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I see what you mean about the German guy now. I recall reading about that. It is very weird. Also, from reading your post of the article, it sounds like they have some issues with how to proceed based on German law, odd stuff. I guess the difference in consent for me is when people are consenting to do something that kills or maims another human being, regardless of consent it is harmful to society and threatens the safety of others. Consenting about speach does not kill or maim someone. It is not an action in that regard. On the canibalism thing, you will likely consider a person willing to be killed and eaten as mentally unstable. The predator is taking advantage of someone who is not mentally stable. Also, in that specific case, the consumed one is dead. How do we know he really consented. Was he lured into the predators zone of control and killed against his will? And the predators defense is "he consented". I'm sure doctors and such can provide much better information on why outlawing behavior that kills and maims human beings supports a civil society. Of course it was not long ago that homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Maybe we will see Ray Bradbury's voluntary suicide to help the planet, come to fruition in our lifetime. |
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Actually I found the entire post very interesting. I just didn't want to get into the other issues. I think our difference is only a matter of degree. Certainly she should be counselled by her boss at the very least about not saying stupid things or things that might offend people. All else aside, you know the network doesn't want to offend ANYONE, so as an employee she needs to understand that. I just see an overreaction mainly by the Al Sharpton types. |
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LOL - check out Golfweek magazine's choice of a cover photo:
http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3201070 This is in MUCH poorer taste, IMO, than the underlying comment. So everyone in this thread who wanted to make such a huge deal out of her unfortunate choice of words, now we have a lynching noose on the cover of a mainstream magazine - I hope you're happy. Last edited by molson : 01-17-2008 at 12:48 PM. |
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White people also lynched asian people, and other white people. Theres nothing intrinsically racist about "lynched" Anyone else think Al Sharpton does much more to promote racism than he does to prevent it? |
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Actually, I think we're pretty close to being in agreement then. I don't really get worked up by the Sharpton boys though. They do have a right to have their say, have it considered by the voting ( in this case with $$ ) public and let the community decide what the appropriate reaction should be. If enough people in a community are willing to take their business elsewhere then what use is it to call them overreactors? It's their community. Just chalk it up to a place you wouldn't like to live. I know of lots of places like that for me. Nothing wrong with them but not my cup of tea.
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Where were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson during the Duke LaCrosse incident?
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So, since tuna boats catch the occasional dolphin or other fish, there's nothing intrinsically "tuna" related to their fishing? It's just one funky big random thing that the vast, vast majority of the fish they catch are tuna then?? I like that argument though. I'm gonna rob a bank but pick up a quarter on the street so I'll just say, 'hey, I picked up this quarter on the street so there's nothing intrinsically illegal with picking up money in your bank.' Hey, since breast cancer also happens to the occasional male there's nothing intrinsically female to this disease either. Shit, by your logic as long as we throw in some tokens we can be as racist as we want and it'll all be good.
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to end this once and for all, Hitler gassed Romanian Gypsies, Catholics and gays as well as Jews then there is no racism against the Jews in the holocaust. I hereby Godwinned the thread.
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I think you are making the OP's point for him in a roundabout way...as the operative word in the analogy is "fishing"...not tuna. So when one speaks of "fishing"(or "lynching", i.e. an action), it does not lead everybody to necessarily associate tuna or dolphin(or "white or black person", i.e. a target of the action) as both can and have been "fished" (or "lynched"), regardless of which has been "fished"(or "lynched") more. What you've termed as a "tuna boat" is more analagous to a "racist white person"...just as a "boat" is more analagous to a "person" or even "white person". Quote:
Again...the analogy fails since "robbing" is an illegal activity. "picking up" & "robbing" are 2 different terms...just as "lynching" & "murdering" are 2 different terms. One can murder by lynching somebody...and one can rob by picking up money from a place which does not belong to them...but they are not the same thing. I'm not trying to nitpick you (albeit I have a bit)...but pretending that everybody in the world should understand and automatically know every word that every other person in the world might find offensive is...well, unrealistic. We have all lived in different circumstances, cultures, ethnicities, & social status...and not everybody understands every implication of every term they have heard...especially when the term has no inherit meaning to race. By that standard or expectation...we have a lot of dictionaries to rewrite. |
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I don't mind the nitpick. I post from work and during calls so I'm sure a lot of what I type needs nitpicking. I think you are over stepping the analogy though since Lynching is not to crime prevention as fishing is to bringing edible food from the ocean. But lets say it is. Compare the professed purpose of the holocaust which is to wipe out the Jewish race that also killed non Jews and try and say that the holocaust wasn't a jewish issue. It all fails right there in Synovia's post since he clearly stated it's not a black issue since non blacks were lynched too. It's a pretty direct analogy to me.
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Axxon, your analogies make no sense. Should I be offended every time someone uses the word Martyr, because Christians were thrown to the lions, even when they use the word correctly? Should I be offended every time someone uses the word "kill" because my Irish ancestors were persecuted and killed by the french and english colonists when they first moved to the US? The word was used in the correct context. It has no intrinsic race associated. White people have been lynched. Asian people have been lynched. Yes, black people have been lynched, but theres nothing intrinsically 'black' about lynching someone. The only reason Tiger/etc should be offended is if shes insinuating that hes a horse thief. |
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Again, you're making my point. You can have a lynching without black people being involved. You can't have the Holocaust (with a capital H) without the Jews being involved. Theyre completely seperate things. A closer thing would be to say that people being held against their will during a war is an intrinsically jewish thing (which its not, its been done in every war since time started) |
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Yes you can (any capitalization is irrelevant... we are talking about the general term here of both lynching and holocaust). Holocaust is simply a Greek word meaning completely burnt. Any mass genocide can be called a holocaust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Holocaust Quote:
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ISiddiqui, thats why I said "with a capital H". Holocaust with a capital H refers to that specific event.
