Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
Author: The Odd Duck
Date: 11-11-2016 - 14:02
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >To associate contemporary Democrats with the KKK
> based on what Woodrow Wilson or Robert Byrd did
> 100 years ago is really ignorant. I don't go
> around claiming that the Republican Party is
> supportive of Environmental Protection Agency,
> even though it was created by Republican Richard
> M. Nixon because I am intelligent enough to know
> that the Republican Party of 2016 is not the same
> as it was in 1969.
>
> Nor is it the same Republican Party my great-great
> grandfather helped found in 1860. Now that you
> mention it, Wilson, a Democrat from Tennessee,
> segregated the armed services. Thirty years later,
> Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, re-integrated
> them.
>
> My take on "political correctness" is that it
> tends to run counter to a basic human trait which
> I refer to as "us and them-ism", which is
> intimately related to the notions of family,
> tribe, nationality, even race, etc. and innate
> urges to protect them and further their
> development. Some in the anthropological world
> feel that without this trait, homo sapiens might
> hot have come into being at all.
>
> Like drinking booze (another human trait), the
> problem is getting carried away. The "libtards"
> etc. have gotten carried away in one direction;
> the Great Groper and his ilk have run off to the
> opposite extreme.
>
> In this day and age of nuclear, biological, and
> chemical weapons with their prospects of such
> widespread and long lasting destruction, a certain
> amount of consideration and decency toward others
> is an absolute necessity, including those who
> you've been brought up to "hate" or "despise"
> (those people can get carried away too). What
> makes the situation more complex is that "us and
> them-sim" enforces a herd mind-set: a few
> individuals, who happen to be Moslem, blow up a
> bunch of things, killing people. Herd thinking
> immediately couples this to "all Moselms are
> evil", which in stark reality is no different than
> saying "all Christians are evil".
>
> Given the great variety of human thinking and
> opinions, to me it's simply a self-initiated case
> of being polite to others (at lest until they
> start blowing up things, beating on you, etc.) and
> then going after those individuals rather than
> their socio-religious-ethnic-racial group. As for
> the two polarized nut-case extremes, I don't care
> for either one.
Don’t forget in the 70’s we had terror groups like the Weatherman. BTW it my understand the reason that Truman “re-integrated them” is he needed Cannon Fodder for the Korean War
What Happed To WhistleStop Campaigning
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Hairy True Man |
11-10-2016 - 19:33 |
So With Regard to Whistlestopping
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Hairy True Man |
11-10-2016 - 19:35 |
BS alert this thread
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Don't Care Any More |
11-10-2016 - 19:39 |
Re: BS alert this thread
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Derp alert |
11-10-2016 - 20:00 |
Don't blame me, I voted for Jim Speaker
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:^D |
11-10-2016 - 20:37 |
Media Incites All the Protest--Trump's First Post-Election Tweet!!!
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NeverTrump |
11-10-2016 - 20:41 |
What's Going to Happen Next?
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Joker |
11-10-2016 - 21:35 |
What Railroad Runs Through Pelham, NC?
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DavidD |
11-10-2016 - 22:05 |
Re: What Railroad Runs Through Pelham, NC?
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Nussel Snouts |
11-10-2016 - 22:21 |
This is not a partisan issue, Nussel, it's about a photo op
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Good Point |
11-10-2016 - 22:41 |
Re: This is not a partisan issue, Nussel, it's about a photo op
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Nussel Snouts |
11-10-2016 - 22:50 |
Re: This is not a partisan issue, Nussel, it's about a photo op
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Good Point |
11-10-2016 - 23:49 |
Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Railfan & Political Junkie |
11-11-2016 - 07:01 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Nussel Snouts |
11-11-2016 - 10:17 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Nussel Snouts |
11-11-2016 - 10:47 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Dr Zarkoff |
11-11-2016 - 11:55 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself |
The Odd Duck |
11-11-2016 - 14:02 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Splitting Hairs |
11-11-2016 - 21:51 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Nussel Snouts |
11-12-2016 - 05:58 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Railfan & Political Junkie |
11-12-2016 - 07:32 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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The Odd Duck |
11-11-2016 - 13:51 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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Railfan & Political Junkie |
11-12-2016 - 07:28 |
Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
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The Odd Duck |
11-12-2016 - 13:00 |
Re: Media Incites All the Protest--Trump's First Post-Election Tweet!!!
