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I'm no judge myself. Your disclosure is safe with me.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm probably doing it incorrectly. My usage of internet lingo is like Al Gore doing the Macarena.
I'm no judge myself. Your disclosure is safe with me.
yes, and in the process he seems to be creating a totem pole of religious zealots (with muslems at the top) based on a cultural bias against the arab world. and hitchens always seems to take the worst examples of what he argues against in order to make his arguments stronger. in most cases he takes the extreme factions of faith and in this article's case he argues against individuals he claims to be 'liberal' who are anything but that.
Nuance:
I'll never take you seriously again.Another in my cultural programming, ruthlessly exposed on SpursTalk.
/Blue
Nor should you.
Randum interetz jackassez canot bee trvsted.
Hitchens spent too much time in bars. He may have developed a bad habit or two.
The exact first thing I thought.
I have mixed feelings on Christopher Hitchens. One one hand, he's a very smart man and I will never accuse him of under thinking an issue. On the other hand, he has such a hatred for all religions that the way he views Islam is framed by this very world view.
I do think Christopher Hitchens - to quote Barkley - must be rolling over in his grave to have someone like DarrinS using his articles to supposedly make a point.
Indeed.
The exact first thing I thought.
Chris Hitchens isn't dead yet, bro.
lol
I've done that.
You missed my joke, WH. There is a reason why I said to quote Barkley. :p
@Manny:
Too oblique for me. Maybe I was out of turn.
On inside the NBA Charles Barkley once said someone had rolled over in their grave while they were still alive. I can't remember who the original was, but of course they gave him but he says it on a regular basis no with no regard to the heartbeat or lack there of of his subject. Its a running joke.
Being an NBA board - political forum or not - I think most will get the joke.
I think it was Larry Bird. IIRC, he was talking about the then-awful Celtics and said Larry Bird must be rolling around in his grave.
A huge number of liberals have already decided that in some way Muslims cons ute a race of their own, or at any rate that criticism of their religion can be construed as "racist." (The fact that the Quran contains many racist observations about Jews will mean that this card can and will be used to turn an almost infinite number of tricks. Still, I predict that liberals will regret handing Muslims such a handy alibi for any criticism of their faith.)
A strawman. I have never said that any criticism of Islam is "racist", and I doubt many other commentators have. Could the author point out where someone has said that any criticism of Islam is inherently racist?
The author conflates "support for the mosque/freedom of religion" with "support for all things Islam", which is silly.
For all you old folks, the !!!11!! thing is from online gaming, where players must usually type while in the middle of battle; hence the punctuation errors. It's usually used along with "leetspeak", ie. OMG JOO n00bz I pwned u!!!11!
that's l33t speak, you noob!
We won't talk about the ing senior discount I got at Chicken Express this weekend, either!
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