372 sats \ 33 replies \ @grayruby 27 Jul \ on: The Tragic End of the Olympic Games culture
Olympics are supposed to be family friendly. That portion of the ceremony was most certainly not family friendly.
Could you imagine the backlash if they had mocked any religion other than Christianity?
My father was watching the show happily on our 65" Sony TV and he suddenly went out calling a few abusive words (of course in Hindi) for the Olympics.
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We don’t have to imagine
Catholicism/Christianity have lost power and, above all, respect. As @simplestaker says, there are only a couple of religions that we have to be aware of their reactions. I am not religious or a believer, and I find the abuses, murders and aberrations committed in the name of a God absurd. Personally, I am not offended by the scene of the last supper, but I do find it disturbing and disturbing to see those people with that appearance.
Ironically, thank God the Holy Inquisition is over.
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I don’t think you have to be religious to find it off putting to mock a specific religion during a celebration of global sport.
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Power outage in Paris
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I was just in X and saw this video. What's happening to France? First the left wins, the disastrous show at the Olympics and now this.
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edit: too many immigrants from the wrong countries
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Are there immigrants from the right countries?
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Amy Wax:
“Why are successful, peaceful, orderly, prosperous, technologically advanced, democratically sound countries so rare and so few, and why do they clump up in one tiny corner of the globe, namely Europe, the Anglosphere? We also have Japan, which is a wonder, I think, in many ways, a very admirable country. Perhaps Taiwan. And why is the rest of the world essentially consisting of, in various degrees, failed states? Why do we have a post-Enlightenment portion of the world and a pre-Enlightenment portion of the world? And I guess, to be really crude about it, you would use Trump’s succinct phrase: Why are there so many shithole countries? Of course the moment you say that, people just get outraged: Oh, my God, you are a racist for saying that. And that, of course, lets them off the hook; they don’t have to answer the question, which is convenient."
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In conclusion... There are wrong and right people of any birth, generalizing would be an abstract thought.
The article reminded me of a conversation with a boy, he is darker skinned than me. In Venezuela the word "black" is used as a nickname, in a loving way without any kind of offense. I greeted this boy and said: Hello "black", how are you? - He asked me kindly, I don't remember exactly what he said, but I do remember very well what I said to him, because it is a thought, an idea that is deeply rooted in me. I told him: "Calling you black is not racist. Racist is that you believe that the word "black" is racist. It is your skin color, you can't do anything about it, just accept it, it is not something you should feel offended by, they are just colors." "I am short according to the average height, I am thin according to the average build and I am "white" according to the average skin tones in Venezuela, they have called me all kinds of things: skinny, white, dwarf, small... and what? Does that make me less? Does that make me less capable? Does it make me less intelligent? Is what they tell me a lie? No, it's not a lie, it's my body and I accept it and I don't feel offended if they say it to me in a good tone. Really, it all depends on the context and meaning you give to the words.
I'm sorry if I'm completely off topic, one idea leads to another and so on. Back to the topic, it's hard to know or maybe yes, I don't know. "I only know that I know nothing." Is mixing cultures what leads to an abysmal imbalance? Or is it just easier to blame foreigners? Example: Colombians emigrated en masse to Venezuela in the 60's or 80's approximately, there were millions of them, of course there were Venezuelans who agreed and others who repudiated them and blamed them for everything... years later, communism ruined Venezuela and millions of Venezuelans emigrated to Colombia, now they are the ones who repudiate and blame for everything, every bad thing, every crime, or whatever. Ironically we are sister countries with cultures that are 90% similar. Whose fault is it?
One reason for the Spanish Inquisition was to expel the Moors who conquered Spain and Portugal in 720.
Or as George Costanza would say, the Moops!
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Yes I saw it. I said "could you imagine the backlash if they had mocked any religion other than Christianity". I know they mocked Christianity. I am just pointing out it is ok and in fashion for the leftists to hate Christianity but if this ceremony had mocked Islam they would have been calling for the organizers to be tried at the Hague.
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To be fair, there's only one religion whose reaction we have to constantly worry about.
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The Amish, they are always causing trouble
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