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Author | Topic: Fundamentalists (of all stripes) at it again (Re: Textbook Wars: Religion in History) | |||||||||||||||||||
nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Because I can turn on the radio and hear Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly, and Michael Savage spew vile hatred at everybody quote: Exactly who are you referring to, on which networks, on which shows, at what times? And do you have some quotes, some examples of what these people are saying? This message has been edited by schrafinator, 01-25-2006 07:54 PM
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I'm sorry. Perhaps I wasn't clear, or perhaps I misunderstood what you said. You made a factual claim in response to crashfrog's statement:
Because I can turn on the radio and hear Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly, and Michael Savage spew vile hatred at everybody quote: ...to which I replied:
Exactly who are you referring to, on which networks, on which shows, at what times? And do you have some quotes, some examples of what these people are saying? See, to me is seems very much as though you were saying that there were liberals on television and radio programs in equal numbers, spewing similar kinds and amounts of hateful rhetoric that Savage, O'Reilly, and Hannity do on their programs. I am not familiar with such liberal programming, especially in TV, and so I was asking you to provide some names, networks, times that they are on, and perhaps some quotes to compare to those of the right-wingers already mentioned. Because without these examples, it would seem that your claim that right-wingers and liberals do just about the same amount of hate-spewing on television and radio would be completely without any basis in fact. So, I would ask that you please support your factual assertion with evidence, as rule #4 of the forum rules requires, or withdraw the claim.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: So, academics, the most highly-educated people in our society, who have been exposed to many different ways of thinking about many subjects, tend to be liberal. We also know that people who have less or little education, and who have not been exposed to many different ways of thinking about things and who have lived in insular environments where their thinking is not challenged, tend to be conservative. Hmmmm... This message has been edited by schrafinator, 01-26-2006 08:21 AM
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: ...a direct consequence of which is our dependence upon foreign oil which has influenced many administrations to make alliances with unsavory and dictatorial regimes such as those of the Taliban, the House of Saud, and Saddam Hussein.
quote: ...and of the barbaric time in our history where women's bodies were considered not to be owned by themselves, but by the state.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Buzsaw, I certainly had my doubts about you as a moderator, but I am quite impressed.
I think you're doing a fine job in this thread.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: *sigh* Why should randman waste his time, Percy? Can't you google?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Sorry Percy. When I wrote:
Why should randman waste his time, Percy? , Can't you google? I was repeating what randman has said to me in one form or another when he and I get to the place in a given debate where I ask him to support his assertions and he doesn't think he needs to. In fact, he at that point demands that I do his research for him. I was just recognizing that this is the place that you and he have reached in your discussion and was just inserting randman's predictable next step.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I took several university-level history courses while earning my liberal arts Bachelor's, buz, and we talked about religion quite a bit. We talked about Buddhism and Hinduism in one of my favorite courses which had a very dry title, "Non-Western Civilization. I wrote a really large paper on the Great Schism in the Catholic Church for an independent study in History during my semester abroad. My husband (Zhimbo) also took a course titled "The Life and Teachings of Jesus" as part of his liberal arts education at Oberlin College. He says it was one of his very favorite classes. So, buz, I don't think you really have any idea of what you are talking about.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yeah, and the Protesants were all soft and cuddly by comparison. When they had the power, buz, they were just as bad. Remember the "witches"? Remember the lovely smallpox-infected blankets they gave to the American Indians? Remember slavery? Remember the KKK and the Christian militia and white supremacicts? Remember Timothy McVeigh? This message has been edited by schrafinator, 02-08-2006 08:40 AM
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