What is it with Colleges and Ignorance these days?
See this article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"Waukesha - Convinced that American racism played a role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Waukesha County activists are planning a major new effort to promote racial and ethnic harmony."
American racism played a role in the Sept 11 attacks?! American racism?!
" We need to understand the world; we need to accept the world."
- Mary Baer, co-chairwoman of the Waukesha County Diversity Task Force
..or maybe parts of the world need to accept and understand that suckling at our proverbial teat while simultaneously kneeing us in the proverbial groin kinda makes us wonder if they deserve to be "understood."
"The kickoff date: the second anniversary of the day of horror."
Yep. And their three-year mission: to explore strange new ways of blaming America first; to seek out new lies and new civil distractions; to boldly go deeper than any ass-helmet has gone before!
"Organizers say the connection to terrorism is simple: If Americans were more tolerant of racial and ethnic minorities, we would not evoke hostility abroad and would not have been attacked Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamic extremists from the Middle East."
Newsflash for the dim bulbs: Any social, systemic, personal or narrow-minded racism that may exist among Americans has nada to do with the Middle East. Racism has Everything to do with the Middle East.
Can a muslim in America walk down the street with a copy of the Koran?
Yes.
Can a Christian or Jew walk down the street in Saudi Arabia reading the Torah or the Bible?
No.
America stands for Individualism, Numb-lobe. It is not any intolerence on the part of America that caused Sept 11; it was the intolerence FOR American freedoms by the homocidal Islamist terrorists.
"Some of the reasons it happened are our arrogance and our ignorance," said Mary Baer, co-chairwoman of the Waukesha County Diversity Task Force. "We need to understand the world; we need to accept the world."
As a society we do, Mary. We shovel billions of dollars a year into the collective oil-hole of that all-too-common political dinosaur known as Tyrannus Rectus.
The Islamist terrorists who rule and pollute the Middle East don't fear Racism, they practice it. They hate Freedom. It interferes with their utopian goal that all-men-are-muslim-or-they-shall-die. They fear free elections, freedom of expression, freedom of religeon, free exchange of ideas. They are isolationists and tyrants who fear that any influence of Western culture threatens their own influence on their countrymen.
They ban Western music, movies, television, news...
They want nothing more than to keep those Evil influences away from their huddled masses lest an idea as strong as Liberty actually begin to ring true to them, thus loosening the hold the screeching ululators have on Power.
I remember that there was some issue about President Bush calling the 9-11 terrorists "cowards." "Oh, no! They're so brave and selfless to give their lives for Allah! They're not cowards!"
But, they are. Because they pathetically shake themselves to sleep in a cold sweat in fear that free people -- making their own Independent decisions about life and God -- might come to differant conlusions than they have. A True Believer who secretly doubts his own certainty, when certainty is required, would fear and reject anyone and any culture that does not share or promote his beliefs with his own zeal. Funny thing is; these skidmarks on the shorts of humanity want to take it to murderous extremes. Call me "crazy", but I don't think any group hugs are in the offing.
9-11 was caused by some Islamists' hatred and paranoia of "foreign" (i.e. 18th century) influence, not by any racism that may exist in the hearts of some of the diverse and free people of America.
Sorry I didn't comment--I was too anxious to link to this to stay long enough.
Excellent piece, Bob!
"Skidmarks on the shorts of humanity." A classic. Excellent fisking of a self-hating delusional dipshit, Spork. Someone please send this to Charles at LGF. Somehow I think he'd enjoy it.
Posted by: Freedom's Slave at August 1, 2003 05:32 PMConcerning this slimy remark: "If Americans were more tolerant of racial and ethnic minorities, we would not evoke hostility abroad and would not have been attacked Sept. 11, 2001, by Islamic extremists from the Middle East." I have this to say: Because of my outward appearance, I could pass for an ethnic minority, but I wrote an editorial in my own blog on the theme of "to hell with toleration!" You can learn to tolerate the taste of cod liver oil, but I would rather be accepted for what I am. This is obviously the vapid product of a pseudo-intellectual who gives lip service to diversity, but doesn't take the trouble to personally know people who look, think, and act differently from themselves. There is more to life than the narrow circle of airheads that they associate with! Many of us are convinced that Sept. 11th happened because we were perceived to be weak, and al-Qaeda never anticipated our reaction to their act of war. That's why I'm convinced that if the French and Germans continue to behave like wimps, that will not protect them from future attack.
Posted by: Bloodthirsty Warmonger at August 1, 2003 07:19 PMThank you for that post, 'monger. Clearly those that see "Diversity" as being skin-deep are not only racist, they expose themselves as enemies of true Equality under the Law.
Racism exists; be it white against black, black against Jew, black against white, asian against black, or white against white. But the interest of Government is only "how does the Law treat everyone?", not "how do we, in our hearts and lives, regard each other?".
My favorite quote on THAT subject is from none other than Ronald Reagan:
"America remains on a voyage of discovery, a land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.
But just as we have led the crusade for democracy beyond our shores, we have a great task to do together in our own home. Now, I would appeal to you to invigorate democracy in your own neighborhoods.
Whether we come from poverty or wealth; whether we are Afro-American or Irish-American; Christian or Jewish, from big cities or small towns, we are all equal in the eyes of God. But as Americans that is not enough... we must be equal in the eyes of each other.
We can no longer judge each other on the basis of what we are, but must, instead, start finding out who we are. In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about."
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Posted by: Stafford Ted at January 21, 2004 10:35 PM