Look closer Jerryh.....the swastika is in the center of the iron cross...you dont have to listen to the whole exchange;-)...just check around 15 seconds or so:lol:
Ah! But it is so much fun watching an obvious racist point fingers at others for being racist. He fails to see the three fingers pointing back at himself.
I guess I can't see the fun in it anymore because it's "people" like him/her who caused students to be shot down at Kent State, over 50,000 young Americans to be killed fighting a mythological enemy called communism in Vietnam, the lynchings of fellow Americans in the South because they were and are still perceived as "unequal" and "different", little children killed deliberately by a bomb while at church, Americans to die of drowning & deliberate witholding of food, water & medical aid by racist fellow Americans in New Orleans for similar racist reasons; yes, exactly the same brain washed fanaticism & ignorance that s/he displays in these hate riddled fanatical posts as the illiterate, ignorant, brainwashed fanatics who deliberately flew four civilian planes into American targets on 9/11. S/he & his/her ilk have exactly the same capacity for commiting such an act against what they see in their delusions as "the enemy", s/he says so in every racist, bigotted, illiterate, brain washed word they put on this forum. Live long enough & you stop seeing the humour but are very aware of the potential for such things and too often their potential for harm is recognized too late.
I agree with you but we can't shut them up otherwise we put our own freedoms in jeopardy. Usually ridicule works but Jack's self righteous bigotry is so thick it cannot be penetrated.I guess I can't see the fun in it anymore because it's "people" like him/her who caused students to be shot down at Kent State, over 50,000 young Americans to be killed fighting a mythological enemy called communism in Vietnam, the lynchings of fellow Americans in the South because they were and are still perceived as "unequal" and "different", little children killed deliberately by a bomb while at church, Americans to die of drowning & deliberate witholding of food, water & medical aid by racist fellow Americans in New Orleans for similar racist reasons; yes, exactly the same brain washed fanaticism & ignorance that s/he displays in these hate riddled fanatical posts as the illiterate, ignorant, brainwashed fanatics who deliberately flew four civilian planes into American targets on 9/11. S/he & his/her ilk have exactly the same capacity for commiting such an act against what they see in their delusions as "the enemy", s/he says so in every racist, bigotted, illiterate, brain washed word they put on this forum. Live long enough & you stop seeing the humour but are very aware of the potential for such things and too often their potential for harm is recognized too late.
I guess I can't see the fun in it anymore because it's "people" like him/her who caused students to be shot down at Kent State, over 50,000 young Americans to be killed fighting a mythological enemy called communism in Vietnam, the lynchings of fellow Americans in the South because they were and are still perceived as "unequal" and "different", little children killed deliberately by a bomb while at church, Americans to die of drowning & deliberate witholding of food, water & medical aid by racist fellow Americans in New Orleans for similar racist reasons; yes, exactly the same brain washed fanaticism & ignorance that s/he displays in these hate riddled fanatical posts as the illiterate, ignorant, brainwashed fanatics who deliberately flew four civilian planes into American targets on 9/11. S/he & his/her ilk have exactly the same capacity for commiting such an act against what they see in their delusions as "the enemy", s/he says so in every racist, bigotted, illiterate, brain washed word they put on this forum. Live long enough & you stop seeing the humour but are very aware of the potential for such things and too often their potential for harm is recognized too late.
It's not far from happening again unless people start saying no to it.Yes, I understand that anger. I have had two heart attacks so I have learned to keep a button on it. If I can keep a cool head, I'll rail against the bigots, but if I can't, I have to pass it by. The injustice and oppression is everywhere. On must chose the battles to be fought. Right now the injustice against our local (extinct) aboriginal people keeps me busy. As the native people say, you world (sphere of influence) is as far as you can walk in a day. There is more than plenty in your personal world to keep you busy. Outside of that you have very little influence. Use your time and energy wisely.Thanks for the concern Cliffy. :smile: Yup, these things have always made me angry and also sad. I was born with people's rights in my gene's I guess. My Welsh maternal grandmother was a suffragette & also joined the lines when the English government ordered mounted military to ride into the lines of striking miners & their families and mow them down in 1926. (Margaret Thatcher did the same when her "trickle down" faux economics failed so dismally & people were jobless & desperate & the miners went on strike again, knowing what was coming.) Her husband, my grandfather, was Chief Constable of the town who had to stand by obeying orders watching with tears pouring down his face. Lots of black families lived in Wales, still do, they came for the jobs a long time ago - no-one thought of them as different. All I know is I've watched hate & racism & the police & military misused to fight the wrong people very often because racists, bigots & power & money hungry people manipulated people with fear & used the ignorant as a front. From Britain to Canada to the US I've watched it. Remember Oka? Ipperwash? The military against the First Nations - people died. Now the US is again back almost to the fifties in the openly divisive, bigotted, manipulative dishonest, deceitful fear-mongering of some elected politicians, where's that Silent Majority of yesteryears that finally woke up & said NO! ENOUGH! The anarchy of Usenet would let me say what I'd like to say to this illiterate, unthinking mouthpiece but they've found the forums now. I believe in freedom of speech too, but at some point a stand has to be taken to protect those who cannot protect themselves and to say this must stop.
You'll hear the voice of the pain of the South in a fifties song sung by Nina Simone called "Strange Fruit". Strange Fruit indeed.
I'll stay away, take a break, if I get too angry.
