Ground Zero Mosque - Tolerance, Racism or Comedy?

I think where it falls flat is that there are already gay bars, lingerie stores, people selling pork, et cetera, in the general vicinity of practically every American mosque. And you never, ever, ever, hear any American Muslims complaining about it.They are being "tolerant". They're being so tolerant that you never notice them being tolerant and nor do they.Meanwhile, a real non-imaginary bunch of actual loonies are actually getting all worked up about the non-mosque which is not in any way being built on Ground Zero.When you see any American Muslims raising a similar howl about someone selling ribs, let me know.

That would be intolerance of jerks. The fact that Palin and many of the protesters are white and Christian has nothing to do with it. You might s well complain that liberals are intolerant of women called Sarah and people with placards. No, just jerks. Some of whom are called Sarah and/or have placards.

Thank you for your petulant and inaccurate generalizations. The amusing impudence of your hypocrisy has brightened my day.Here's a thought for you: You, by that token, appear to be standing in what can be best described as a moral pit. And you're digging. How very fortunate for you. And for anyone with a sense of humor who happens to encounter you.

Either that or you can't read minds; and the amusement you cause amongst others is neither something that they find hard to stand nor caused by an appreciation of their own errors. Being a pompous hypocrite, on the other hand, has a certain comedy value. If by this cryptic phrase you mean that you're a hypocrite, I think we've noticed.

I hardly see how that can be so --- unless, of course, you are a diverse group of people with heterogeneous views, in which case I apologize to them unreservedly for the unjust and offensive imputation that they all think like you. Or, back in the real world, you must have really amused me to elicit this amount of humorous derision. It is indeed me "personally" mocking your hypocrisy. Such tasks, I feel, are not best handled by a committee. Were one formed, I should decline to be a member.How this leads you to believe that this unnamed "it" must be true is beyond my powers of conjecture. I can read your posts --- you alone have the doubtful pleasure of reading your mind.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

But that is the line. We're not discussing when people should be silenced or jailed for tasteless and unsuccessful attempts at humor, no-one has advocated that. We're discussing when people should be considered dicks.

But don't you see that we are obliged to make certain assumptions?If you hold your hand out as if to be shaken, then I will assume that you want me to shake your hand.I might be wrong. You might really want me to club you unconscious and drag you off to my Underground Lair, where you will awake to find that I have attached electrodes to your genitals ...It is perfectly plausible that that is what you really want, and yet I am obliged to behave as though what you actually want is for me to shake your hand.i am obliged to treat you as though you were psychologically average. Anyone having weird abnormal desires has to ask.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.