May 20 2004
A Softer World
Came across this site today on my travels. Its really great.
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May 20 2004
Shaking my head in disbelief?
Sometimes I really have to wonder about people. Not just at what goes on in reality TV shows (Paradise Hotel anyone), but in a much more serious way.
Michael Savage (never heard of him, but according to Salon he has around 6 million listeners in the US), has “taken to calling Arabs “non-humans” and has called for the U.S. to kill “thousands” of Iraqi prisoners and nuke a random Arab capital”. Now even if that is merely shock-jock attention seeking behaviour it is still scary.
People are people, there is no such thing as a non-human, or a completely evil individual. Unless of course that is a made up character on TV or in a book. People have motivations and reasons for why they act they way they do. And yes acts themselves can be evil and despicable but to call a person evil is to dismiss them as “other” and what is other doesn’t have to be understood or thought about.
Current track: Daddy is a good man by Michael J Sheehy
Tags: Iraq, Michael Savage, people, racistRelated posts
May 20 2004
Minister McDowell
has a speech on the release of those responsible for the death of Garda Jerry McCabe (apols if it is spelt with a G, have seen both versions). The full text is up on politics.ie
He makes a lot of good points (bloody FFers shouldn’t be allowed make sense), but I still don’t like the fact that FF only seem harsh of SR when election time roles around.
Make up your minds boys. Then again this is FF I’m talking about…
Current track: Your Ever Changing Moods by Summer At Shatter Creek
Tags: Fianna Fáil, GardaÃ, IRA, Irish politics, Jerry McCabe, Michael McDowell, Sinn Féin