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In reply to the discussion: Not liking an offensive movie is not an excuse to riot and kill people. [View all]greiner3
(5,214 posts)138. Your OP is so offensive;
I condemn anyone who would post such drivel, ESPECIALLY ON A PROGRESSIVE SITE SUCH AS THIS.
Of course I am nauseated at your post and NOT YOU.
Did I miss any?
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Not liking an offensive movie is not an excuse to riot and kill people. [View all]
Odin2005
Sep 2012
OP
No, but I think the guy who made this is also responsible for the rioting and deaths.
cali
Sep 2012
#1
I can understand demonstrating against a movie -- but killing someone and getting completely
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#165
The "blasphemy" horseshit almost got a Pakistani girl with Down's Syndrome lynched.
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#60
Sure, and it got one of my ancestors burned at the stake in the reign of Bloody Mary Tudor
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2012
#67
So, a US female politician would bear responsibility for getting raped over there
joeglow3
Sep 2012
#125
I agree. However, I was essentially called a supporter of rape for your sentiment just yesterday
joeglow3
Sep 2012
#245
Well if that's the case maybe we should just take their fucking Internet away...
snooper2
Sep 2012
#108
Do those same 'human rights' apply to the estimated 500,000 Iraqi children who
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#135
Religious fundamentalists of three religions caused this, Islamic, Christian and Jewish
Cleita
Sep 2012
#225
No. The fucknuts who are rioting and killing over a stupid little half-assed film
Codeine
Sep 2012
#8
So you are against laws that say you can't yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater?
Tigress DEM
Sep 2012
#69
The fucknuts that made this film wanted this to happen - intended for violence to happen.
ehrnst
Sep 2012
#116
"insane, superstitious vermin" - why am I flashing back to 1930s Germany? I almost
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#137
PPS: In the twenties and the thirties in Germany, the Nazis routinely referred to the Jews as
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#179
PPPPS: Dehumanizing people by calling them 'vermin' is but one step on the road to exterminating
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#215
Ah, not content to call me a Nazi, you do a little doubling down of you own...
Lizzie Poppet
Sep 2012
#246
Little history lesson for you: during the Tet offensive of January 1968, forces
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#253
You keep erecting straw men out of my words, and then knocking them down. I nowhere
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#257
And commenting about a provocative, hateful film is not giving an excuse..it's making an observation
nanabugg
Sep 2012
#2
also, are you saying in the name of human rights we should bomb them in revenge?
graham4anything
Sep 2012
#17
apologies, you didn't I was attempting a corrolation aand i self edited the above
graham4anything
Sep 2012
#110
but I didn't say it as a personal, I said it as a corrolation (a leads to b is c)
graham4anything
Sep 2012
#89
Is there anyone, ANYONE on DU who is saying otherwise? That doesn't mean those stoking the violence
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#5
The Middle East is not the United States. We might like to asert our views and philosophy on them...
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#16
What do you mean by "demand public employees have absolutely no right whatsoever to free speech"?
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#184
Hate speech that incites violence NOT protected. Try calling for harming the President, if you doubt
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#40
We have a Republican official calling for acid attacks on female DNC Senators today...
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#50
Although I wouldn't label it as either necessarily religious nor dangerous, I do agree that
LanternWaste
Sep 2012
#159
Frteeedom of speech is a universal human right AS WEE SEE IT. It is not international law. at all.
robinlynne
Sep 2012
#235
People do not have a right not to be offended in a free society thankyou.ive been saying this 4ever
leftyohiolib
Sep 2012
#21
Are you fluent in English? "Held to account" does not refer only to legal ramifications...
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#161
Denunciation is the first step. Not defend under the guise of a 'free speech' argument...
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#164
I have not seen the film in question so I have no point of reference for judgement on it.
bighart
Sep 2012
#166
It is possible to both denouce the message AND support free speech, at the same time.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#186
Unless you mean to acuse those who are denouncing this ugly, bigoted, inciting filmaker of NOT
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#193
Will you apply the same standard to Salman Rushdie? Or the Danish cartoonist?
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#197
Have you even bothered to see the promotional video? Give me a break. Hate DOES incite.
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#206
I would hope not. But, I can not deal with your defending hate speech and bigotry
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#219
"I can not deal with your defending hate speech and bigotry, so I am done." You dropped this...
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#220
And you have taken every opportunity afforded by a so-called "free speech" argument to
hlthe2b
Sep 2012
#224
So you are saying Libyans and Egyptians are too stupid to see the difference...
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#12
Nearly everyone on DU agrees that there is no excuse for murder. Iraq was, for example,
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#167
this was not libya govt, but people reacting. so we can no more place the blame on libya govt than
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#14
And it is likely that this is a phoney incident ginned up by some intelligence agency...
rfranklin
Sep 2012
#20
i never go into making it something i do not know.... but, yes. there are people that backed this
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#33
Its like the morons in the repubteapartylibertarians taking guns to town hall
graham4anything
Sep 2012
#19
right. intentionally lighting a powder keg isn't right either. this is why
piratefish08
Sep 2012
#22
Either human rights are universal or else slavery and female genital mutilation is OK.
Odin2005
Sep 2012
#234
That declaration would look very different if drafted by the Cherokee nation! For example
nadinbrzezinski
Sep 2012
#250
Exactly, but the teaching in American schools that cultural relativism is bunk
nadinbrzezinski
Sep 2012
#258
Propanganda. Richard Engel just reported that people in the Middle East were told that...
polichick
Sep 2012
#34
And the truth is that the film will be ignored by most. It isn't the sort of thing that would
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#58
And then there were the revelations in the New York Times about the memos prior to 9/11.
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#169
Now there will be a whole lot of people who are going to see it to figure out what this is about.
dkf
Sep 2012
#88
no, it's not. But there is such a thing as recognizing the predictable consequences of one's actions
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2012
#39
Yep - this didn't happen in a vacuum. Much like the Rodney King riots were not about Rodney
ehrnst
Sep 2012
#103
I don't know that you would have a fire..pretty much need an open flame for gasoline to ignite
snooper2
Sep 2012
#114
It's not about religion or the movie. It's about INCITING A RIOT on purpose.
Tigress DEM
Sep 2012
#55
I tend not to take much stock in the reasons that the MSM gives for these things
KurtNYC
Sep 2012
#68
because that is what mobs do. Also, who are "these folks". Is it the entire populous? I doubt it,
still_one
Sep 2012
#104
My whole point has been the creator needs to answer for it instead of hide...
Blue_Tires
Sep 2012
#140
Maybe they saw Michelle Bachmann on one of her rants about Muslim conspiracies?
ehrnst
Sep 2012
#157
Uh, maybe because the films says certain kinds do violence & then certain kinds do violence . . . ?
patrice
Sep 2012
#177
Make that ALL sides: recall why bin Laden went to Afghanistan & why, for decades, the U.S.
patrice
Sep 2012
#207
I'm suggesting that the filmmakers & the rioters could be in collusion. How was the film financed?
patrice
Sep 2012
#221
i.e. there're more than 2 sides & at least some of those sides change back-and-forth with others. nt
patrice
Sep 2012
#208
To answer your question: Because they see no difference between the US Government and Israel
1-Old-Man
Sep 2012
#191
libya was not a reaction to the movie, it was a deliberate strike, not reactionary. Egypt was.
larkrake
Sep 2012
#242
If folks can't deal with freedom of speech or believe they have the right not to be offended
TheKentuckian
Sep 2012
#267