tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post714453296539841554..comments2023-10-02T01:11:04.783-07:00Comments on Mahound's <br>Paradise: That Obnoxious CartoonOakes Spaldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-43394437764337006002015-01-23T16:20:32.117-08:002015-01-23T16:20:32.117-08:00Thanks for your comment.
As much as I think the t...Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />As much as I think the term "racism" has become almost meaningless through misuse, if it has any meaning, then I think it applies to the lack of coverage of what's happening in Nigeria. The implicit assumption (maybe it's even unconscious) is that these are just teeming overpopulated third world places where people track their tribal rivalries by killing each other over religion, or whatever. Ho hum.<br /><br />I also went to high school in Massachusetts. The Commonwealth School on Comm. Ave in Boston. I'm 51.Oakes Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-7047666452078605062015-01-23T16:09:03.360-08:002015-01-23T16:09:03.360-08:00Thanks, Brian. I appreciate it.Thanks, Brian. I appreciate it.Oakes Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078500142758654392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-65340694276298416602015-01-23T09:04:09.206-08:002015-01-23T09:04:09.206-08:00I hope you aren't intimidated into silence (an...I hope you aren't intimidated into silence (and I rather doubt you would be) more importantly I hope the "international authorities" don't decide on the easy way out of acting o a complaint about someone who says things other people don't like.<br />I have said before that your blog makes me uneasy when I read it because I have to think about what you say and decide if I am okay with it. Most of the time it is a matter of degrees I am okay with some things less so with others. Which is a good thing over all to quote Jon Stewart "I don't agree with you but I am pretty sure you are not Hitler". It seems to me as someone who make little effort to follow the various controversies that face the world that tolerance of views different from your own is dying out. To hold a different view makes you evil, not wrong but evil some kind of threat to society. Mostly I just end up confused. What happened in France was horrible but I can't help wondering why it is more evil than killing over 100 children in a school in Pakistan or over a 1000 people in Nigeria. I just don't understand how those two stories get almost no coverage and the Charlie Hebdo atrocity gets weeks of coverage and world leaders having a march. In the age of internet trolldom some people can work themselves up over what they perceive I am saying but I am a fairly literal person. I don't want to diminish any of these events nor am I trying to rank them in some kind of order of importance. I am saying I don't understand why the surprise (not shock or horror) over what happened in France (and I am not saying they brought it on themselves) when the other two seemed to get the reaction of oh look violent extremists did something horrible over there and now on to deflategate.<br />I am a 50 year old white guy with a high school education from Massachusetts in the United States and don't claim to have any insight, knowledge or most importantly solutions for any of this but I do wonder why where an atrocity occurs seems to dictate the emotional response of the portrayed world conscious. Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11354178086764394097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1373152433565591514.post-39363294406701723752015-01-23T05:48:18.184-08:002015-01-23T05:48:18.184-08:00great article. great article. Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01896185264568048652noreply@blogger.com