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Offline Politics4us

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Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« on: November 17, 2015, 01:52:58 pm »
http://nypost.com/2015/11/16/paris-doesnt-need-your-hashtag-heroics/

Good column by Lowry. I usually don't agree with him, but it's ridiculous that people have feel good hashtags, but don't connect the attacks to Islam.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2015, 02:09:35 pm »

Not for nothing, but....

Is that a Christian cross I see in the middle of the Eiffel Tower? How risqué! But, isn't that a taunt? Won't that just incite Islamic ire? Deep down inside, shouldn't we be more sensitive to the sensibilities of Islamic terrorists?
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2015, 02:26:42 pm »
My recent post on FB: "When we get done posting pictures of the French flag and observing minutes of silence can we just go kill a bunch of Muslim terrorists?"
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2015, 02:33:57 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on November 17, 2015, 02:26:42 pm
My recent post on FB: "When we get done posting pictures of the French flag and observing minutes of silence can we just go kill a bunch of Muslim terrorists?"

Thumbs up, Bigun, thumbs up.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2015, 03:09:24 pm »
"You know what I liked about George Bush?  He'd get up in the morning, scratch his balls and say, "let's kill some terrorists." - Dennis Miller
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2015, 03:22:04 pm »
Slacktivism. People post something on FB, or change the colors on their avatar and they feel happy, content that they did something.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2015, 10:05:21 pm »
Quote from: Relic on November 17, 2015, 03:22:04 pm
Slacktivism. People post something on FB, or change the colors on their avatar and they feel happy, content that they did something.
Hence why I have not posted anything on my social media accounts about this. I would rather do nothing than offer phony, empty gestures that only give the appearance of caring.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2015, 10:53:05 pm »
One thing is missing from this otherwise interesting article; namely, what color ribbon am I supposed to be wearing?
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2015, 12:24:45 am »
I agree wholeheartedly. Good comments, all.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2015, 12:44:37 am »
I have a niece who wrote a cute little poem on FB equating the West's Imperialism to Islamic "extremism".  That is how she wrote it. 

Note: Imperialism v "extremism"

Of course the academics and liberals have lauded her composition. 

It is hopeless.
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Re: Rich Lowry "Paris doesn't need your hashtag 'heroics'"
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2015, 01:53:32 am »
The proper response to the Paris attacks should not be this:


It should be this:
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