Morning everybody!
I posted this on Facebook but I figured everybody would find this one interesting.
Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word
by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com
The fact is that flying a plane into a building to advance a political agenda through violence is terrorism, just not with a capital T according to Fox News. While the cost of lives between this and 9/11 are not even comparable, what Joseph Stack did was terrorism, cut and dry.
I've been harangued by commenters at the Daily claiming that not being racist is political correctness at its worst. Tell me how not calling this man a terrorist is not political correctness run amok. Not saying that I subscribe to the college of "stop being so polite and call a spade a spade" in order to promote racism, but it shows the hypocrisy in the message if you ask me, which none of you did.
Enjoy your day, and learn something.
1 comment:
Strange how years after we thought we were making progress against racism it's suddenly OK for any idiot to express his/her racist, bigoted, or just plain wrong-headed opinions and expect them to be respected by others. Suddenly the only thing we have to tolerate is intolerance. This is bullying, plain and simple, from the initial aggressiveness to the "you don't have a sense of humor" accusation if you take offense. We haven't stood up to the bullies in a while and we're going to have to be strong for a while before they learn to shut up.
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