Only to be used when you have no valid counter argument…or whenever you feel like it.
^ Exactly.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
I love this.
So you think that racial minorities aren’t oppressed at all anymore? Are you serious? Like it or not, racism is still an issue in society, and ignoring that fact is akin to saying that racism is perfectly okay.
This. Anyone who says minorities/women still aren’t oppresses is an ignorant asshole who needs to open their eyes to the world.
You use this word, “oppressed”; I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Ironically, it is possible for Saudi women to fight back when harassed by that country’s Morals Police. On one recent occasion, a Saudi woman who was hassled by a member of the Mutaween beat the silly little jerk so severely that he had to be hospitalized. Shortly thereafter a Syrian-born Saudi female reacted to similar harassment by pulling a gun and firing at the patrol car, forcing the pest to drive away. Neither of those women was seriously punished for resisting the forces of “safety, authority, and structure” (as one Derby resident described the thugs who attacked Jonathan Villareal). Had they engaged in similar resistance here in the purported “Land of the Free” the would most likely be dead.
Remember the millions of dollars, hundreds of staff and hours of coverage spent on a wedding in London when crises around the globe and here at home festered. Remember the unseemly pas de deux between the press and a reality TV show huckster peddling racially-fraught falsehoods, as both interviewers and the interviewee seek a bump in ratings.
And then please take a moment to remember the eight American soldiers and one contractor killed by an Afghan soldier at the Kabul airport in a war too easily forgotten. Remember the hundreds likely being killed in Syria and Libya, not to mention the death and unrest plaguing countries like the Ivory Coast, which almost never earn more than a mention on our most-watched newscasts.
Remember those who have the least amongst us, struggling after more than a year of unemployment, a long commute they can no longer afford, or the diagnosis of a medical condition that could kill them and bankrupt their family.
The networks couldn’t ignore the devastating storms that killed hundreds in the South, but you had the odd juxtaposition of that news being delivered by anchors sitting in front of Buckingham Palace.
I hope the media continues to focus on assaulting the Donald. He’ll get slaughtered, and the rest of the Republican primary field will come out unscathed. He’s like a political human shield.
I wonder how many people, particularly children, are being sexually abused during these assaults patdowns? And how long will it be before the TSA is sued by these victims? I’m sure when it happens the fed will call it a series of “isolated incidents” and set up some lame fund, while continuing this crap.
Black-and-white Fallacy - presenting only two choices, with one particular product or idea being presented as the better choice.
It’s not a question of left vs. right; it’s a question of right vs. wrong.
Al Gore, 2007, NY Times op-ed
Because one person really knows what is right and wrong for every person on the planet.
To be fair, he’s not saying what’s right and wrong for the billions of people on the planet, but for the planet itself…that’s muuuuch easier - it’s only one!.
Today, a major economic crisis is unfolding. New government programs are started daily, and future plans are being made for even more. All are based on the belief that we’re in this mess because free-market capitalism and sound money failed. The obsession is with more spending, bailouts of bad investments, more debt, and further dollar debasement. Many are saying we need an international answer to our problems with the establishment of a world central bank and a single fiat reserve currency. These suggestions are merely more of the same policies that created our mess and are doomed to fail.”
“The choice we face is ominous: We either accept world-wide authoritarian government holding together a flawed system, or we restore the principles of the Constitution, limit government power, restore commodity money without a Federal Reserve system, reject world government, and promote the cause of peace by protecting liberty equally for all persons. Freedom is the answer.
“I realized that I needed to be an example to my children,” she says. “I needed to be in a better position to make it on my own. That’s when I got really serious about school.”
She pushed herself through college through a combination of local classes and online course offerings, completing her bachelor’s degree in 2006. Two years later, Nolan finished an M.B.A., emerging with $84,000 in student loan debt, she says, but a powerful sense that she had armed herself for success.
