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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
First and foremost, I never accused all conservative groups of harbouring such an attitude. The word prejudice was something you introduced and then accused me (by implication) of such a foible.
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The title you selected for this thread belies your argument. You indeed lumped all conservatives with your nifty little "next" and "hit list" quip. I will once again point out that this is the very definition of prejudice. And this thread explemifies it. This isn't an accusation...it's a fact. Don't jump to an offended position. Prejudice is NOT always a bad thing. In this instance it made for a literary device used to spur discussion in an intersting thread.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Secondly, everyone (or almost everyone) agrees that it is the conservative groups (or fringe groups if you prefer) that are the ones that promote prejudice.
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This is patently rediculous. Worthy of no more discussion then that. Even your disclaimer of "almost everyone" is so far fetched, I am embarrassed that you resorted this sort of childish, unsubstantiatable nonsense.
Is this for real?
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I won't bore you with the details of "web only" content, taken from and credited directly to the BBC wires, or the fact that your other two sources are also web only, and taken from and credited to the NYT. This is not significant press. I suspect you could indeed go on. Google is our friend
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Fourthly, you state that these groups (actually you mentioned it as only one group, but no matter) were the "whacko fringe".
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AAAh, a press release worthy tome and a ham radio and these wacko's are main stream?
Your just arguing for arguments sake aren't you?
Thanks for the boring, self congratulatory, pat on the back, "about us" link posted by this groups founder. I'm afraid they are still fringe. Wacko is probably too strong a description as I know nothing about them, have never heard of them before, and will likely never hear of them again. That's how I define fringe. Have you ever heard of them before?
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groups is mentioned is in the various articles...yet only one group is actually identified. Althugh assurance of "AT LEAST TWO" christian conservative american groups claim is presented...blah blah blah.
This might hit the papers tomorrow and might even hit some mainstream media outlets. But it'll die, since it's from a fringe WACKO group, and has no legs.
-bear
PS: I am very happy for Mr Squarepants. I have myself been attracted to Patrick in his multi limbed, spinelessly flexible sort of way...GRRRRRRoooowwwwllllllllll
