Subj : Re: ah, college newspapers... To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 02:02:16 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote in news:Xns96D7C6B6A41BAndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> Nick wrote in >> news:Xns96D7C2C941BFDndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>>> Nick wrote in >>>> news:Xns96D7C1922B5BFndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: >>>> >>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Nick wrote in >>>>>> news:Xns96D7B3E543115ndtcm@68.1.17.6: >>>>>> >>>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Nick wrote in >>>>>>>> news:Xns96D7A6E1B51CAndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> John I wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> John I wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/cgpu3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's abotu that anne coulter wanna-be at UNC, isn't >>>>>>>>>>>>>> it? >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh: >>>>>>>>>>>>> http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=74527 >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> While a weird thing to write (as she phrased it), it >>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't sound like she should have been fired for >>>>>>>>>>>> bringing it up. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> They got her because she manipulated and distorted the >>>>>>>>>>> interviews. It's a journalistic ethics thing. And now >>>>>>>>>>> she gets to go on the talk show circuit and whine about >>>>>>>>>>> how liberal academics discriminate against racist 'winger >>>>>>>>>>> bitches. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Oh, okay. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> They got her because it was the politically correct thing >>>>>>>>> to do. Journalists don't have ethics. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It's a mystery to me how things became so inverted. >>>>>>>> Somehow, I am supposed to be ashamed that I deplore vicious >>>>>>>> race baiting like the sill 'winger bitch was doing because >>>>>>>> and if I speak out against it the litle twit can can claim >>>>>>>> that I am persecuting her. She's a racist bitch, for god's >>>>>>>> sake! She should be persecuted! She's bad. There's nothing >>>>>>>> good about race baiting. And when you throw in the fact that >>>>>>>> she lied and distorted the interviews to support her twisted >>>>>>>> point of view, there is no way she can be redeemed. She is >>>>>>>> poison. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Does she have a right to hold those points of view? hell >>>>>>>> yes. Doe she have a right to avoid the consequences of her >>>>>>>> anti-social lip? hell no! She made her bed, now she has to >>>>>>>> sleep in it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> From what I can see in the other Op-Ed piece in her school >>>>>>> paper she didn't lie at all. I like the way you find it >>>>>>> necessary to tack "bitch" onto every description of her. I >>>>>>> think she is just a kid who wrote a column hoping to get a >>>>>>> reaction out of people. Did you see her anti-greek column >>>>>>> where she referred to the "sorroristutes"? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> She's a supid ;winger bitch who wrote some very unnecessary >>>>>> and cruel rascist tripe. Why you are defending her, I don't >>>>>> know. She's bad, dishonest, cruel, and a racist and for those >>>>>> reasons she doesn't deserve a position on the school newspaper >>>>>> and she doesn't deserve a place in my tax-funded university. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Arabic is not a race. >>>> >>>> Neither is Jewish, or Christian. Would you find it ok if I >>>> suggested that the pope should have an anal cavity search when >>>> he goes through and airport? I mean the last one must have been >>>> used to it, he assumed the position every time. >>>> Ted >>>> >>> >>> Ok, by me. >>> >> >> Well, maybe that was a bad choice I mean the current one is a >> German. >> Ted >> > > Actually, the pope is one specific person so it isn't really a good > comparison. No but it was a great mental image and one that pointsout that a minority group can be descriminated against not just because of their race. It doesn't make it any different. > I think there is a lot of wiggle room between pure > profiling and the totally random checks that they currently make. > For example, I would assess a woman with a baby as an especially low > risk on an airplane flight. Unless you count the baby as a > psychological terrorist. There was an article a few years ago in the scientific american IIRC in which p-sychologists showed people a mix of pictures of arabs,jews and native americans and asked them to sort them into their racial groups. Most of the test subjects failed. This is one of the problems with racial profiling when it is applied. Yes it's easy to say that Arab looking guy over there is a terrorist suspect and search him. Unfortunately he is a hindu from the Kashmir and it totally ignores the fact that the eastern European caucasian chap in the queue next to him is a member of the Polish muslim community which has been in the country for centuries. Looking at peoples faces is a shitty way to tell what they think or have been up to, it's easy but it isn't going to help. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .