tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post8229721432416561089..comments2024-02-02T00:21:02.687+13:00Comments on stargazer: US embassy deathsstargazerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00430290445762377335noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-29970221994406695692012-09-22T16:07:37.989+12:002012-09-22T16:07:37.989+12:00thanx for your comment lovette.
i guess the only ...thanx for your comment lovette.<br /><br />i guess the only thing i'd say is that protesting outside the saudi embassy would have been a better option than bombing most of afghanistan and a lot of northern pakistan. and then going on to bomb iraq. i can think of solutions that would have lead to a lot less destruction and death.<br /><br />i think it's useful for people to be able to express their anger, and a protest (that doesn't involve killing innocent people) is one way for that anger to be expressed. i think targetting of the US embassy is much more than about the film itself. there's a lot of anger about US foreign policy and the effect it's having on the lives (& deaths) of people, and that's why protest is directed towards american emabssies. sucks for the staff though.stargazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00430290445762377335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-44912595849885258992012-09-22T14:39:34.654+12:002012-09-22T14:39:34.654+12:00" someone produces something stupid and offen..." someone produces something stupid and offensive, then fine, gather a group of people and protest about how stupid and offensive that thing was. make your point, express yourself. don't have a problem with burning flags either, mostly because i don't attach a whole lot of emotional symbolism or meaning to flags. they're just a piece of cloth after all."<br /><br />Fair enough, but I wonder if the US embassy is the correct place to direct this protest. As far as I can tell the US government's involvement with this film was absolutely zero.<br /><br />I suppose you could argue that because it was made by US citizens the embassy is the best way to protest, but protesting outside the Saudi embassy because you dont like Bin Laden doesnt strike me as particularly useful.LOVETTEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-35732872240632646512012-09-17T21:50:40.362+12:002012-09-17T21:50:40.362+12:00well brett, i can't believe you proved my poin...well brett, i can't believe you proved my point so clearly. i haven't called you any names by the way, just made a [very valid] judgement on the nature of your comments.<br /><br /><i>it sickens you that someone may dare give sympathy to anyone that doesn't have your ideology</i><br /><br />you say this on a post where i have shown sympathy to people who may indeed not follow my "ideology" - in fact it's highly likely they don't? i can't even understand why you'd bother making a comment like that.<br /><br /><i>where 90% of it, was talking about your disappointment about the US response</i><br /><br />um really? i wrote 1 line in a long post about responses from US politicians, and you call that 90%? again, i'm really struggling to find any kind of logic to your comments, nor any relationship to any actual facts.<br /><br /><i>Now you have done a post on police raids in Australia, (I wonder why you decided to write that piece?)</i><br /><br />and this is it. this is exactly what i was talking about in my previous comments. those raids were traumatic, especially for the children who had to be a part of the whole thing. but could you be bothered to express even one word of concern for them? of course not. because they don't matter to you. because they aren't like you, you don't care about them. and in this post i wrote about the conditions in libya (in relation to nz media reporting - nothing to do with the US response, nor to say "they sort of deserve if"), and do you have the slightest bit of sympathy for the lives of ordinary libyan people? do you care that they are starving and living in violence? you don't care the slightest bit, you write that whole bit of as an attempt to blame the american ambassador for his own death. it's exactly what i mean when i say that your comments contain callous cruelty, a total indifference to suffering of people who aren't like you.<br /><br />what is so tragic about this is the prevalence of views like yourselves, the total lack of empathy which makes it so much easier to go to war, to bomb out another country, to perpetrate violence on a mass scale.<br /><br />and then the flounce:<br /><br /><i>I am done here.</i><br /><br />i'm profundly thankful. i'm really not interested in having this kind of heartlessenss displayed on my blog.stargazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00430290445762377335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-35412699640198704342012-09-17T10:58:54.074+12:002012-09-17T10:58:54.074+12:00I post here because I am fascinated by media/blogg...I post here because I am fascinated by media/bloggers who are disingenuous and hypocritical and have to revert to name calling. Bloggers such as your self have a delusion of grandeur and a sense of entitlement.<br /><br />If you were right wing you would work for Faux News. You like to twist any story into your world view and it sickens you that someone may dare give sympathy to anyone that doesn't have your ideology. I would go as far to say that your kinda racist.<br /><br />Your past two posts have proven my point. The one about us embassy deaths, where 90% of it, was talking about your disappointment about the US response, and the youtube video itself.<br /><br />Your last paragraph seemed like an afterthought.<br /><br />Now you have done a post on police raids in Australia, (I wonder why you decided to write that piece?)<br /><br />Kinda be nice if there is a attack on someone, you do a post with sympathy, and not your posts that are basically saying "well they sort of deserve it"<br /><br />I am done here.Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.conoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-27965701366213520212012-09-16T22:44:26.670+12:002012-09-16T22:44:26.670+12:00brett, i don't understand why you feel the nee...brett, i don't understand why you feel the need to leave insulting comments on my blog. pretending to disguise it as a compliment is pretty shallow. you know, i have never once seen you comment with sympathy on my blog about the suffering of people who aren't white, while at the same time taking great pains to make excuses for racist behaviour and baldly stating that racism doesn't even exist. the callous cruelty in so many of your comments really does astound me.<br /><br />on a more general note (ie not directed to brett), <a href="http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/omid-safi/12-essential-points-about-the-offensive-film-on-the-prophet-muhammad-and-th" rel="nofollow">this</a> is worth reading on the subject at hand.stargazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00430290445762377335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515713317068251331.post-28610734129122265502012-09-14T10:55:56.675+12:002012-09-14T10:55:56.675+12:00The last paragraph of this post was good.The last paragraph of this post was good.Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.conoreply@blogger.com