Hijacking a comment on another thread on here
Question: Does anyone on here have an opinion on NPR's canning of Juan Williams? Personally, I think it's a lesson in political correctness run amok. William's comments (in context) do not warrant firing. This wouldn't be so bad, if NPR weren't taking my hard earned tax $$ everyday just to stay on-air. If they want to play the game, let them do like MSNBC, CBS & the rest and pay their own way.
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Here is my take: I think it is really bad political correctness. I agree with the above, in context, it wasnt that bad of a thing. I just wondered though, what would have happened if he had made critical remarks about Christians. That seems to be pretty well ok.
Muslims are not a race of people. They are a religion, like christianity, judiasm, hindus .. .pagans, whatever.
I dont even like the idea of being politically correct.
Our culture is much too into this Not offending anyone mindset.
There was a surpreme court ruling once on a different topic, where the court said you do not have a constitutional right to not be offended.
If we do live in a multicultural society, there is bound to be some things you dont agree with .. and some things that are offensive. You cant have it both ways. Diversity means ... different. And Tolerance should mean accepting those that are different .. Tolerance does not mean you have a right to not be offended.
One point though. NPR does not get tax money. It lives off donations from private people.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/National_Public_Radio#Funding
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NPR does get taxpayer $$. (if you believe wiki) You can find other sources, i feel sure.
Juan Williams is not considered a "conservative" by anyones view. This will come back to bite NPR. It's a fear tactic. I predict it will backfire on them. Big time.
It's like they were waiting for an excuse to fire him. Just needed a reason. I've never liked Williams' opinions very much, but on this one...NPR got it dead wrong.
Anyone who says they DON'T get nervous when they see muslims in full muslim gear on their flight is lying. Anyone who says they don't get nervous when they are in an inner city and see a large group of young black, hispanic, white or Asian males in gang colors coming toward them is lying. Some things are just facts of life. If these types of encounters DON'T rasie your awareness level and give you a little boost of adrenalin, then you are a moron who has their head in the clouds instead of on their surroundings where it should be. It's called situational awareness. Learn it. Live it.
ReplyDeleteI visited with a younger person this week who I had once asked if they had voted in the last election! Their response then was that they weren't really interested and didn't care who won! Because they didn't think it would change anything in Government or in their lives!
ReplyDeleteBut, to my surprise they told me they had registered to vote!
Why, because they were worried about the direction of the country and their and their kids future! (The massive debt and fear of increased taxes that would certainly burden their generations!)
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I didn't even ask them how they intended to vote! (So, I don't know!)
Too bad we can't just elect people of both parties who will share their same concern!
From Yahoo's article on Juan Williams:
ReplyDeleteBernie Goldberg, a Fox News contributor and author of several books on what he describes as liberal media bias, offered his take Thursday morning in an email to The Upshot.
"So Juan Williams is fired for saying something the liberals at NPR find controversial?" Goldberg said. "One more piece of evidence that liberals have forgotten how to be liberal."
Goldberg continued: "These are the kind of people who brag about how open-minded they are -- as long as you agree with them. And here's the dirty little secret: lots and lots of liberals feel the same way Juan does when they get on an airplane. And a lot of those liberals work at NPR. Juan's 'crime' was saying it out loud."
Weekly Standard Editor and Fox contributor Bill Kristol also had some choice words for NPR, which he dubbed "National Politically-correct Radio." Kristol concluded a post about the firing by saying: "NPR -- unfair, unbalanced ... and afraid."
Kristol has it right!
From an article on Yahoo this A.M.:
ReplyDeleteKING, N.C. – The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts.
The relatively obscure emblem has become omnipresent because of one place it can't appear: flying above a war memorial in a public park.
The city council decided last month to remove the flag from above the monument in Central Park after a resident complained, and after city leaders got letters from the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State urging them to remove it.
That decision incensed veterans groups, churches and others in King, a city of about 6,000 people 15 miles north of Winston-Salem. Ray Martini, 63, an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, launched a round-the-clock vigil to guard a replica Christian flag hanging on a wooden pole in front of the war memorial.
JJ,
I think the lines are being drawn in our Society and probably across the World!
The BIGGEST QUESTION thats being asked/answered:
Wo do you serve?
OOOPS! Who do you serve?
ReplyDeleteCould be. But, there really isnt a Christian flag. I think even having one would be unbiblical.
ReplyDeleteChrist alone, sort of thing.
But, there does seem to be more of a need to speak out for the things of God.
Just be sure its biblical.
But, there really isnt a Christian flag. I think even having one would be unbiblical.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia:
Since the Christian Flag was inspired by the flag of the United States, it takes its colors and overall design from the American flag.
The flag's most conspicuous symbol is the Christian cross, the most universal symbol for Christianity. The red color is intended to represent the blood of Jesus as described in the story of his crucifixion. Christians believe that Jesus' death and resurrection is the means God uses to save believers from their sins. The cross and blood have been used since earliest Christianity to symbolize salvation through Jesus; in the words of the Apostle Paul, "Through [Jesus] God reconciles himself to all things... making peace by the blood of the cross" (Colossians 1:20).
The white field draws on symbolism throughout the Bible equating white clothes with purity and forgiveness. People who have been "washed white as snow" in the Bible have been cleansed from their sins (Isaiah 1:18). In conventional vexillology a white flag is linked to surrender, a reference to the Biblical description Jesus' non-violence and surrender to God's will.
The blue square represents faithfulness, truth, and sincerity[1].
Since the flag is not tied to any specific religious denomination or church institution, it signifies the unity of all followers of Jesus Christ within the Kingdom of God despite historical, cultural, and dogmatic differences. Its simplicity makes it easily copied by any community of Christians.
The canton of this flag transgresses one of the traditional rules of flag design, which states that two colors (other than white or yellow) have to be separated by a metal (silver = white, or gold = yellow). The white field would also be advised against in conventional vexillology as it is easily mistaken for the white flag of surrender.
Don't argue with JJ about religion, because he (thinks he) knows it all. He walked with Jesus dontchaknow.
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