Interesting use of the word "bigotry" in a sentence from the Oxford Dictionary:
Definition of bigotry in English:
bigotry
Syllabification: big·ot·ry
Pronunciation: /ˈbigətrē /
NOUN Bigoted attitudes; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself: the report reveals racism and right-wing bigotry
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Here's my problem. If bigotry is intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself then it is a bipartisan effort. Honest individuals acknowledge that fact.
One can safely say our political environment has become bigoted bordering on insanity.
The US did not maintain a troop presence in Iraq because Maliki's government required that it have legal jurisdiction over our soldiers and be able to try them in Iraqi courts for any actions they might take, something America has never and would never stand for. This FACT is conveniently overlooked by the chest-pounders in the GOP bitching that we should have left a residual force.
Yes, I posted the Zakarian article on my site on which he made the same point.
Of course the nitwits overlook this. It doesn't fit their template.
What is this twisted obsession with race? What is the agenda behind it?
Anon @1:31 PM, are you sure you're on the correct thread? There's nothing in today's post about race.
RN: If bigotry is intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself then it is a bipartisan effort. Honest individuals acknowledge that fact.
In the first place, that's not how bigotry is defined at all. Bigotry means unjustified hostility toward people different from oneself, whether different in opinion or in some other way.
People who hate gays or blacks just because they're gay or black are bigots, even though their hostility is not based on differences of opinion.
Hostility based on differences of opinion, conversely, is not necessarily bigotry. I am hostile to homophobes and racists because of their homophobic and racist opinions, but that hostility is perfectly justified, therefore it is not bigotry.
Second, anyone who thinks bigotry is equally distributed between right and left is delusional. The right wing is awash in racism and homophobia. There is nothing remotely equivalent on the left, except according to the laughably Orwellian right-wing standard that opposing religious gay-haters is itself somehow a form of bigotry.
Shaw, not sure you saw this, and it relates to the Cheney cartoon...
Shep Smith of FOX News has said the same people who were wrong about Iraq the first time [Cheney, Pearl, et al] want us to go in again. I am stunned that a FOX News person would drift so far off the reservation.
While people like Boehnor criticize our President and then run away from questions when asked for his solutions, at least someone on the right has had the courage to tell it like it is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/shep-smith-the-same-peopl_n_5493655.html
I was a bigotmist once....but then I divorced my second wife and I was all legal again.
Infidel 753, Did you look at the link? If you did you know I simply quoted what was displayed there.
I stand by my response to the linked definition.
If you believe I'm delusional SO BE IT.
The damage in Iraq is done and predictable. We gave them a timeline and all they had to do is wait.
Given enough time they will eliminate each other, kill the ones who don't agree.
We need to become energy independent, ban gasoline engines and private autos. We have far to many homes who are air conditioned and that uses too much electricity and increases global warming. Heat your home with solar or get blankets.
After we become energy independent we can just ignore the middle east and let them go back to riding camels and eating dates. After all we don't really care about innocent people getting murdered because that has been their culture for centuries
"After all we don't really care about innocent people getting murdered because that has been their culture for centuries."
That hasn't always been true:
"The fact of the history of science in the Islamic world is that from about 750 CE to 1250 CE, the "Golden Age" of science was led by Arab-Islamic scholars. Following the Quran's advice that "The scholar's ink is more sacred than the blood of martyrs", Muslims gave us Arabic numerals, algebra, algorithms, and alchemy; they gave us our names of most of the stars visible to the eye: Aldebaran, the Andromeda galaxy, Betelgeuse, Deneb, Rigel, Vega, and hundreds more; following the Quran's teaching "For every disease, Allah has given a cure," Arab-Islamic doctors furthered the art of surgery, built hospitals, developed pharmacology, and compiled all the world's medical knowledge into comprehensive encyclopedias and the seminal Canon of Medicine; and they advanced art and architecture beyond what even the mighty Greeks and Romans had begun."
More HERE on how fundamentalism in the Muslim world stopped the advancement of science and in the Muslim world.
Yep, that was then, this is now. They have Islamic fundamentalism and we have Christian fundamentalism.
All in the name of Allah and God...
from about 750 CE to 1250 CE, the "Golden Age" of science was led by Arab-Islamic scholars.
This is a common claim, but somewhat misleading. The so-called "Islamic" golden age was more of a revival of Hellenistic (pagan Greco-Persian) civilization under Islamic rule, fueled by the translation of ancient Greek works into Arabic and Aramaic. Some of the rulers of that era were secular and pluralistic to a degree unimaginable in Islam as it exists today, which accounts for their tolerance of such un-Islamic thinking. Many of the leading scientists and philosophers were not Muslims or held views which were considered wildly heretical; in my own studies I was almost shocked at how openly many of the leading poets and thinkers of that time voiced their contempt for the Islamic religion. Muslim clerics and theologians bitterly opposed them at ever turn, and eventually defeated them after the Ash'ari theological revolution of the early 12th century, led by the theologian al-Ghazâli. After this triumph of Islam over neo-Hellenistic secularism, the Middle East fell into stagnation.
Crediting Islam for the achievements of the golden age of 750-1100 listed in your citation is like crediting Catholicism for the achievements of Copernicus and Galileo.
It's a complex subject. Anyone who wants to know more about it should read this book.
Thanks for that clarification, Infidel753. I did not know that history.
Like you said Shaw, all of this is Bush's fault. With the overwhelming majority of congress he went into Iraq.
I was against it and still am but the surrender and apology president we have now has just made it worse. You have obama and clinton saying, wow they were taken by surprise. Of course one of them learns everything from the news. VA, IRA, NSA, targeting fox, F&F, wow didn't know that was happening until I saw it on the news.
This Iraq issue is just another vast right wing conspiracy, we were flat broke, those women are just trailer trash and what blue dress.
An Administration you can believe in.
skudrunner: "This Iraq issue is just another vast right wing conspiracy, we were flat broke, those women are just trailer trash and what blue dress."
skudrunner, you apparently are lost in the wrong presidency.
Changing the subject to the Clintons is trollish behavior. You can write about the Clintons in a few years when Hillary is your president.
Mkay?
And yes, it is Bush's fault.
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