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Originally posted by Claeren@Aug 14 2004, 02:52 PM
hhmm...
- "FAR more" does not mean everyone.
- There are billions of people out there, all i am saying is that there were millions that had a strong argument against Bush's post 9/11 policies and they, until recently, were not properly represented in AMERICAN media. The reason the American media had that predisposition? A strong emotional and illogical response premised, in my opinion, upon again, bigoted and racist notions of the world.
-As was stated earlier about O'Reilly, people on the right, IMHO, seem to have a habit of having a plan and are looking for a reason to put it into action. The reasoning is second to the action (Intertwined with the very definition of the "right" on the spectrum). There is, in my experience, a common feeling in the States that Arab's "only understand force" and that "America has a right to do what it need to do". Both, in my opinion, are premised upon elitist and subconsciously (or not) racist notions of the world.
I honestly commend you, being on the right and while maintaining the ideals and values of that position being able to separate race and revenge against an entire people, from what you perceive the issues to be. But i stand by my original assertion that the far right wing America, the same that Bill O'Reilly represents, and the same that pushed Bill Mahar off the air are in fact less likely to be able to do so, and are in fact far more likely to be racist or bigoted. I am SURE we have different ideas of what constitutes racism though so... whole can of worms there....
Sorry though, i did not mean to suggest that you fit into that category, just that many AMERICANS on the right of their spectrum do….
Of course you have argued/will argue/could argue that makes ME bigoted, but this is all for the sake of conversation and how does one make ANY assertion in a conversaton without making some sort of presumption.....
Claeren.
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To be honest I don't appreciate the extreme on either side of the equation ... far left or far right. They're both nuts.
You, however seem to take the far worst of the right side and use them to paint a pretty broad stroke against people with differing views than you.
Trust me. It's very possible to be pro removing a brutal dictator from power while still not wearing a sheet over one's head. I do it every day. I have sheets, I just don't wear them except the time I went as a ghost for Halloween.
I'm not racist. I'm not sexist. I'm not elitist. I am however a person that believes in confronting problems head on, something that I feel is done much more often by politicians on the right side of the equation.
Trying to use the extreme on the right to prove a leftist point is dangerous. Only a matter of time until that extreme left gets pulled out of the closet.