Quote:Any sane evaluation of the Middle East is up against the full force of the Pentagon, CIA,
Yeah no
Quote:CNN, MSNBC, etc. For decades now it's been hammered into the English-speaking world that Islam is evil, that without it the region would be sweetness and light. And that the turbaned terrorists are lurking under everyone's beds
. CNN and MSNBC ....CIA propaganda wings lol.......Saying Islam is evil
Quote:So it's no surprise that people parrot that. Manufacturing consent is what the US does best.Yeah again no
Quote:I also think it's why your idea of opening a Human Rights section is met with indifference. Propaganda ties human rights issues to the two main boogie-men: Islam and Communism.Communism yes . Islam no . Outside of Fox News or Breitbart this simply isn't that case
Quote: It's inconceivable to most people that the US is by far the worst opponent of human rights in our lifetimes.Not even .Yeah the US no angel. But the worst not even close .
Quote: Acknowledging that is too much cognitive dissonance for most people.Or the simple fact it isn't true .Like not at all .
Quote:So once an enemy has been named, it becomes like something out of Harry Potter world.Interesting you use a fantasy book to bring up your fantasy theory
Quote:The bad guys live in a land of permanent gloom,
The "bad guys " generally live in highly repressive dictatorships were they have little power and tend to live under a religion that views pleasure as low priority or down right sinful .
Quote: where all pleasure has been banished.
See above
Quote: Which means that us white folks, the good guys, are doing the world a favor by either liberating or eliminating them.
Yeah that's a strawman . I have never even brought up race (as muslims are a race and there are white people in the middle east). Considering middle eastern countries keep asking us to Liberate them or help them this seems off , And outside of Nazi's i have not heard any talk of elimination .
Quote: (Where "liberating" means "forcing them to adopt an American life style.")Or not live under a repressive theocracy or a dictatorship which generally people seem miserable under which is why keep revolting and then getting slaughtered by their own government.
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM