5 things because bigotry isn't cool

[truepenny]

1. My fellow Americans, please stop with the logical fallacy inherent in blaming all Muslims for 9/11, or saying all Muslims are potential terrorists, or any of the other horrid bigoted things non-Muslim Americans have been saying for the past ten years. It's like blaming all mathematicians for the Unabomber--or all right-of-center Americans for the Oklahoma City bombings, for that matter. It's ignorant and ugly and I'm really damn tired of it.

2. The First Amendment means no one has the right to make you shut up, no matter how much they hate what you're saying. It doesn't mean you get a free pass to say whatever you want without any responsibility for the consequences. It doesn't mean people have to agree with you, and it doesn't mean they have to suck it up and let you have the last word on the subject, either.

3. I heard a white man, a self-described Alaskan "constitutionalist" (the scare-quotes are mine, not his), explaining his politics yesterday. His answer to everything, of which he seemed very proud, was "Kill the liberals." He was not noticeably joking.

4. Glenn Greenwald on the firing of Juan Williams (link via Saladin Ahmed).

5. Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things.

Comments

[alex51324.livejournal.com]

Dude, when I read items one and two on your list, and item five was not yet visible on my screen, my first thought was, "I ought to give her the link to that muslims wearing things site."

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yes!

[modlin.livejournal.com]

Yes. Thank you.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

those little girls in hajib, doing martial arts? SO BADASS. thank you for that link. :-)

[redheadedfemme]

No. 3 wasn't Joe Miller, was it?

I haven't seen that myself, but it sounds like just the sort of thing he'd say.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

No, this was just some guy. IRL, not on TV or the internet.

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Miller worked for NPR

They called him on his butthurt fruitcakery and canned him. He now has a deal with Fox News. Which isn't unlike saying he has a deal with Barnum and Baily's circus :]