On Judging Others

I don't get why this is something that conservatives have a hard-on about. It's not "political correctness", whatever the hell that is; it's the correction of a misnomer. The people you refer to are not from India. Why on Earth would we call them "indians"?It's the arrogance of the conservative, I guess; their arrogant assumption that the peoples of the world look to them to know what the hell they should call themselves.

Come on. Get real.How long do you think it was before people realized that North America and India were two different places? And yet, they persisted in the term "indians" for people who weren't at all indian.The "mistake" persisted for centuries because of an entire culture's arrogant presumption that they got to determine what other people were called. Sure, there's a little bit of outrage there. But I guess cultural offense only counts to you if it's white people being offended.

In a news conference at Chicago O'Hare airport, Bush (Sr. is who we're talking about, BTW) addressed the entire nation:

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I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

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Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sure Schraf and the rest of us weren't aware that in the Coffeehouse, the rule was that you could just make up your own facts.What you call "pedantry", the rest of us call "not being wrong." Maybe you should consider how mature it appears that every time you're corrected on even the most basic point, you through a huge bitch-fit about how unreasonable it is for the rest of us to expect you to be largely correct on the facts.Apparently you think it's ok to be wrong on the details if you get the bigger picture correct. I would have thought that after two years of embarassing debate failures on your part here at EvC, you would have realized that doesn't seem to be working. It's because you see being accurate as "pedantic" that you're almost always wrong about everything else. How can you derive a correct view from incorrect facts?

You'd know all about those, wouldn't you? No, I haven't forgotten, nor have I forgotten that you still haven't apologized.

Oh, poor baby! Easy enough for her to insult everybody else, but it's obviously too much to be borne when others return the favor. How dare they hit back!