Comments on: So Much for Cultural Relativism http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SuperMike http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8472 SuperMike Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:55:15 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8472 <p>I'm curious about some things that I really haven't seen addressed:<br /> 1. Did the kids knowingly set this woman up? If she really violated some deeply entrenched cultural norm, presumably the kids would have known about it. Possibly they knew it was naughty, but didn't think it'd get out (or realize it had the potential to cause a lynching) Maybe they did know and didn't care. Let this be a lesson to middle-aged white ladies that think they're going to "help" in the Sudan.<br /> 2. Is the outsize outrage primarily religious(doubtful), or is it more driven by racism or nationalism?</p> <p>It sounds like she's out of there, finally. She should have named the bear "Kitchener", I guess.</p> I’m curious about some things that I really haven’t seen addressed:
1. Did the kids knowingly set this woman up? If she really violated some deeply entrenched cultural norm, presumably the kids would have known about it. Possibly they knew it was naughty, but didn’t think it’d get out (or realize it had the potential to cause a lynching) Maybe they did know and didn’t care. Let this be a lesson to middle-aged white ladies that think they’re going to “help” in the Sudan.
2. Is the outsize outrage primarily religious(doubtful), or is it more driven by racism or nationalism?

It sounds like she’s out of there, finally. She should have named the bear “Kitchener”, I guess.

]]> By: Andy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8471 Andy Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:50:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8471 <blockquote>We live in a very mixed up world were some acts are considered atrocities when committed by one group but are not considered to be atrocities when committed by another.</blockquote> <p>Indeed!</p>

We live in a very mixed up world were some acts are considered atrocities when committed by one group but are not considered to be atrocities when committed by another.

Indeed!

]]> By: Mark http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8470 Mark Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:32:35 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8470 <p>I liked James Taranto's remarks about this issue. He wrote </p> <p>"Meanwhile, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have had the following to say about Gibbons's plight: .</p> <p>It's a statement that is all the more powerful for its brevity."</p> <p>We live in a very mixed up world were some acts are considered atrocities when committed by one group but are not considered to be atrocities when committed by another.<br /> </p> I liked James Taranto’s remarks about this issue. He wrote

“Meanwhile, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have had the following to say about Gibbons’s plight: .

It’s a statement that is all the more powerful for its brevity.”

We live in a very mixed up world were some acts are considered atrocities when committed by one group but are not considered to be atrocities when committed by another.

]]> By: Al Fin http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8469 Al Fin Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:15:33 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8469 <p>We have a word for people who are prone to indulging in mob violence. Stupid.</p> <p>Islam was devised for populations with a mean IQ of 80 to 85. Islam was adopted by such a population and spread violently by such a population across broad swaths of Asia and Africa--even a small part of Europe.</p> <p>Islam thrives in low-IQ populations, so that laughing at mullahs and fanatical mosque-goers by "sophisticated" westerners is unlikely to have an impact on future mosque-inflamed behaviours.</p> We have a word for people who are prone to indulging in mob violence. Stupid.

Islam was devised for populations with a mean IQ of 80 to 85. Islam was adopted by such a population and spread violently by such a population across broad swaths of Asia and Africa–even a small part of Europe.

Islam thrives in low-IQ populations, so that laughing at mullahs and fanatical mosque-goers by “sophisticated” westerners is unlikely to have an impact on future mosque-inflamed behaviours.

]]> By: TC http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8468 TC Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:55:53 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8468 <p>When in Rome?</p> <p>The only real problem with the Religion of Peace is that they have no definition of PEACE!</p> <p>Just a stumbling block I'm sure, similar to the one Clinton had about the meaning of IS!</p> When in Rome?

The only real problem with the Religion of Peace is that they have no definition of PEACE!

Just a stumbling block I’m sure, similar to the one Clinton had about the meaning of IS!

]]> By: Xmas http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8467 Xmas Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:47:04 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8467 <p>Life imitates Monty Python perhaps?</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeq2Utm0nU</p> Life imitates Monty Python perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeq2Utm0nU

]]> By: Regis http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8466 Regis Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:02:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8466 <p>Gah! I thought my tags would work. :( Oh well, just ignore them.</p> Gah! I thought my tags would work. :( Oh well, just ignore them.

]]> By: Regis http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8465 Regis Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:39 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8465 <p>[I]Some cultures just suck. Period.[/I]</p> <p>Indeed. </p> <p>But on a scale of 1-10 of "Negative aspects of Islamic culture" this rates at most a 5. It doesn't even come close to capital punishment for homosexuality and adultery, "Honor" Killings, female genital mutilation, or punishment for the victim of a rape. Those things are absolutely revolting.</p> [I]Some cultures just suck. Period.[/I]

Indeed.

But on a scale of 1-10 of “Negative aspects of Islamic culture” this rates at most a 5. It doesn’t even come close to capital punishment for homosexuality and adultery, “Honor” Killings, female genital mutilation, or punishment for the victim of a rape. Those things are absolutely revolting.

]]> By: Jim Collins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html/comment-page-1#comment-8464 Jim Collins Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:54:03 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/11/so-much-for-cul.html#comment-8464 <p>Aw! Come on! It's Islam, you know the "religion of peace". I want to see CAIR come out with a statement against this.</p> Aw! Come on! It’s Islam, you know the “religion of peace”. I want to see CAIR come out with a statement against this.

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