perceptive (that now belongs just to Dave Rubin and Sam Harris) And I heavily prefer Christianity to Islam like one of my favorite atheists, Sam Harris. Islam inherently contains basic and clear principles that are violent and oppressive to women. I’m not attacking Muslims when I say that, I’m attacking Islamic beliefs/ideals that are seen in the Qur’an.
Islam inherently contains basic and clear principles that are violent and oppressive to women. I’m not attacking Muslims when I say that, I’m attacking Islamic beliefs/ideals that are seen in the Qur’an.
IMO most religions can seem downright psychotic if you read their religious text and assume a completely literal interpretation. You may need to meet some Muslims who don’t take the Qur’an literally (may be hard to do where you live, but I’ve probably met hundreds in my travels in Muslim countries–and zero who take it completely literally). You may find the religion they actually practice (as opposed to the one you’ve read about) is no more violent and oppressive than that of Christians and Jews who also don’t take their religious texts completely literally.
The three largest Muslim countries have all elected female leaders. Now, this obviously doesn’t mean they are a wonderland of perfect gender equality (any more than it would mean it if the US someday managed to elect a woman), but it does point to the fact that the “wearing a burkha five steps behind her husband” idea of women in Islam is a gross stereotype, a conflation of an extreme minority with the whole. Women may have to work twice as hard to get half the recognition of men, sure–but that can happen in Muslim countries too, not just the US 😉
That said, there are lots of violent and oppressive people out there, no doubt. Did they learn this behavior from their religion, or did they seek out/create an interpretation of their religion that justified their already-existing behavior? I’m very much inclined to think the latter. In a similar vein, Fox News doesn’t mean the entire concept of news outlets is bad. It means people who are inclined to seek out or invent news to suit their existing worldview will create a bad news outlet.
I’m not sure why you singled out Fox. Yes, they are terrible, but they aren’t the only network whose brand is polarized, often misleading political party propaganda. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, they are all guilty of the same garbage.
False equivalency.
False equivalency.
Actually, I agree they all have a significant conservative slant. But I’m not talking about bias, which to some degree is unavoidable (big corporations have a bias in favor of big corporations, news at 11). What I’m talking about is outright discarding news you don’t like and seeking out/inventing news you do like, both by the network AND the viewer. Fox is merely the most extreme MSM example of this (nobody else ran the Obama the secret Muslim story into the ground, for example), but it does happen to a lesser degree elsewhere. Very few news outlets actually try to be centrist/unbiased. I don’t think the Washington Post’s flirtation with that will last very long, although I’m pleased with it for the moment. Corporations gotta corporate, they’ll swing right like everyone else eventually.
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One of President Donald Trump’s closest confidants, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, has now become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign.
Cohen confirmed to ABC News that House and Senate investigators have asked him “to provide information and testimony” about any contacts he had with people connected to the Russian government, but he said he has turned down the invitation.
“I declined the invitation to participate, as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered,” Cohen told ABC News in an email Tuesday.
After Cohen rejected the congressional requests for cooperation, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to grant the chairman, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, and ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, blanket authority to issue subpoenas as they deem necessary.