WyrdRich
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Time to change the subject....how about smoking, and how nasty it is? 
That's one of the things we are supposed to talk about, Chymes. Now if someone wanted to suggest there were positive aspects to smoking, I think we'd have ourselves another example of things you can't say.
You have now made this post about things that you are unable to say....Go ahead say them!!!
Actually Domi, this is an entirely different post. I blew it on the other one and issued an apology. You quote it a bit further down, but I guess you needed to vent a bit more first
No one was saying you don't have free speech...You aired your concerns about a particular story...You used your own words....You got flamed! Where was free speech not allowed? Instead of apologizing which it seemed was the original intention of this thread you have shifted it to poor pitiful WyrdRich....Everything you received you brought upon yourself!
Yeah, I indicated I stepped on my dick. Trying to take a lesson from the experience and explore how such things happen, is how we grow.
To refresh your memory this is what YOU wrote last night.
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Ok, so can somebody explain to me just why I had to click to the second page in the link before I get enough information to figure out that the guy who murdered those people in the Utah mall was a Muslim?
Yup. Pretty sensationalistic fact. When the American media ignores an opportunity to exploit one of those, it trips my radar.
Which was mentioned in all of the related links to the story as well as in the original
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It's an act of terrorism. By a Muslim. On American soil. Why is it on page 2?
And there is where I lost any chance of pulling that thread back where I intended it to go. I wonder if this is how a pro athlete feels when they watch tape of a critical missed shot?
Maybe if I hadn't used the word terrorist... That's the word I use for crazy violence. Tell a shopkeeper you are going to burn down his store, the charge will be "making terrorist threats" in a lot of states. When I think of Columbine, Oklahoma City, the shooting at the Jewish school in LA a few years ago, that's the word that pops into my mind. People aren't mindreaders, I'm going to have to make an effort to use that word more carefully.
Your words....Offensive? Well thought out? Racist?
We kinda covered the 'rascist' thing already. That word is inappropriate. Islamophobe might be a better choice.
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No, you didn't offer a solution. It was inaccurate of me to say otherwise. If your analysis of the situation is correct though, then the solution would be that people must be forced to conform. That I'm going to have a problem with. The kind of problem where I go join somebody's Army of Resistance and bring my own ammo.
You act like you are being forced to conform to a specific mind set....Good luck with that argument!...It seems that the majority of what you speak of I can find while watching Fox News....You CONFORM strictly to a conservative agenda...It seems you lack the ability to think outside the box...However I do think you do take bigotry/racism further than most conservatives just in the fact that they possess the common sense to keep their mouths closed
Again Domi, ( I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to say your name in my head. Is it "Do Me Guy?) this is a different thread. If you think I'm a rigid adherent to any particular "line," then you obviously haven't read very many of my threads or posts. I believe Conservative solutions are the best to many social ills, but I'm not a kool-aid drinker.
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Let's just handle this the easy way, Julia (I think it's the right way too.) My OP last night sucked. I blew it. It wound up on the screen easily taken the way it was. I apologize to anyone who may have been offended.
Seems you decided not to accept it. Don't wait around for another.
Why couldn't you leave things at that?....But Nooooooo! Had to add this little gem.
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So, do we achieve conformity on the "1984" model, or the "Brave New World" paradigm? I'm not liking those choices.
As I explained at the time, that line was an lighthearted attempt to move this thread back towards this thread, with someone I know is quite familiar with at least one of those books.
Poor WyrdRich can't spew racial/religious hatred without getting dragged on to the carpet....Sell it somewhere else...I'm not buying!!!
Then don't.
Free speech is wonderful....
Now here is something we can agree on. I'm passionate about it, passionate enough that when I see something that makes me think it's being messed with, I see a bit of red and have been known to just lower my head and charge. It's a dumb tactic, you run into walls and step in nasty stuff. I'm a stubborn sort though, I'm going to pick myself up and come back for round 2 with that adrenalin working for me and my eyes open.
Go ahead spew your hate...
That wasn't my intention. I meant to question why a sensationalistic media wasn't cashing in on an opportunity to do so. The ratings would have been huge.
It's your floor...Just don't be surprised when someone mops your ass with it. (figuratively speaking of course...Mod11 is very particular about being to mean spirited...lol)
My ass has been kicked before and probably will be again. It's the price of being a smart-ass, opinionated, jerk. I think the Mods also take a dim view of any sort of playing around inside the quoted passages. I know it causes me to immediately lose whatever ammount of respect I might have had for the credibility of another poster, even if that amount was pretty much nil anyway.
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