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I was perusing the net this morning when I found an open thread at Ace’s place that linked to this series of vintage ads.
It is pretty clear that none of those ads would pass muster in the west today, but looking that them a 2nd time. It would seem to me that most of them would pass muster in the Islamic world.
So my question is this: Look at the vintage ads in the link and tell me how many would be unacceptable in the Middle east?
In fact let’s have a poll
I think it’s an interesting question
This post is not going to make me any friends. I wasn’t going to blog on this subject but I read the first paragraph of this nonsense and I’m not going to let it stand:
What made Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi jump off of a bridge to his death?
With all due respect to his grieving family nothing made Tyler Clementi jump off a bridge but Tyler Clementi.
He was a talented young man going to a prestigious university in the greatest country in the world. Worldwide he was easily part of the 1% of winners in life’s lottery.
Yet with all his advantages when someone played a nasty prank on him he was so insecure that all despite he had going for him he decided to throw it away because he was embarrassed? Are you kidding me?
The world is a rough place and an unfair place. Tyler Clementi, wasn’t beaten like some who fall in the hands of the Taliban, He wasn’t starved like some children in Africa, he wasn’t a victim of the slave trade, subject to discrimination or stricken with an incurable disease. Like many young men his age he didn’t go to war and face the risks and horror of it and didn’t have to flee a country controlled by drug wars to come to America. He had no reason to fear for his life.
Yet one embarrassment was enough for him to throw it all away and you expect me to feel sorry for him and beat my breast? Give me a break!
It stinks that this man killed himself, he threw away a gift given to him by God. As the father of a young man in college the same age I can certainly relate to his parent’s pain but the idea that right now advocacy groups and pols are about to use a weak guy’s stupid decision to fund raise, appear holier than thou and advance their causes disgusts me.
They are using this man worse than the fools who filmed him did. Those people were college kids, what is the excuse of those advocacy groups full of adults?
It’s a tough thing to say but it is what it is. The person responsible for Tyler Clementi’s death is himself.
memorandum thread here.
Update: Cripes do Robert Stacy and I have the same brain or what?
Q: What was the first thought in my mind after coming home from a couple of hours of errands and seeing the following tweet from Michelle Malkin concerning James Jay Lee.
Not knowing who he is what would be your first thought?
Again that was before I knew anything about what was going on just seeing the tweet. I think that is the strongest critique of liberal academia today that I can think of.
Honestly if you knew nothing about that man other than the information from that tweet wouldn’t your first thought be NGO or Tenured Professor?
Go over and read it here:
After the inauguration my office was all atwitter about the new BLACK president we had. Praising every inch of him as if he lost a digit of a finger it’d have been worshipped as a holy relic. I wanted to scream “HE’S A SOCIALIST! And what do you really KNOW about him anyway? He is NOT all that! Michelle is NOT pretty! He will RUIN us!” But I put on my iPod, and kept silent.
This post could be a description of conservatives in Massachusetts until the Scott Brown election, people knew that to speak out meant that you were not “one of us”. Republicans, conservatives etc were lesser beings.
One of the most liberating moments for myself was on Election day 2008. I had a McCain/Palin sign that I picked up at a NH rally and went down to the polling place, after voting I stood there. holding that sign. There were gaps of disbelief, there was at least one, “You’ve gotta be kidding”…
…but there were quite a few thumbs up and at least one person who joined me and took my place for a while so I could take a break.
The power of knowing that you were not alone, the knowledge that is was OK to oppose this president, the willingness to say it when everyone else said no can make all the difference. Things changed in a hurry in Massachusetts once that fear was gone.
There are costs but freedoms always cost something.
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