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| Re: Putin shows preachy facet in 9/11 NY times op-ed, no sense of irony/futility by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/13/2013, 11:27am PDT | ||||
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| This is one of the reasons for the First Amendment. As has been said, "The answer to speech we disagree with is not to silence the speaker, but to encourage more speech."
This is why it's terrific to have Putin appear in the New York Times. If his ideas are good; we should hear them. If his ideas are literally the worst and stupidest shit since Bandini Mountain*, we can see them, and thus judge for ourselves. It's as I have stated, you can tell immediately when someone is obviously anti-Israel/anti-Semitic, is when they're not talking about residents of a specific town in Illinois and they use the word 'Zionist.' Whenever someone uses the word 'Zionist' to refer to Israel, and not to residents of Zion, Ill., it's clearly someone who is anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic. I created the Usenet newsgroup "alt.politics.white-power" more than 15 years ago specifically to give white supremacists a place to spew their hate. Not because I specifically agree with their ideas, but because I specifically disagree with them. By giving these morons a place to publicly spew their hate and vitriol with impunity, they get to vent and, it's highly likely since they now have a place where what they want to say is on-topic, they're less likely to act out violence to get attention, and this also means those who don't want to see their brand of unpleasantness don't have to read it, while those who do want to see it can converse over issues that they all want to talk about. * Back in the 1980s, there was a commercial showing a guy in a skiing outfit, on skis, climbing up a (presumably) dirt hill. Male announcer on voice-over: Bandini Mountain. Man dares to go where only cows have been! Female voice over, seductively: 'Bandini' is the word for... fertilizer. |
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Putin shows preachy facet in 9/11 NY times op-ed, no sense of irony/futility by 09/12/2013, 9:49am PDT  You whine about hipsters then only criticize form. by 09/12/2013, 1:55pm PDT Repercussions. by 09/12/2013, 2:53pm PDT I'm in a dumpster full of mouldering copypasta and what is this NT by 09/12/2013, 6:11pm PDT I'll take the bait: the last sentence didn't criticize form alone. by 09/12/2013, 6:22pm PDT It's all about the Godamn oil pipelines by 09/12/2013, 9:10pm PDT Confiscating Syria's chemical weapons'll make it easier to drill for oil there! NT by 09/14/2013, 6:02pm PDT What oil? We just want to blow up the Russian pipelines NT by 09/16/2013, 3:15am PDT Re: Putin shows preachy facet in 9/11 NY times op-ed, no sense of irony/futility by 09/13/2013, 11:27am PDT |
