| Hank Chinaski |
01-20-2007 03:56 PM |
Muslim whining of the day, part 67
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Originally posted by taxwonk
Your points are all addressed to the question of whether or not Northwestern should accede to the student's request. I note first that most people are not suggesting that the school should. Some of the posters were concerned about a slipperey slope argument, and didn't think the request should be granted. Other posters were pretty much indifferent and didn't really seem to care one way or the other. A third group noted that there were many sports traditions that stemmed from deference to Chirstianity. I don't really recall anyone saying specifically that Northwestern should provide a prayer room.
But all of that is completely beside the point. The real issue is whether it was hateful and wrong for Slave to make a big deal out of it. What people are really divided on is whether or not we are infavor of Slave to be using this forum to spread religious or cultural intolerance. ON that issue, there seem to be two schools of thought. There are those who disapprove and are calling Slave on it and those who are beniding over backward to defend his bigotry.
With that in mind, let me offer a more apropos hypo.
Say you go to MSU games. You have a need to say "fuck all ragheads and camel jockeys" five or six times a night. Suppose other people are offended by that. Should the entire stadium be forced to listen and accept it while you are escorted to the annnouncers' booth to use the public address system to share your message or should you ne encouraged to stick your head up your ass and whisper it?
Note that, as on the PB, it has not been suggested that you be prevented from saying it or thrown out of the stadium for doing so.
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first of all, i did make a quite good point- maybe I'll start annotating my posts- my point was that no other religion would ask for the change. The country is being asked to allow driver's license photos of veiled women, etc for Muslims.
I illustrated that, in at least one instance, a group of Jewish people choose not to ask for things to be changed to suit them. Adder, that nitwit, mentions his teammate the Mormon. Without intending to, he supports my point also.
of course, the fact is that my point was BS since I'm fairly sure Macabee coaches have asked for a no-Saturday schedule. To be honest, I even offered to call and ask for the special schedule.
given that reality, what is odd isn't that some kid asked- assuming he was refused- what is odd is that it is treated as a story.
And I would say that Slave was probably just a little geeked up by the way the story was spun on the webpage where he probably found it.
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