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Originally Posted by Bucco
I had to leave while typing a response to donb9006 so would just like to add this which is so frustrating tome...
If I say we need to crack down on inner city crime...eventually I will be called a racist
If I say we need to modify all the handouts in this country....eventually I will be called a racist or non sympathatic
If I say we need to work on family values...eventually I will be called an elitist, racist or old.
If I say we need to stop terrorism in the world, especially before it gets to our country....eventually I will be called afraid of Muslims
If I say I really question Al Jazeera being here...I am called afraid of muslims.
The list goes on and on.....you cannot discuss things without a label akin to what I have said being laid on you.
Why cannot we call things what they are....why cannot we discuss things without the labeling ?
Do not know if this frustrates anyone else, but it sure does me.
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I, and I'm sure many people here, share these exact frustrations.
Intelligent, logical, cogent arguments are reduced to name calling and one-word labeling, summing up worthy debate opponents and throwing lye on them with terms like "bigot", "racist", "homophobe", "xenophobe", "hater".......
....and "fool" which is clearly implied in the posts about saying everything we're learning and digesting from MANY varied sources is merely "propaganda".
Like we're all gullible fools for paying attention abroad to events in the Middle East that boil over and lead up to attacks and
massacres like we had on our own soil on 9/11/2001. But then, mockery is a powerful tool, as stated in Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" (for community organizers), Rule #5.
"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
And this one:
“Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it.”
Rules for Radicals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia