Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (234283)	6/26/2007 5:29:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Wreakage of language. Prejudice means prejudging. Dislike is something else. I dislike nigga-rap. It's not prejudice. I have heard it. It's dislike. Prejudging somebody is prejudice. Saying Moslems are violent is not. Violence is part of their ideology and philosophical foundations and they will kill anyone who says the Koran is NOT correct in that ideology. Which of course proves the point. Saying a particular "Moslem" is violent without knowing would be prejudice. But of course, they aren't a Moslem if they don't subscribe to the tenets of Islam as propounded in the Koran. So they would then be an apostate worthy of a good stoning to death or at least a flogging to put them back on track. I know languages are "living", as is the USA constitution according to some legal advocates who dislike the current constitution. But "language is living" has come to be a weak excuse for reduction of communication to chimpoid grunts full of feeling but little intelligent content. Mqurice