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#1406513
JSS
Aww. Maybe one day I'll cram the last bit of my own personal empathy into a little ball and shove it away. Then I can make nonsensical comparisons to the Holocaust on things I disagree with, and speak to those of other faiths and sexual orientations with vitriol. Sounds like fun, but, it shan't be today.
5/24/2012 12:15:27 PM
#1406516
Anon
But don't you all realise that if gay marriage is legalised we'll all catch teh gay?????
5/24/2012 12:39:50 PM
#1406517
Passerby
You are even more disgustingly irreverant and malicious with the use of the term 'Holocaust' than Israel's current government.
And that's saying something.
Disclaimer: Nothing against the religion itself, (okay so there's more than a few passages in Abrahamic texts that scare the shit out of me and put me in a vengeful state of mind, but overall...) just the assholes using it and past atrocities committed against the innocent as an excuse for being such assholes. I mean seriously, what the fuck? Promising genocide against other countries? Do they mock their OWN suffering? jewish philosopher, who has shown up several times on this site with words to scare the living shit out of everyone by, is a prime example of that mindset.
Asshole.
In the words of some musicians whose names I can't remember: An injustice anywhere is an injustice... anywhere.
5/24/2012 12:52:31 PM
#1406518
OscarApollo
"The politically-correct liberalization of Judaism in America"
Okay, I was raised as an Orthodox Jew, so lemme stop you there. I'm calling bullshit on this. There is nothing even remotely progressive or politically correct about Judaism. This is a religion when you're meant to pray every day to thank God you were born neither a gentile nor a woman. Yeah, super PC, right?
5/24/2012 1:05:03 PM
#1406520
Creedence Leonore Gielgud
5/24/2012 1:08:41 PM
#1406525
tranz2deep
Y'know, that was a huge buildup just to go beating the dead horse of miscegenation.
Then tossing homophobia in to further divide up everyone? Please.
Go beat off to the old counter-prop film "Don't Be A Sucker" so you might absorb an actual ideal (unity over divisiveness) instead of being all pent up and stupid.
5/24/2012 1:21:06 PM
#1406530
What the hell? Some random Jewish woman scores with some nun, and you accuse an entire community of the fucking holocaust? The freakin' Jewish community at that? FUCK YOU where it hurts, asshole!
5/24/2012 1:35:27 PM
#1406531
Auratwilight
Any moral system that makes it bad to feel empathy, sympathy, kindness, or compassion to certain people is WRONG.
5/24/2012 1:43:29 PM
#1406535
checkmate
a Holocaust of Assimilation
Well, if you want to make sure you're different and remain so, you could start out with your clothing.
For example, you could sew a big yellow David's star on the front of everything you wear. How about that?
And just to show you that two can play the game of words, you shouldn't worry too much about the Holocaust of Assimilation. I'm sure you'll come up with a Final Solution for your Jewish Question.
Doesn't sound too nice when other people use those analogies, does it?
Really, get a life. A nice reformed life.
5/24/2012 1:49:23 PM
#1406545
aaa
Holocaust as a word is dead. It is beaten savagely until it refuses to mean anything anymore.
5/24/2012 2:20:45 PM
#1406547
solomongrundy
I thought the fundie fear was Sharia law being imposed in the USA and now it seems that liberal Jews are re-writing the laws. I can't keep up with this...
5/24/2012 2:25:49 PM
#1406548
Dr.Shrinker
"First comes recognition of the ‘pain’ of others with our empathy and sympathy, then some measure toleration, then more toleration and acceptance, and finally Laws are amended."
Its because of that dynamic that Jews are no longer forced to live in ghettos or treated like resident aliens in most of the countries where they are born. Now granted, I know that rabbis look back on those times as "the good ol' days." After all, the rabbis had near total control over their communities then. But trust me, the popular condemnation of anti-Antisemitism and the closing of Jewish ghettos really is a good thing for humanity.
5/24/2012 2:28:30 PM
#1406551
Snake
Dionysus' last three sentences made my day, and I don't even watch Star Trek.
5/24/2012 2:38:18 PM
#1406568
Old Viking
Photos?
5/24/2012 3:32:31 PM
#1406570
Dynamic Dragon
I'd say this hits the trifecta
5/24/2012 3:39:03 PM
#1406592
Raised by Horses
Words, words, words.
5/24/2012 7:13:03 PM
#1406614
naggers
Tolerance, the word you're looking for is tolerance.
5/24/2012 11:39:37 PM
#1406616
Paler_Face
First comes recognition of the ‘pain’ of others with our empathy and sympathy, then some measure toleration, then more toleration and acceptance, and finally Laws are amended.
That's a GOOD thing.
...Holocaust ...
GODWIN! You lose.
5/25/2012 12:40:11 AM
#1406632
eldritchMortician
Gosh yes, who needs empathy?
....oh, yeah. People who aren't psycopaths...
5/25/2012 3:54:00 AM
#1406633
whatever
"Personalized heart-breaking stories can lead or manipulate more and more good people to making long-term incremental changes that eventually harm their own community. First comes recognition of the ‘pain’ of others with our empathy and sympathy, then some measure toleration, then more toleration and acceptance, and finally Laws are amended."
This is the slippery slope scenario. It implies we must always be rigidly opposed to anything not approved by the bible, and even the slightest hint of doubt will trigger an avalanche of permanenet destructive changes.
5/25/2012 3:56:51 AM
#1406662
fishtank
You shouldn't blame others for your own lousy family life.
5/25/2012 6:25:40 AM
#1406698
Sentry Gun
Stop telling us gays are humans too ! People could begin to sympathize !
5/25/2012 8:16:06 AM
#1406732
Xotan
There is toleration.
There is no such thing as too much toleration.
There is no such thing as too little toleration.
There is only toleration.
But toleration cannot be conditional, else it becomes something other than toleration.
In other words, differention between ethnic groups, skin colours, belief systems, secual orientation, etc is not toleration. Real toleration obliterates differences and anathemises the concept of recognising such differetiation.
5/25/2012 12:01:50 PM
#1406758
knotilus
EEK! Tolerance that might lead to acceptance!? We can't have that.
5/25/2012 2:43:52 PM
#1406802
Hoplite
I always wondered what made the minds of Adolf Hitler and his Jew-hating followers tick, with the expressed hatred of Jews. It's either "haters gotta hate" or misfiring brain neurons.
5/25/2012 7:16:32 PM
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