(March 24, 2016 at 11:12 pm)scoobysnack Wrote:

(March 24, 2016 at 4:23 am)Jenny A Wrote: To be xenophobic is to be afraid of foreigners or foriegn ideas. What Kusa said is take your foriegn  ideas off to the foriegn countries they came from.

What's really wrong about that? Don't you understand the idea of common culture or how culture formed? If that's the case, why are you afraid of sharia law? Why are you against stoning women for adultury, or forced female mutilation where the clitoris is cut off, or throwing gay people off buildings? Why are you afraid of that? Are you not also xenophobic, or do you actually want that? Do you want to wear a burka? Do you want to walk around and not be forced to act in a way that others desire you? Well, I imagine you don't want any of that, but I'll let you respond.

What's really wrong is the attitude that we can't question or suggest improvements to our culture without a knee jerk well leave then response. Your hyperbole about burkas is emblematic. Sterban suggested looking at the better aspects (better in his view) of policing and governance elsewhere in the western world not wholesale replacement of US. culture. Burkas? A more parliamentary system would lead to burkas? I don't want a parliamentary system here. I can discuss it without suggesting the proponents move out of the country, or suggesting burkas are the natural result. If you think a more parliamentary system leads to burkas you are pretty xenophobic too.

Talk about a disturbing line of questioning.....now I can;t speak for anyone else, but;

Quote:why are you afraid of sharia law? 

I'm not, but if I were it could -only- be because they were foreign laws.

Quote:Why are you against stoning women for adultury, 

Yeah, here again I see nothing wrong, nothing at all.... other than that it's foreign.......ofc.

Quote:or forced female mutilation where the clitoris is cut off, 

If only a good ole boy from dixie had come up with that one, you know?

Quote:or throwing gay people off buildings? 

Now wait a minute...we're not doing that anymore, there goes my friday night.

Quote:Why are you afraid of that?  Are you not also xenophobic, or do you actually want that?

You're totally right, I can't fault any of those things except for their foreign nature.  I must, just must, want them or be xenophobic.  There are no other options, no other explanation.  

(March 24, 2016 at 7:18 am)KUSA Wrote: Perhaps you should explain your personal theory of evolution. Is it something you made up?

You realize "evolution" has a non-biological denotation as well, right?

You really should take some Midol, your period this month seems really bad.

@Scoob

They desperately need to be rid of Trump.  I sympathize, it would be a shame if the party of Lincoln had a picture of the Donald on it's headstone.

(March 25, 2016 at 1:11 am)scoobysnack Wrote: There are so many stories of people that are so involved they are brainwashed to go along with it. Usually they are involved in state jobs, and believe in the system.

You seem to think I wrote that no one was brainwashed. I wrote no such thing. That renders this section of your reply irrelevant.

(March 25, 2016 at 1:11 am)scoobysnack Wrote: You must be forgetting about all the people that were pushing the system on the poor that were against it, and ended up in the camps. Remember a common theme of those that don't agree is a camp.

You're rather undermining your own argument here, given the large numbers of people who were sent to camps.

(March 25, 2016 at 1:11 am)scoobysnack Wrote: All communist countries to this day has slave labor, and reeducation camps through labor.

"Reeducation through labor" was a cynical justification cooked up by Lenin and Trotsky in 1919 to gain access to slave labor... but if you read about the history and practices of the GULags, you'll find that "education" was not given in the camps.

(March 25, 2016 at 1:11 am)scoobysnack Wrote: I still don't know why liberals support this, unless they think they will be in leadership positions enforcing the camps, and get off on it.

I don't know why you're directing this point at me, given that I'm not a liberal (in the modern sense of the word), nor do I support imprisonment for crimes of conscience.

The only point I was making is that many, if not most, citizens in most Communist countries aren't brainwashed (I do not include North Korea because I don't know enough about what's going on there).

Why that bothers you so much that you start tossing around irrelevancies is an interesting question.