to the 3000 people who died on 9/11/01.

In fact, tell their families, I'm sure it will make them feel better...


by bobo1 on 11/24/2009 03:45:08 PM EST


Bobo, Were you trying to state a family is more devastated because they were the victim of terrorism VS being the family of a victim of homicide?

Its true 3,000 families were destroyed on 9/11/01. Its also true 12,000 families were also destroyed that year because of the choices of Americans. Since then every year on average another 12-13,000 American families have been devastated by the choices "average everyday americans". The point is that to single out and racial profile someone because they are Muslim makes no sense. The actions of all these people are inexcusable, so why is it ok for some to be profiled while the group committing the highest percentage of crimes goes unnoticed? 

by Don Squeek on 11/24/2009 04:07:33 PM EST

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What this boils down to is that Bobo just doesn't like Muslims or any other minorities.  He does not care how many people die in domestic homocides, because FOX doesn't implore him 50 times a week to be afraid of such a thing--they are too friendly with the NRA to plant a seed of regulating domestic handguns.  He does not care how many die from lack of health care, or from cancer due to a contaminated water supply, or from starvation/homelessness, or certainly not from collateral damage as a result of war.  (And we're just talking about good white Christian soldiers--he _really_ doesn't care about the brown people we accidentally kill in other countries as we are trying to take out a couple thousand bad guys.)

  The only deaths that "matter" to him are those on 9/11 and from other Muslim acts of terrorism, totalling a few thousand in the US in the last 25 years vs. literally millions of these other often-preventable deaths.  But FOX doesn't care about those deaths--they care about pouring all of our money into defense contractors, so Conservatives come to believe that terrorism is 20 times the threat that climate change or our health system or pollution or general mental instability are.

And, as a perfectly ironic little "F*ck You" to logic and sanity, he claims he is pro-life.
 

by Milltycoon on 11/25/2009 04:44:38 AM EST

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Even the 9/11 victims' chances of being targeted by terrorism, rounded to the nearest thousanth of a percent, was zero. Those odds aren't enough for anyone to justify living their life in fear of theoretical violence. Like it or not, even a 9/11 victim's family member needs to understand that.

by OneHitKill on 11/24/2009 08:18:07 PM EST

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Not like a certain group of people? You call it discrimination, I call it having common sense... Muslims need to regulate themselves and show that they aren't a bunch of crazies. Christians too - they're all a bunch of fucks...

by bobo1 on 11/24/2009 08:55:15 PM EST

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Did I say anything about discrimination, Bobo? Or was that reply intended for someone else? Someone imaginary? A man made of straw, perhaps?

by OneHitKill on 11/24/2009 11:05:08 PM EST

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