tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post6257884460708894744..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Bachmann fibs about America's foundingRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-63239241693297826272011-02-19T01:39:59.043-08:002011-02-19T01:39:59.043-08:00The only time conservatives like Bachmann mention ...The only time conservatives like Bachmann mention racism is to claim liberals are being "politically correct." In other words, they don't think it's an issue anymore.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-7885254971412644642011-01-28T14:17:46.656-08:002011-01-28T14:17:46.656-08:00OK, is it just me or have we entered an alternate ...OK, is it just me or have we entered an alternate reality? <br /><br />Since Bachmann says "The Founding Fathers freed their slaves as a justification that they 'worked tirelessly to end slavery' it might carry a little more validation if they never owned slaves or raped them and had kids with them to begin with. Don't cha think? <br /><br />I mean that is like a bank robber freed his hostages so he is not guilty of robbing the bank, no? <br /><br />For Christ sakes people, I am not proud of these facts either but that is no excuse to rewrite history or sweep it under the rug! <br /><br />The Founding Fathers were not Christ, they were men that make huge “man made” mistakes (they were not infallible or Incapable of erring), why is it that some want to rewrite history and say that their Sh*t does not stink, please grow up.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-62403422888845397742011-01-26T10:20:38.198-08:002011-01-26T10:20:38.198-08:00I'm saying that political correctness permeate...I'm saying that political correctness permeates our culture. It doesn't matter that it's wrong.<br /><br />Plus, Tea Partiers in general have a children's cartoon view of the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-68584420515991731312011-01-26T07:48:09.014-08:002011-01-26T07:48:09.014-08:00I find this person (Bachmann) incredibly offensive...I find this person (Bachmann) incredibly offensive. <br /><br />Especially when America's slave trade beginning with Columbus opened and expanded the entire world's economic picture and more than that, America's slave trade history is considered by most historians as the benchmark that changed the world.<br /><br />It is true that slavery existed in Africa and the Americas between native peoples, but not on the same scale nor was it an international industry perfected compared to the colonies.<br /><br />Some of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners themselves.<br /><br />If Bachmann wants to talk about diversity. She needs to talk about racism and if one talks about racism, it still reigns in many pockets of government, industry and the public arena in general.<br /><br />Americans, conservatives mostly, seem to have history confined to the 1872 John Gast painting, "American Progress" more popularly penned as "manifest destiny" with the natives fleeing and being replaced by telegraph, but to be politically and historically correct, it was the democrats of that era that used this term for the Polk administration in pushing expansionism.Burtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-90724110007225701442011-01-26T07:18:56.378-08:002011-01-26T07:18:56.378-08:00Yes "anonymous" makes a good point with ...Yes "anonymous" makes a good point with animation, but we are dealing with legislators that pass laws in the supposedly most powerful and "greatest" nation on earth?<br /><br />It is easy to dismiss the conservative's lack of intellect and grasp of reality in our everyday lives, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.<br /><br />Didn't we learn anything from the last president whom stumbled through speeches, mispronounced world leaders and tried to exit stages through locked doors?<br /><br />Or is it that as long as our leadership are Christians they are allowed to be as dumb as a doorknob?<br /><br />I thought humans, like all living things and the rest of the planet, evolved forwards, not backwards.Burtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-6507155830856100512011-01-25T14:01:36.255-08:002011-01-25T14:01:36.255-08:00The diversity thing tends to occur when you learn ...The diversity thing tends to occur when you learn history from children's cartoons. <i>Captain Planet</i> actually had a fully integrated U.S. Army raiding on the Nazis. (Ma-Ti punches out Hitler, though, which is cool.) <i>Power Rangers</i> was more blatant, with 19th-century people thinking nothing of the rangers' identical ancestors hanging out together. (One ranger was black, one was Asian, and one was an Indian. Not only that, but the last one was dating the Pink Ranger's ancestor. Which is kinda gross, when you think about it.) You can find other examples. And where ethnic diversity doesn't exist, such as in anime, it's very common for dubbers to create it. (Originally, the <i>Sailor Moon</i> dub was supposed to have spliced-in live action footage with a black girl and a girl in a wheelchair. Also, once again, <i>Power Rangers</i>.)<br /><br />This is related to the tendency for human diversity to be a strength against invading aliens in SF series, and serves as a sort of lampshade there for the tendency for all aliens from one species to have a similar temperament.<br /><br />Moral: Don't learn history from kids' TV time travel episodes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com