Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: Sanity quote:
ORIGINAL: MariaB Hey, I'm a leftist worm. I just don't lean so far to the left that I keep going round in circles ;) I would be interested to understand what Sanity wrote that was offensive. So far, I heartily agree with him but I sense his words are being twisted and his personality is being assassinated somewhat. Seems to me that Sanity and a few others are trying to keep this on topic, the rest are just using it as an opportunity to hurl bricks. Well bless you Mariab, as they say. Present company excepted In fact I am certain that most who lean left fully deserve to be excepted from that comment It sort of speaks to the heart of my question about it though, why their reaction What is the real motivation to disrupt the debate What "debate"? If your intention is to call attention to human rights abuses and honor a brave and courageous young woman for standing up to such abuses and oppression, then I think many on the left would applaud and support that. Why would there be any kind of debate over such a thing? Whatever "real motivation" might exist to disrupt the debate is in waiting for the other shoe to drop, the proposed solution to all this "Islamism," which not only involves US military action, but entangles us further and deeper into Middle Eastern intrigue. Frankly, it would be a lot easier for the West to oppose such atrocities on moral grounds if we ourselves had a "cleaner" record. If we could look at this situation on a more rational level, we might be able to come up with more long-lasting solutions. But you seem to want to whip up some kind of war fever with an "us vs. them" mentality. Everything you argue for in this regard indicates a mentality stuck inside that particular box, which comes across as narrow and closed-minded. Some people on the right would advocate bombing "them" back to the stone age, a war cry I've heard recently. But then, young women such as Malala Yousafzai are living among "them," which makes the idea of taking military action against "them" all the more complicated.
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