In case you didn't know that it was the U.C. Board of Regents that invented the idea of using gas chambers to euthanize the allegedly "genetically unfit."
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torturedbythecia:
@Jozsef This is BDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNSsb1O9FfA
torturedbythecia:
@jozsef This is BDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzzxZ96wnc
...claiming Israel is made up of "white" European imperialists who stole the land of an innocent indigenous population (which was nearly non-existent at the time and only exploded due to the massive number of jobs and flourishing economy the Jews brought to Mandatory Palestine)... Remember that Israel also rescued over 1,000,000 Jews from Arab lands as well and brought them to Israel - about half...
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torturedbythecia:
@kaicito This guy says the same kind of thing as that article - but with a lot more sardonic vitriol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jiNMg1PAk
kaicito:
At work now... I'll check it out laterz! Thanks!
Imagine what anti-American propaganda says about us now, and imagine what would happen if we launched attacks at any nation that burned an American flag...
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... I remember the day one of my Hmong friends messaged me crying (literally) that Obama had denied General Pao burial at Arlington. But I only recently found out he actually praised the leaders of the North Vietnamese... Despicable man.
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torturedbythecia:
@Jozsef As for the Homng - here's where one of my friends spent her life until she was 5 in Laos: http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-20341912.jpg?size=67&uid=f127c2dd-6805-4e56-ac60-5e64b1887829 --- eventually her family moved to the United States and in a single generation she's taking Calculus and Organic Chemistry with me and went to UC Santa Barbara. The Hmong didn't even have a written language 60 years ago. She was thrilled when she met me that I had known something about who the Hmong were and how they ended up in the United States otherwise frustrated that nobody really understood and just assumed they're all Chinese or Korean or something when their immigration story is much much different and fraught with massacres, refugee camps, and suffering. I took it as somewhat of an insult when President Obama refused General Pao (the Hmong tribal leader who sided with the CIA and unified the Hmong tribes against the VC) Arlington, but it wasn't until I discovered his praising of Ho Chi Minh that I was enraged by it.
torturedbythecia:
@jozsef In short, the American Left's perpetual sanitizing of the genocides and mass killings by communists in the 20th century combined with their perpetual hatred of Nazis (totally justified and I'm in full agreement) is more than a little cause for concern in my book. When people grow up thinking Hitler is the most evil thing to walk this planet and knowing nothing of Stalin and Mao's massacres - you're living under revisionist historians.
I've had it for years on CD-ROM - but the CD-ROM I have has an anti-piracy thing that only works on 32-bit OS. I've since upgraded to 64-bit in the past several years so I've been woefully without my OED.
Now I have rectified that for CHEAP!!! *Drool*
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jozsef:
Oh, I know that.
torturedbythecia:
@jozsef Fair enough, I was kind of groggy when I first read your comment and when I looked it over again after I replied I kind of realized you did know that but you were talking about having a different dictionary from Oxford that is paperback. I appreciate the full breadth of the English language - to be alienated from one's language is to be alienated from one's culture - it is the first step in destroying one's own civilization through the willful acceptance of ignorance and alienation from the centuries old continuity of English-speaking society.
The reality is, they're just so hateful towards Christianity and Jews that they don't see themselves as the monsters they are. The DNC will raise a massive stink because women have to purchase their own birth control if they're working for a deeply religious company - as if there's some Constitutional right to have your employer pay for your free sexual choices (and feminists accuse...
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kaicito:
Much as I agree, I find the emerging field of Republican contenders (almost) as bad. All those religious nutcases and neo-cons who never met a military intervention they didn't like...am I glad that I don't have to vote in the U.S. (unless Rand Paul is the nominee, I'd find it easy to pull the lever for him, even if he's strayed a bit from the strict noninterventionism of his Dad).
torturedbythecia:
@kaicito I'm no neo-con... I'm hardly really what anyone would otherwise call a conservative other than I think the American left is currently insane or delusional or has its head so far up its postmodern academic ass that it fails to connect with reality anymore.
And I hate the new Star Trek movies:
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zuriel:
I agree. What's funny is that the movie actually starts with Kirk making the moral decision at the expense of the prime directive. I was actually temporarily fooled by the opening sequence into thinking the movie was going to be okay. All of the character assassination aside, maybe I could have enjoyed it for what it was if it had any story to tell, but it didn't. The characters didn't evolve and the movie couldn't even follow it's own logic.
torturedbythecia:
@zuriel That's true - though Kirk is known for doing that. I honestly believe the "extinction" scenario for the Prime Directive is ridiculous. As if letting an entire species die rather than render aid and risk cultural contamination is somehow morally justified. In reality, I don't care about half a dozen suborders of the Prime Directive, it's my least favorite thing in Star Trek when it comes to what I consider otherwise extreme moral imperatives that would demand interference in a society. If I wrote a Star Trek series, I'd place it in the 25th century and have the Federation split into two factions over the moral imperatives of interference when failure to do so may result in extinction. I feel like they took the Prime Directive too far for my moral tastes when I'm perfectly understanding of not just showing up at everyone's pre-warp culture and handing over technology, or interfering with internal wars, or otherwise - but when things like natural disasters threaten a species, I see the Prime Directive as insanely bureaucratic bullshit. However, I would also argue that it is so extreme, even as an affront to moral decency, so as to provide an antagonist in the institution of the Federation itself. If that were not the intent, they certainly wouldn't have the main characters violating it so frequently in the different series.
Even those who have done good in some ways may be morally misguided on other points...