ninepalace wrote:internalenthusiast wrote:lol. good comments so far on this thread.
ninepalace only starts pimp threads.
internalenthusiast wrote:personally, seeing the clip, i thought it was a charming and affectionate gesture of congratulations between two people who obviously care about each other. i think faux news missed the "muslim bottom spank" just after.
but i can't believe how you guys are laughing off an observation of the most watched and most respected news network in america.
just wait till obama forces praying to meca 5x a day. i don't want to have to say i told you so.
hi...i assumed there was sarcasm in your initial post. i didn't mean to be laughing off the fox news comment. quite the opposite.
i meant to be saying that any interpretation of that gesture, other than affectionate and congratulatory, should probably be attributed to the motives of the commentator.
i think i said pretty much this, in the part of my post you didn't quote: "it's hard to see how anyone could construe it otherwise than warm and congratulatory--absent a commentator's ulterior motives. but i suspect i'm just saying the obvious."
wuyizidi wrote: "So it's not really about people being stupid and ignorant. It's something deeper. It's about how human beings manifest fear. Intellectual capacity wise most people are just fine. Here a lot of people believe something that is not true because deep down they have a need for that belief."
i'd basically agree with this. it's fear-based. people believe, or say they believe, such things...because they are afraid on some level. people mask fear through anger, rejection, prejudice, etc., etc.
imo, much of the pain of the world comes from our lack of understanding that underneath various "racial and cultural differences" we as human beings are much the same. i think the pain of a mother losing her child to war is much the same, regardless of "which side she's on."
and of course, sometimes people who fear, inspire fear in others and manipulate them through that. they do this for any number of reasons, ranging from "protecting themselves", to seeking money or power.
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