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Boberama |
11-12-2016 - 08:56 |
Boberama A Distinction with a Difference
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NeverTrump |
11-12-2016 - 13:56 |
Re: BS alert this thread
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The Original Deno |
11-10-2016 - 22:48 |
Yeah we did vote dummies!
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NeverTrump |
11-10-2016 - 23:54 |
Up to About 400,000 In Favor of Clinton--Oops!
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NeverTrump |
11-11-2016 - 15:53 |
When You Campaign On Jailing The Country's Choice For Prez, Expect Protests!
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NeverTrump |
11-11-2016 - 15:58 |
Re: When You Campaign On Jailing The Country's Choice For Prez, Expect Protests!
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Boberama |
11-11-2016 - 18:31 |
Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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KenStarr |
11-11-2016 - 19:20 |
Didn't Trumps' First Wife Say He Raped Her?
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NYPOSTER |
11-11-2016 - 19:24 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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Boberama |
11-12-2016 - 10:26 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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KEnStarr |
11-12-2016 - 12:38 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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Boberama |
11-12-2016 - 14:54 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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Boberama |
11-12-2016 - 15:09 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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NeverTrump |
11-12-2016 - 16:20 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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4everTrump |
11-12-2016 - 18:32 |
Wow Hutch 7.95's racism finally boils to the surface
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JollySeaman |
11-12-2016 - 19:32 |
Re: Wow Your momma's racism finally boils to the surface
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4everTrump |
11-13-2016 - 12:34 |
Hutch The Racism Should Stop
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NEverTrump |
11-13-2016 - 13:25 |
Re:The Racism Should Stop
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4EVerTrump |
11-13-2016 - 14:07 |
Re: Re:The Racism Should Stop
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NeverTrump |
11-13-2016 - 16:38 |
Re: Re:The Racism Should Stop
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4ErverTrump |
11-13-2016 - 20:16 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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Boberama |
11-12-2016 - 18:38 |
Re: Name One Criminal Thing She Did.
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NEver Trump |
11-12-2016 - 19:33 |
Classic Whistlestop Images
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Imago |
11-10-2016 - 20:22 |
Re: Classic Whistlestop Images
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AL |
11-10-2016 - 20:48 |
Re: Classic Whistlestop Images-Instead od Whiney Troll Crap
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BOB2 |
11-11-2016 - 10:57 |
Re: Classic Whistlestop Images-Instead od Whiney Troll Crap
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Imago |
11-11-2016 - 13:15 |
A Stop at Willoughby
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Nussel Snouts |
11-10-2016 - 21:58 |
Re: What Happed To WhistleStop Campaigning
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The Odd Duck |
11-10-2016 - 23:57 |
Election is Over Odd Duck
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NeverTrump |
11-11-2016 - 00:12 |
Re: Election is Over Odd Duck
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The Odd Duck |
11-11-2016 - 02:46 |
Re: Election is Over Odd Duck
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Dr Zarkoff |
11-11-2016 - 12:06 |
Re: Election is Over Odd Duck
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The Odd Duck |
11-11-2016 - 14:14 |
Re: Election is Over Odd Duck
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Dr Zarkoff |
11-14-2016 - 17:02 |
Re: Election is Over and Hillary is a crook
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Boberama |
11-11-2016 - 18:38 |
Re: What Happed To WhistleStop Campaigning
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The Odd Duck |
11-11-2016 - 02:37 |
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keep the politics |
11-11-2016 - 09:35 |
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OT Local |
11-12-2016 - 16:50 |
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NeverTrump |
11-12-2016 - 19:36 |
Re: What Happed To WhistleStop Campaigning
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The Odd Duck |
11-12-2016 - 21:33 |
Re: What Happed To WhistleStop Campaigning
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OldPoleBurner |
11-13-2016 - 00:28 |
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NeverTrump |
11-13-2016 - 12:21 |
ENOUGH ALREADY
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mook |
11-13-2016 - 08:10 |
Re: ENOUGH ALREADY
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NEverTrump |
11-13-2016 - 11:42 |