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Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 7:29 pm
Henriette Reker won the mayoral elections at Cologne in a landslide. That's the good news for her. The bad news are that she's in an induced coma, having been stabbed yesterday by some bigot being against her immigration policy. Good job for the fear and hate mongers. Their idiot foot soldiers will do the dirty work for them.
Quote:Henriette Reker, an independent close to Merkel’s ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), suffered serious wounds to the neck in the attack in the western city of Cologne, which is to elect its mayor on Sunday, on Saturday morning.
Police arrested the attacker at the scene, with regional police chief Wolfgang Albers describing it as a political act linked to the fact that Reker was “responsible for taking charge of refugees” in the city, the fourth largest in Germany.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oc...te-stabbed
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 7:32 pm
How sad. This kind of thing seriously needs to change.
I hope for the future and I hope humanity overall takes measures to improve the well being of world society overall. I hope the progress morality has made throughout history continues. I hope bigotry continues to decide. I hope this happens exponentially quicker. And I hope that all setbacks are striven to be avoided.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 8:07 pm
Assassinations, sigh. Last act of a true looser(s). I hope the country steps up to punish more than just the perp.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 9:07 pm
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(October 18, 2015 at 8:07 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Assassinations, sigh. Last act of a true looser(s). I hope the country steps up to punish more than just the perp.
Hm, difficult. Who should be punished for what without completely undermining freedom of speech? The public can punish the movement by widthdrawing support. The whole pegida thing might now become even more of a looney fringe movement and lose the last bit of support in the ordinary population. The guys who ran around with the mock gallow display might get into more trouble because of it, but they are already being investigated, and the investigators threatened, and that investigated, before the attack.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 10:01 pm
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As a dumb American I once had three mental stereotypes for the Germans:
1. Clean business - they don't cheat on emission tests.
2. Civil politics - they don't assassinate politicians who disagree with them.
3. Dirndls, Lederhosen, Kraftwerk and Rammstein
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 10:10 pm
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Well, one out of three isn't all that bad, right?! Can I interest you in some yodeling?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 10:53 pm
Europeans being bigoted? I don't believe it.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 18, 2015 at 11:30 pm
(October 18, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Chuck Wrote: As a dumb American I once had three mental stereotypes for the Germans:
1. Clean business - they don't cheat on emission tests.
2. Civil politics - they don't assassinate politicians who disagree with them.
3. Dirndls, Lederhosen, Kraftwerk and Rammstein
At least we've still got Lederhosen and Rammstein.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 19, 2015 at 4:33 am
(October 18, 2015 at 11:30 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (October 18, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Chuck Wrote: As a dumb American I once had three mental stereotypes for the Germans:
1. Clean business - they don't cheat on emission tests.
2. Civil politics - they don't assassinate politicians who disagree with them.
3. Dirndls, Lederhosen, Kraftwerk and Rammstein
At least we've still got Lederhosen and Rammstein.
And beer.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Well, sometimes bigotry doesn't stop at words
October 19, 2015 at 4:39 am
And porn!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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