tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post3643936866728463413..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: While I was away ...Rick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-68339915863933805932008-05-15T08:22:00.000-05:002008-05-15T08:22:00.000-05:00I have to agree with John here. If you are willin...I have to agree with John here. If you are willing to protect some, but not all immutable characteristics, you have already lost the neutrality you were trying to create. <BR/><BR/>Look at Obama's 'angry white male' speech. When the protected attacks the unprotected it becomes especially offensive and self-fulfilled itself. I became an angry white male when I heard it. The biggest reason for my anger was because it wasn't even meant as an attack. It is just what liberal elite has come to believe as fact. <BR/>White males are either liberal thinkers or racist gun toting religious fanatics. (All the while showing respect for non-white gun toting religious fanatics who would be perfectly willing to use the guns on them in the Middle East.) But fearing a minority walking quickly up behind me with a bulge in his pocket is racial profiling and offensive.<BR/>3 ideas there:<BR/>Non-liberal white males are gun-toting religious fanatics.<BR/>Non-white gun toting religious fanatics proud of their willingness to kill others for their faith or lack of faith.<BR/>Gun toting minority youth perfectly willing to kill rival gangs or most anyone for enough bucks.<BR/>To liberal thought, one of these statements is just the way it is and 2 are offensive... sickening.<BR/>TuerqasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-66676238005553547752008-05-14T15:20:00.000-05:002008-05-14T15:20:00.000-05:00I respect your opinion, but how would you respond ...I respect your opinion, but how would you respond if American had sponsored a Klan rally?<BR/><BR/>The notion that people should be protected for "immutable characteristics" but not for "opinions," (although I know you didn't endorse it in full) is terribly convenient for the politically correct.<BR/><BR/>In the first place, are males and whites protected?<BR/><BR/>Of course you know they aren't.<BR/><BR/>But religion is part of "who I am," just as much as being a white male.<BR/><BR/>Further, while people can change their opinions, being demeaned and berated is either not an effective way of getting them to change, or when it is effective, not a moral way to do so.<BR/><BR/>And I'm sure you understand that nobody is wanting government to censor Maher, nor is anybody suggesting disrupting his talk.<BR/><BR/>And I'm sure you recognize that anybody has a right to stop buying at any store they want.John McAdamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04843727752066511266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-12120578219639831632008-05-14T07:37:00.000-05:002008-05-14T07:37:00.000-05:00Arthiest are a bunch of hypocrits. They fervantly ...Arthiest are a bunch of hypocrits. They fervantly attack anything they don't believe in while at the same time attempting to monopolize what people think about free speech and human origin. I don't know if it's because they are power hungry, mean spirited or insecure. <BR/><BR/>I chose to be a Christian, although I was taught all the mumbo jumbo of evolution and secular humanism in school. It doesn't bother me when someone attacks my faith, but what gets me is that the attackers never want equal footing because their beliefs really don't stand up when fairly discussed or compared. <BR/><BR/>I also wouldn't spend a dime to see the show, but I guess in a way we can thank American for the sponsorship so we can refresh our feelings about the folly of liberal thought or, lack thereof.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com