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Originally Posted by filtherton
Bullshit. Everytime I've responded directly to points made in IBD editorials you've ignored my responses.
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What about your response to this one? What did I ignore?
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Bullshit. You insinuate that Soros has malicious intentions, but then you try to cover your ass with the caveat that you don't know. It's a weaselly way of doing things. If you were so sure in your lack of confidence about Soros' true intentions you wouldn't be so quick to cast aspersions.
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How about it being a factual statement. I don't know what his intent is, this is true. I don't, nor did I, hide from my point of view on Sorros - I don't trust him, I would never trust him and I think he does things for his own personal gain. I equated him to inner-city drug dealers and gang thugs - that is my view. What was not clear about that? Is it that I separate my personal views and biases from facts, is that what causes a problem?
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I find NPR's explanation plausible. I don't think it was the result of a vast liberal conspiracy. Replace what Williams said about muslims with any other minority group and the calls for his firing would be more prevalent.
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The facts are not on your side. I am not going to do a search of the things said by NPR journalist worse than what Williams said that did not result in a termination - you can do your own homework.
I laid-out a pattern of liberals over-reacting to "Fox News" and doing things in an irrational manner - when does a series of similar events become a pattern? If you and others don't see it now, it will occur some more - I correctly defined the issue, you just don't see it yet. If I was Obama, or a liberal I would stop and reflect on why there is a fear of Fox News. My answer would be to face them head on, go toe to toe with them, fight, do what Williams was doing, not run and hide, not cry like a toddler about how mean and bad Fox News is.
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For instance "I'm no bigot, but when I see a young black man walking down the street towards me, I get nervous."
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The best answer to that would be to talk about it, confront the fear - you will find that what identifies a person as a threat has nothing to do with skin color. But, given our history and crime statistic and how they are reported I can understand how people can have that fear. The answer is not to ridicule you, not to attempt to silence you, so why do you support NPR's action? I don't get it.
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"I'm no bigot, but when I see a person with an NRA sticker on their car, I get nervous."
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Many NRA members are in the "closet" and are not open about their NRA'ness because of the above kind of fears. You may be surprised by the number of NRA members you interact with everyday.
{Added} I did a Google search out of curiosity. There are about 4 million NRA members and about 8 million homosexual people in the US.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace, what the fuck is "muslim garb"?
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The fear Williams expressed is irrational. I can not defend his point of view, but I will not ridicule it. Why, do you?