MM–good point about it the “ists” and “isms” as labels of mass destruction. The word “islamist” is a really unfortunate part of the popular lexicon now and your comparison to McCartyism quite prescient.
From CNN a few years ago: “Trump’s alternative would be replicas of the original 110-story towers, only a bit taller. The design and model by architect Ken Gardner, embraced by Trump, offered buildings that would be 1,474 feet — more than a hundred feet taller than the original towers, once the world’s tallest buildings.
“What we need is support to build a bigger and better version of two buildings and more that were taken down by people that were animals,” Trump said. “If something happened to the Statue of Liberty, you wouldn’t rebuild it as something other than the Statue of Liberty.””
Legion, the problem with people that speak and believe as you do, is that you’ve come up with stupid words like “Islamists” to justify mass bigotry against millions of people, because you feel they “might” or “have a tendency” to do us harm because of their religion. How is that any different from MacCarthyism, where countless people’s lives and reputations were ruined by rumors that they may be Communists? You are damning ALL Muslims in order to detect or stop the small minority of those who hate this country, or even broader, hate anyone who isn’t Muslim. These people, by the way, are pretty good at hating their own who don’t adhere to their narrow view of Islam, too. This is not who we are supposed to be, in this country, and I’m not going to defend any political, religious, or cultural policy that denies one group their rights because I don’t happen to like some of their cultural mores. That’s the first step to a slippery slope that makes us no better than the Taliban, or for that matter, most of the Crusaders.
Donald Trump would say that. He’s only made himself rich…if he isn’t leveraged to hell.
MM–good point about it the “ists” and “isms” as labels of mass destruction. The word “islamist” is a really unfortunate part of the popular lexicon now and your comparison to McCartyism quite prescient.
From CNN a few years ago: “Trump’s alternative would be replicas of the original 110-story towers, only a bit taller. The design and model by architect Ken Gardner, embraced by Trump, offered buildings that would be 1,474 feet — more than a hundred feet taller than the original towers, once the world’s tallest buildings.
“What we need is support to build a bigger and better version of two buildings and more that were taken down by people that were animals,” Trump said. “If something happened to the Statue of Liberty, you wouldn’t rebuild it as something other than the Statue of Liberty.””
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I love cannolis. Where’s the Veniero’s equivalent in BK?
hey ET – how your boobs doin?
“”I once heard someone say the only correct response to 9/11 was to rebuild the towers exactly like they were.”
That person wasn’t in real estate finance.”
Actually, Donald Trump said that.
OTOH, I think Mafia honor killings are OK as long as they are just other Mafia members.
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Legion, the problem with people that speak and believe as you do, is that you’ve come up with stupid words like “Islamists” to justify mass bigotry against millions of people, because you feel they “might” or “have a tendency” to do us harm because of their religion. How is that any different from MacCarthyism, where countless people’s lives and reputations were ruined by rumors that they may be Communists? You are damning ALL Muslims in order to detect or stop the small minority of those who hate this country, or even broader, hate anyone who isn’t Muslim. These people, by the way, are pretty good at hating their own who don’t adhere to their narrow view of Islam, too. This is not who we are supposed to be, in this country, and I’m not going to defend any political, religious, or cultural policy that denies one group their rights because I don’t happen to like some of their cultural mores. That’s the first step to a slippery slope that makes us no better than the Taliban, or for that matter, most of the Crusaders.