Comments on: Critical thinking about personal beliefs

By: Sanguinity

Sanguinity — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:31:15 +0000

@ kuhniggit

1.) Because I myself am queer, and because I generally prefer the term queer over LGBTQIA.

2.) Susanne Pharr wasn’t offering statistics, but a description of common mechanisms of oppression, and how they’re experienced by diverse groups.

3.) I’m sorry that you were targeted so early. However, your experience notwithstanding, many queers’ first experience of discrimination is in their teens, not in their childhood — the New York public school you mentioned is, in fact, a high school. And even though eight years old is solidly within childhood, many children of color experience racial discrimination earlier than that. Are you familiar with the study about pre-school aged children being asked to choose a doll for themselves, and black children expressing a clear preference for white dolls over black dolls, because they’re “prettier”?

By: Darth Robo

Darth Robo — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:18:49 +0000

I find it very ironic that Fidelus should tell us what’s right and what’s wrong, when his OWN BOOK promotes slavery and incest – among many other things.

I wonder if he goes around murdering (sorry – executing in the name of the Lord) anyone he believes to be a witch?

By: SourBlaze

SourBlaze — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:44:34 +0000

Since so many religious right-wingers want to live in the Dark Ages, I say us science-minded folks should hurry up and build a time machine and shove them back there.

Oh, and I have to say it: Rebecca is hot.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:37:28 +0000

@ pcarini:

By: pcarini

pcarini — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:30:36 +0000

@Fidelus Astronautica: Preach it brother! It is your duty to god and country to gather all of your friends and acquaintances and PRAY for the proper outcome on election day. Whatever you do, don’t go vote, as that would prove that you have no faith….

By: DGKnipfer

DGKnipfer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:13:48 +0000

@ Fidel Astro

Ethiopia is doing quite well under President Girma Wolde-Giorgis. That took me all of 30 seconds to confirm.

Angola is also doing well under President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Nearly a dozen sub-Sahara countries are doing quite well. That just doesn’t make the news. Progress just isn’t sensational enough for the news.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:19:46 +0000

Hey, now. I’m from a midwest state (though transplanted eastward to MA).