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To make it appear as though all Muslims feel and believe this way is misinformation itself, and to have right-wing tool Ron Silver as the narrator doesn't help things, either.
Farhad, American politics has been full of rubbish since colonial times. Wake up from your fairy tale, and deal with reality for what it is, not what you think it should be.
Personally I think the increase of politically oriented videos here will ultimately bring the viewing quality of the site down, so as of now I simply vote down any political video I see. It's my own futile response, but at least I'm doing something about it.
We all have very strong views that we hold dear, but debating a subject is such a vital part of the Human Condition. If we give up because others don't agree with us or we feel we are the minority, then the whole system becomes one-sided.
We need each other. If nothing other than to challenge our own ways of thinking. If we are not challenged, we become zealots.
On both sides.
I completely agree, however...
"Good luck in your mission to spread smallmindedness and ignorance, Wumpus. "
Case...in...point.
You don't have to get involved in the debate, wumpus. Or if someone says something insulting, you don't have to respond. We sometimes forget that there is a person behind the type-set and we let our emotions run away with us...doesn't make it right, but it makes us Human.
Some of us feel affected by what certain people are doing in the Government, and we have a visceral reaction to it. We sometimes attack dissenting voices because that's all we feel we can do. I'm guilty of it, and I apologize if I've ever insulted anyone's views. But debate is so very vital at this time...what we do in November will affect History on a huge scale - one way or the other, no matter what your political views are.
Postings of "X being stuipid", or "Y gets pwned by Z" or "Q thinks the camera's not on" is not honest, or bold, it's puerile. I've learned that lesson already, and it's not hard to figure out what the poster's intent was, otherwise it wouldn't have been done that way in the first place. It's not about the content, it's about sitting back and laughing at the target because the poster has already told you what the outcome is. It's like declareing the defendant guilty before the trial and the trial is simply a show to see how the conclusion was reached.
Nobody likes an honest debate more then I do, but I do not suffer fools lightly. If you're going to challenge an idea, you better be able to provide an alternative. If you're going to critizice a policy, then you better have another solution. If you're going to show me a graphic montage of photos with an alternative rock band playing in the background, it's not going to impress me.
You can disagree with people, even passionately, but still maintain a level of courteous discourse. I'm a little further right-wing than Moses, but I have several close friends that are almost as far left as Chomsky. Somehow we manage to have raging debates and keep smiles on our faces the whole time when we meet for coffee in Tel Aviv from time to time. Would be nice to see some of that develop here.
Sure, I'll go get some editing skills and then somehow get access to Middle Eastern television, just so I can prove a point to an idiot on the internets.
At no point was I defending what was being said in the tape (even though I'm sure you really wanna believe I was), merely that it was also propaganda - it made absolutely no effort to give an even-handed look at Al Jazeera and so forth, which is why I'm sure Ron Silver signed on.
I hate to tell you this, but Al Jazeera is going to be on American TV soon. They have ambitions to be another CNN, Fox News, etc. - and given their access and unique perspective, they just might succeed. So get used to seeing "Arabia" (*snort*) from a point-of-view that doesn't fit the right-wing stereotypes.
Aren't most of these? The guy bungee jumping onto his feet...the girls kissing...the firecracker in the mouth.... Don't you have a visceral reaction to it? Simply because some of the videos here are political does not mean it brings the collective down. Personally, I'm glad there are many facets of the diamond here...it keeps this place diverse.
However, I got more of a 'viscous' reaction to the girls kissing.