Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - Posts
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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
I'm sure that President Obama and his wife have done their best to
prepare their daughters for the idea that there are crazy people out
there whose hatred for their father extends to them (although it's not
a job I envy). But it's difficult to prepare for this, posted on the
website (a site so offensive that I didn't link to it) of the Westboro
"Baptist" Church, which has organized an anti-gay protest outside of
Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend: "Quakers?! Are you
frigging kidding me? You pretend to be all non-violent, and you allow
the most bloody, deceitful, evil, murderous bastard and his shemale
sidekick to place their satanic spawn within your four walls" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal
today has a bracing piece about the almost surreal disconnection
between what’s increasingly clear about the Ft. Hood killer, Maj. Nidal
Hasan, and what officials and some commentators seem unable to
acknowledge. As she writes: “It was an act of terrorism by a man with a
record of expressing virulent, anti-American, pro-jihadist sentiments.
All were conspicuous signs of danger his Army superiors chose to
ignore.” She quotes Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr. as
saying, “"This terrible event would be an even greater tragedy if our
diversity becomes a casualty." As Mona Charen
points out, the idea of a witch hunt is false and dangerous. Surely the
general doesn't mean that in our quest for diversity in the military,
we embrace fanatics in our midst. Rooting them out has to be to the
benefit of the brave, patriot Muslims who serve. Ralph Peters
makes the larger point that, “By protecting the fanatics, we betray the
peaceful majority of our Muslim citizens, leaving them afraid to speak
out, since the feds shield the fanatics in charge of their mosques and
communities” ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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Nobody cops to “political correctness” anymore; policing language is
what the other guy does. The rest of us are just, you know, telling it
like it is. But playing PC-policeman officer is a
relatively peaceful and noninvasive way to nudge the culture in a
particular direction, a form of persuasion in a democracy built on
consensus. And according to the authors of a little study in the November issue of the Journal Sex Roles, switching from one form of speaking to another might shift your inner liberal just as quickly.
The study authors wanted to see whether languages that assign genderto nouns, like Spanish and French, might implicitly encourage “opposition or hostility to extending equal opportunity to women, especially in terms of work-related issues” ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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