<a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou,17990/">The Onion</a> is sometimes too close to reality for comfort.
...many people who've commented on this post are just as generalizing and ignorant as those the article satirizes.
Disturbingly close to the truth some say? Couldn't be further from it.
Some people happen to oppose a muslim-affiliated community center with a dedicated prayer area because they think it is just a stupid idea. Its aims at mending wounds are bound to only incite irrational feelings on both sides. It just happens to be my opinion that we ought to be more considerate of 9/11 victims and their families than we are to muslims who could build their community center with a dedicated prayer center elsewhere very easily. And yes, many many 9/11 victims and their families do not support the mosque...dear god, I've called it a mosque. Excuse me, it's actually just a muslim-affiliated community center with a dedicated prayer area.
But no, it's impossible that I might have a defensible or respectable point (I shudder to think that I might even be right, because any opinion not abundantly tolerant of a minority MUST be somehow racially driven). Instead, I must be a raving conservative lunatic, bound by my hatred for muslim people. The fact that they do not share the same values as me means that they must be animals in my eyes.
I am stupid. Therefore I believe that if some muslims are terrorists, then ALL muslims are terrorists.
Yes, that makes sense. Because I am a stupid, ignorant conservative.
Very ironic indeed.
**Just a footnote, I'm not responding to the article, but the individuals who have responded to the FP saying that it is so close to the truth that it's almost not funny.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
This message last edited by MalkierKnight on 02/09/2010 at 10:58:52 PM
Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims
- 02/09/2010 10:34:55 AM
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Yes, that is disturbingly accurate
- 02/09/2010 11:00:31 AM
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When I click on a link embedded in a post
- 02/09/2010 02:14:35 PM
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It's a browser option, not one of the site here 
*NM*
- 02/09/2010 02:33:59 PM
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*NM*
- 02/09/2010 02:33:59 PM
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Are you sure?
- 02/09/2010 02:41:39 PM
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Yeah, that's what I figure too, because some links open in a separate tab and others don't for me. *NM*
- 02/09/2010 02:45:33 PM
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Try clicking this link again, with the left mouse button
- 02/09/2010 02:50:43 PM
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Mmmm, which link? Camilla's?
- 02/09/2010 02:53:44 PM
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Yes
- 02/09/2010 03:05:11 PM
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Did you edit her link to add the target=_blank part?
- 02/09/2010 04:43:16 PM
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How would Floffe do that? Only Camilla or an admin can do that, and an admin wouldn't. *NM*
- 02/09/2010 05:27:53 PM
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Well Floffe could be an admin for all I know 
But I thought he was talking to me
- 02/09/2010 06:48:41 PM
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But I thought he was talking to me
- 02/09/2010 06:48:41 PM
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My reply was directed at Jens, as he seems to have something funky going on *NM*
- 02/09/2010 05:56:55 PM
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not on mine
- 02/09/2010 03:00:18 PM
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I have no idea what you're talking about
- 02/09/2010 03:06:21 PM
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And there was me thinking you were of some use
- 02/09/2010 03:12:16 PM
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- 02/09/2010 03:12:16 PM
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Mine too; clicking the link with the scrollwheel doesn't open anything. *NM*
- 02/09/2010 04:40:57 PM
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He means what happens when you click anywhere else on the screen with the middle button.
- 02/09/2010 03:48:30 PM
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I think that is a setting...
- 02/09/2010 05:41:09 PM
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The two aren't mutually exclusive.
- 02/09/2010 06:24:29 PM
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still, that's another setting. but who wants the scrollything anyway? *NM*
- 02/09/2010 06:31:08 PM
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Middle click (scroll wheel, that is) should open it in a new window/tab *NM*
- 02/09/2010 02:52:07 PM
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i think that guy's sister posted the same thought process on my ex-wife's facebook page
- 02/09/2010 09:10:05 PM
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This is one of those instances where it's less funny because it's true *NM*
- 02/09/2010 10:14:15 PM
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I find it ironic that...
- 02/09/2010 10:58:24 PM
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I like your reply.
- 02/09/2010 11:06:29 PM
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Well...
- 03/09/2010 04:25:13 AM
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For me it was from years of watching how muslims that I have worked with were treated.
- 03/09/2010 05:24:38 AM
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You mean the three replies that relate to the contents of the link?
- 03/09/2010 10:29:41 AM
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Too accurate to be funny.
- 03/09/2010 01:41:58 AM
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Re: Too accurate to be funny.
- 03/09/2010 08:18:28 AM
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i see what you did there.... *NM*
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