Universally? Not at all. You'll have to provide a little more context before I could answer that question. Some people, in some positions, would put their employment as risk for touting the The Bell Curve as unassailable fact - especially someone who dealt with members of the minority groups it either disparages or champions. :-|

 

Eh, I guess its a matter of interpretation.... We can spend a million years arguing and discussing how we interpretate different things like bigotry... but it will be to no avail.....

Leave us italians out of this btw

 

What's the matter - don't like being the target of bigotry? :lol: I'm not sure I could have made my point any clearer than you just did, thanks!

Why give up on a discussion by denying the very definition of the word, bigotry?!?? I hate to burst your ideological bubble, but one of these days you might want to try wrapping your brain around thoughts that aren't pre-processed for your consumption.

 

What you call "bigotry" I call good sense. Young Moslem men are much more likely to be terrorists than elderly Christian women.

Recently I read a column by a black college professor who said that when he travels on the train white people do not sit next to him. This is because they are afraid he is a criminal.

 

One of these days you should try to think beyond the constraints of political correctness. Different population groups differ in terms of average ability levels, personality, and character. Stereotypes are overgeneralizations, but they are overgeneralizations of what is usually true. Even people who hate Jews do not think Jews are stupid.

 

In both cases your apprehensions would be justified.

 

No, what I was saying is you and I have different views on bigotry... besides Juan never said he was scared or disliked muslims, he said he would be nervous, and rightly so. As well as I am most assured the majority of americans on this matter....

edit: also one more think to point out, juan was a supporter of the ground zero mosque construction... If he was truely a bigot than he would not have such alignments...

 

It is no surprise to me that you have trained yourself to rationalize these beliefs, despite their moral implications or ethical illogic. The fallacies you embrace to shore up your silliness are almost as much fun as Danny's beat down of the English language.

I challenge you to finish the syllogism you began with the highlighted portion of your remark and see if you can complete it without sounding like a deluded and prejudiced loon . . . :-| go on, I'll wait.

 

You're trying to paint me as a member of the politically correct brigade?!??

:lol:

Now, that is a funny, funny tangent to move to . . . please elaborate.

 

Are you referring to Arabian/Asian looking moslems or all moslems even the white and black ones, and just by looking how can you tell that the elderly woman is a christian. What you are doing is racial stereotyping, yes so at the moment most terrorists are moslim but that does not mean all moslims are terrorists.

Now I do get the feeling that you are going through your bookmarks and getting ready to cut 'n' paste your favourite clips from your favourite book.

 

It seems as if NPR has continually waived the contractual obligations of the said contract, they stated that they will not tolerate Juan making the statements that he has made for several months,,36 hours after this statement and not his opinion, was made he is fired, coincidentally just after a major contribution was made to NPR.

 

Young Moslem men are much more likely to be terrorists than elderly Christian women, so they should be scrutinized.

How are legitimate apprehensions delusional? Whites avoid black neighborhoods, especially after dark, because they really are dangerous. Even white liberals rarely send their children to predominately black public schools.

 

This is what I mean by semantic games. You either accept the well-established definition of the words you use, and proceed to make argument based on those - or you can make up your own definitions if it suits you, but I'd appreciate knowing what this new definition is. Having "different views" on what it means to be a bigot is a rhetorical dodge - and old and tired one - but if that's how you want to play it, who am I to stop you?

 

And here I was lead to believe that liberals are so open minded.

 

I'm guessing it was a contribution from the almighty rich and powerful Mr.Soros?

 

WAS IT?

 

You're in the same boat as Danny in this argument that just because lots of people do it, makes it not what it is, somehow You think I'm going to claim that white liberals are not capable, even routinely so, of bigotry?

The world of fear you've built up for yourself, obviously due to the life experiences you've had with the groups you pigeonhole, must be absolutely miserable. :-| By the way, D- on the syllogism - it remains incomplete and logically unsound.

 

"Jewish Genius," by Charles Murray

Commentary April 2007


Insofar as I am suggesting that the Jews may have had some degree of unusual verbal skills going back to the time of Moses, I am naked before the evolutionary psychologists’ ultimate challenge. Why should one particular tribe at the time of Moses, living in the same environment as other nomadic and agricultural peoples of the Middle East, have already evolved elevated intelligence when the others did not?

At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God’s chosen people.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/jewish-genius-10855 ​

 

Yea George Soros as well as some of our tax money, believe or not some of our tax money goes to NPR.

which is easilly understandible, since they are as far from popular as you can get without hitting pelosi/bush territory.

 

White liberals who do not send their children to predominately black public schools do so for good reasons. The schools are dangerous places where little learning happens. This is even true if the schools are well funded. Washington, DC has the most expensive public school system in the country. Test scores are lower than for any state. 85 percent of the school body is black.

Either you are are a Negro, and you feel defensive, or you come in contact with very few blacks. I see them up close every day, and I know what they are like.