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http://sports.myway.com/news/01182008/v6257.html Golfweek magazine replaced the editor responsible for illustrating the current cover with a noose and apologized Friday for its depiction of a Golf Channel anchor's use of "lynch" in a comment about Tiger Woods. "We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," Turnstile Publishing Co. president William P. Kupper Jr. said. "We were trying to convey the controversial issues with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic. ... Turnstile is the parent company of Golfweek. The company said Dave Seanor, the vice president and editor of Golfweek, has been replaced immediately by Jeff Babineau. A copy of the Jan. 19 cover was removed from the magazine's Web site Friday morning. Seanor said in an interview Thursday night that he took responsibility for the cover, which showed a noose against a purple sky and the title, "Caught in a Noose." The subtitle said, "Tilghman slips up, and Golf Channel can't wriggle free." The magazine devoted four pages of news and commentary on the topic, including a column on the back page supporting Tilghman and asking that the controversy be kept in context. In an editorial, the magazine explained why it felt the Tilghman story deserved so much attention. It was accompanied by a cartoon that showed the Rev. Al Sharpton, who demanded Tilghman be fired, holding a noose and offering it to a pair of Golf Channel employees staring in a hole of thin ice, presumably where Tilghman had sunk. Reaction to the noose drew a harsh rebuke from PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem. "Clearly, what Kelly said was inappropriate and unfortunate, and she obviously regrets her choice of words," Finchem said in a statement. "But we consider Golfweek's imagery of a swinging noose on its cover to be outrageous and irresponsible. It smacks of tabloid journalism. It was a naked attempt to inflame and keep alive an incident that was heading to an appropriate conclusion." It was not clear if Seanor had been fired. Babineau, 45, has been with Golfweek for nine years, including roles as editor, deputy editor and senior writer. "We know we have a job ahead of us to re-earn the trust and confidence of many loyal readers," Babineau said. "Our staff is very passionate about the game. Our wish is that one regretful error does not erase more than 30 years of service we've dedicated to this industry."
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It always comes back to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They both need to get lost and let things be. I have never in my life seen 2 people stir up things more often than these two morons. The woman's comments were out of line, yes; however I do not believe she meant anything by them and this has completely gotten out of hand. The cover of the golf magazine was meant to grab headlines, but it was in poor taste.
I wish as a society we could just get over all this crap and stand together against common problems like hunger, child porn, terrorism, and poverty. Instead, we continue to bicker over stuff and promote the very problems that we are seeking to resolve. Everytime people like Sharpton and Jackson speak, the fires of racism are stoked anew. It is all too bad.
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Another Golf racist hate crime?
GolfWeek magazine editor fired over this cover. It is getting harder and harder to enjoy sports now days. Maybe Star Trek was right; In the future there will be no sports or athletes.
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I agree. I generally consider myself to be pretty color neutral. I generally don't give a crap what color you are.... But Sharpton, and the way the majority of black journalists seem to repeat his oppinions/muck-stirring really makes me dislike most black journalists. If Al Sharpton is so easily offended, maybe he should stop watching TV/reading magazines. |
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We don't get lynched. We know kung fu, and people always go ninja one-on-one style against Asians, allowing us to take them one-by-one.
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Very true. Sharpton and Jackson have an agenda, and it is called "bring as much attention to myself as possible no matter who gets hurt." Yes, there are racist people out there. Nothing any of us ever do will change that. But drawing attention to every little thing that happens and fueling the "PC Police" is not the way to go about ending racism. People say things every day that are dumb. Hell, I say at least 3 things every day that are just stupid. Not racist things, but stupid things nonetheless. The girl apologized, the magazine apologized, why can't they just drop it? The really sad thing is that when a black person says things about whites or even other blacks, nothing is made of it. As I stated in an earlier post, where were Sharpton and Jackson when the Duke LaCrosse players were under attack for what now was obviously a bunch of lies by a black stripper? They were nowhere to be found. I am just tired of it all. We are all equal in regards to the color of our skin. It is what is inside that makes us each different.
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OK, if it'll make things better in this country, I'll go lynch Tiger Woods and see what happens.
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In that case, I'll be back in like 25 minutes!!!
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To be affair, Sharpton did attack Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder for having Martin Luther King utter the N word in an episode.
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This might be hard to believe, but I don't really have a lot of practice with lynching people... you know, with me being black and all.
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See what I mean?? This always comes back to race. Are you Al Sharpton????
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IIRC, Sharpton also slams rappers for using the n word and advocating violence in their lyrics. So he does go after black people plenty of times as well.
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I find it interesting that the magazine cover depicts the virtual "lynching" that the announcer got for her comment, yet that still somehow got turned into a racist picture. Apparently you can't even use the word as you are being lynched. |
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(me neither other than the crass commercialization of trying to cash in on hype, kindof like advertising for Christmas stuff in October) SI
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I'm not personally offended (I fortunately wasn't born with a sense of offensiveness). BUT, it's just funny that it's apparently offensive to say a word with no racial intent whatsoever, and then a magazine thinks it's OK to display a image SOLELY for it's racial shock value. |
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