I'm offended, LG gave me reason to be so.
As I have and others have pointed out, no he did not. I sincerely hope a moderator can step in and put this matter to rest, because you are making wildly unfounded claims about LG, and this needs to be addressed by someone with the power to make you stop.
Yes, he dressed that turd up with some frosting, but it's still a turd, not a cupcake. I could have made exactly the same point using some other cartoon without the racist baggage, so could you have done. So could he, but he chose not to. It was offensive and a person with character would have appologized by now.
A person of character would not have taken the cartoon out of context and used it to insinuate that its poster was a racist.
Whether or not you are uncomfortable with depictions of racist propaganda is irrelevant, because LG was using that propaganda to lampoon racists. And you full well know this, but choose consciously to pretend you don't, and insinuate that LG has some nefarious agenda. As I said before, your behavior should be subject to moderation.
And none of the atheists on this thread have defined god for theists at all, though the theists have created strawmen of what atheism means.
I agree, but the accuracy of LG's argument is irrelevant to your complaint. What matters was his intent, which clearly was not racial, nor meant to offend. The only way to construe it as such is to intentionally take the cartoon out of context, which is what you have done here.
[quoe]You've run into that buzzsaw several times now, I don't speak about what I don't know. In this case I lived the effects of racism on societies.[/quote]
The only way in which that would be relevant is if you are arguing that your exposure to such violence and prejudice has made you sensitive to the point of irrationality. Is that what you're saying?
Yes, the lack of any sensitivity to the victims of predjudice and discrimination led directly to the Holocaust.
Sensitivity to these things and pushback on them is what PC is, so lack of PC allowed the Holocaust to occur. The same goes for the strange fruit sprouting from the trees throughout the South. Or as one protestant pastor put it...
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak outbecause I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
Speaking out about these things is exactly what PC is. The lack of PC(speaking out)in society is what allowed these things to happen.
This kind of reductionist piffle is precisely the kind of thing one would expect to hear from a source whose understanding of the events has all the depth of a History Channel documentary.
It's also inaccurate in its portrayal of political correctness, which is
not the combating of ignorance and prejudice, but the villainizing of speech or art or culture that might offend someone else, with no consideration for context. It is by definition a superficial practice; it is the suspension of a Golf Channel anchor for saying the only way the field was going to stop Tiger Woods was by lynching him; it is the ostracizing of Don Imus for calling a group of college basketball players "Nappy-headed hoes."
It is the outcry following Billy Crystal's portrayal of Sammy Davis Jr. at the Oscars.
I find it disturbing you don't see the racism in what he did, I do. Your track record of thinking you know what I think is rather dismal.
Grumpy
No you don't. You don't see the racism either. This is just a stunt.
