Yet more problematic stuff

[JimC]

Cunt, you were recently suspended for trolling, particularly in deliberately and maliciously mis-representing other posters. You have continued in the same vein in many posts. Here is a representative sample:

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 8#p1821958

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 9#p1821549

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 4#p1821124

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 0#p1821130

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 7#p1821287

http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 2#p1821402

When you add that to your clear contempt for forum processes, in the constant references to suspending others, you leave Brian and I no choice but to suspend you for 2 weeks.

[pErvinalia]

[Jason]

He's a sucker for punishment.

[Rum]

Twot.

[Scot Dutchy]

It could not happen to a nicer person.

[Joe]

In Cunt's defense.... .... I got nothing.

I will enjoy a break from his tiresome blatherskite.

[pErvinalia]

[Animavore]

This is how journalists get shot.

[Svartalf]

nothing like a good crusade, eliminate all the muslime scum... and while were at it, give Yerushalayim back to the Christians who are it's natural and legitimate owners, down with Israel, God chased them off and has not rescinded the order.

[Brian Peacock]

This is how journalists get shot.

Talia Lavin could teach Laura Ingraham a lot about journalism

Ordinarily, it would not be considered newsworthy that a private university hired a journalist with extensive experience covering the far-right to teach an undergraduate journalism course based on her expertise. But because said journalist is right-wing outrage target Talia Lavin, Fox News aired multiple segments about New York University hiring Lavin (who formerly worked at Media Matters). In one segment, Fox host Laura Ingraham even referred to Lavin as a “journo-terrorist.”

Lavin is no stranger to right-wing outrage. About a year ago, she made a mistake while working as a fact-checker for The New Yorker, misidentifying the tattoo on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and veteran as white supremacist imagery when in fact it was a symbol from his platoon while deployed in Afghanistan. Lavin corrected the error within minutes, apologized, and deleted the tweet she had written about it “so as not to spread misinformation.” Despite the quick correction and apology, ICE’s official Twitter account posted a clarification about the tattoo in question and a press statement that called out Lavin by name. After that, the entire right-wing media ecosystem followed suit.

They found Lavin an irresistible target for far-right audiences: a Jewish, progressive female journalist who had publicly made a mistake. She resigned from her job after making the error, but that didn’t stop right-wing media from giving the events wall-to-wall coverage. What ensued was anti-Semitic and misogynistic harassment targeting Lavin online for weeks, with her pictures posted to anonymous message boards and her Twitter mentions flooded with violent threats and insults. Nazi sympathizer Milo Yiannopoulos even bragged about harassing her with a coded neo-Nazi symbol.

All of which explains why right-wing media jumped at a new opportunity to feed the many anti-Semitic, misogynistic trolls in their audience, using Lavin’s upcoming teaching position at New York University’s journalism school. Fox News aired multiple segments with the news of Lavin’s hiring, with Ingraham focusing on it during prime time. The hypocrisy of Ingraham’s outrage over Lavin was underscored by an earlier segment in which Ingraham painted conservatives as martyrs of liberal attacks against free speech on college campuses....

[trdsf]

In Cunt's defense.... .... I got nothing.

I will enjoy a break from his tiresome blatherskite.

Oh, I twitfiltered him ages ago. And the average intelligence of the board immediately doubled.

[rainbow]

How tolerant are you of devout Christian literalists who donate money to anti-LGBT groups and oppose same-sex marriage? Would you say super-tolerant?

As long as they are cooked properly, I tolerate them reasonably well, thank you.

[rainbow]

I am not conservative or right wing - I'm classical liberal and tend to the libertarian - and I am liberal on most issues.

Drivel. Liberal implies a tolerance of other views and creeds. That includes Islam.

It is really a twatty thing to do to contradict oneself.

Camille Desmoulins, a famous revolutionary, once said "there must be no freedom for the foes of freedom". Islam, especially in its modern, totalitarian forms, will not grant others the tolerance that liberal thinkers normally grant those of diverging opinions, ergo, it must be expunged rather than tolerated.

I've enjoyed a number of meals with Muslim friends where I've enjoyed a glass of good red wine. So far I've not been beheaded for doing so.

[rainbow]

Drivel. Liberal implies a tolerance of other views and creeds.

Do liberals (in your understanding) tolerate all views? Even illiberal ones?

If they are truly liberal, then they will tolerate views, but not actions that will restrict the liberties of others.

...something that the Weimar Republic discovered was better in theory than in practice.

[Svartalf]

I am not conservative or right wing - I'm classical liberal and tend to the libertarian - and I am liberal on most issues.

Drivel. Liberal implies a tolerance of other views and creeds. That includes Islam.

It is really a twatty thing to do to contradict oneself.

Camille Desmoulins, a famous revolutionary, once said "there must be no freedom for the foes of freedom". Islam, especially in its modern, totalitarian forms, will not grant others the tolerance that liberal thinkers normally grant those of diverging opinions, ergo, it must be expunged rather than tolerated.

I've enjoyed a number of meals with Muslim friends where I've enjoyed a glass of good red wine. So far I've not been beheaded for doing so.

maybe muslims are less fanatical where they are not a minority? because in the West, where their cuntcuLture is not an integral part of the local history, they are a lot more severe on sharia and its application, and demanding it be included in the Law of the Land... me, I'd cast the whole lot back to the other side of the Mediterranean, and check every one's situation case by case if they try to come back.