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Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester"
Hugh Pickens writes "Time's editor Rick Stengel announced on The Today Show that 'The Protester' is Time Magazine's Person of the Year: From the Arab Spring to Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to Moscow. 'For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally, for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century.' The initial gut reaction on Twitter seems to be one of derision, as Time has gone with a faceless human mass instead of picking a single person like Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi who Time mentions in the story and is widely acknowledged as the person who set off the 'Arab Spring.' In 2006, Time chose "You" with a mirrored cover to much disappointment, picked the personal computer as 'Machine of the Year' and Earth as 'Planet of the Year,' proving 'that it should probably just be "Story of the Year" if they aren't going to acknowledge an actual person,' writes Dashiell Bennett. 'By not picking any one individual, they've basically chosen no one.'"
Who make first post
Or are not all protesters created equal?
Maybe the important thing is that a idea is the driver for change, no just an individual.
It is much harder for the daily news media to sell an idea than it is sell an individual being the center of everything.
'By not picking any one individual, they've basically chosen no one.'
Aside from the obvious one percent that didn't protest, there's another element of society that I happen to belong to. I'm not the 1% but I have a job. As such I stood by with at most sympathy and some odd feelings of survivor's guilt as I saw protests unfold in cities around my country. Yet I still had deadlines to make at work. So I'm not Time's Person of the Year but the protesters are because I sat here and sipped Lapsang Souchong tea while they made headlines. And that isn't no one, I think that's actually a very select group of people that were there, were non-violent and had a message. Other people that used the opportunities to loot or arson probably aren't proud enough to say it but Time Magazine has definitely selected a small set of people from around the world to be the Person of the Year. And I disagree that it was a bad choice and that it somehow represents 'no one.'
Sort of off-topic but every time I hear about protesting, this video pops into my head. I will opine that in this video you will see what aspects you want to see about protesting. But I think that it encapsulates a lot about protests -- even from the comparatively non-violent protests of G20 last year in Toronto. From the pacifying elements of society to the occasional brutality involved from either side, this video is oddly satisfying for me.
My work here is dung.
Or are not all attention spans created equal?
When they chose the president, a famous person, non-entity, etc, it's just lame. Last year was Mark Zuckerburg. That was a possible pick since Facebook has changes much of what we do online.
But when they chose "you" and "the protestor", I feel like they just had a dart board and just saw what stuck.
Story of the Year is probably a much accurate title, but won't sell as many mags or get as many people talking about it.
We don't live in Shouldland.
omg, 1st pick!!
I am going to protest. Big time. Occupy Time Mag. yeah, yeah.
Now where do I collect the brownie points for being the person of the year?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"The protester" must be the one person left in our local "occupy" demonstration. He looks cold.
Have you read my blog lately?
I am against this, but don't know how to show it.
or maybe Marching Band Leader
Okay guys, I'm here. Thanks a lot-- in this recognition, my spirit is truly embiggened.
... they could have picked Steve Jobs.
Oh come on, you know you were thinking it!
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Thank God It's Not Steve Jobs.
And although the Occupy people are not as hardcore as the Arab Spring guys, it's good that they didn't restrict it to one movement or country since there seems to be new protests in Russia and China...
The Tea Party has been co-opted into Fox News' astroturfing arm.
No more than the Occupy movement has been co-opted by the Democratic party and its operatives. For example union support and funding leading to a morphing of banning donation by organization to banning donations by corporations. Unions are no more people than corporations. Union members are people, just like corporate employees. Union and corporate interests should be represented through their members and employees, not through the union leadership and corporate CEOs with the political connections and big checkbooks.
Plus there is the whole problem of the real Occupy movement voice being crowded out by the fringe far left, the campers, much as the real Tea Party voice was drowned out by the fringe far right. The real voices just are not as interesting to TV as the fringe.
Who the heck is Dashiell Bennett and why should I care what he/she thinks about Time's choice of "Person of The Year"??
ok... quick check on Twitter ... he is a "blogger" with 999 twitter followers ... ok.
Are they seriously lumping together the Occupy protesters with the rest of the protesters around the world laying their lives on the line to overthrow ruthless dictators? Really!?
I'd agree with you except for the part about having a message.
What I garnered from the more cognizant participants was they wanted one thing: economic justice.
I still can't figure out what they were protesting other than the fact that some people have a shitload more money than other people. As for those rich people getting their money in ethically challenged ways...
Yeah, so I think the real upsetting aspect of "some people have a shitload more money than other people" is how that came to be. I mean, just watching the Daily Show I see it all the time like my hard working father is now jobless and has to drive across three states to work and lives out of an RV away from his wife and home while the fed hands out $13 billion in just free cash to banks? Are you serious? That's not economic justice! Our government bought up tons of shitty toxic assets from dumbshit investors to 'save' them yet no one tried to 'save' the jobs of the working class by just dumping billions of dollars into the rest of America. And when are those investments sold back to the original investors who made the stupid mistake to buy them? When do those people that made imprudent investment decisions get their comeuppance? Or is it only people that just tried to hold on to their jobs that have to pay for that fuck up?
well that's not particularly new, nor is it ever going to change.
You know I think people are okay when you can present them some convincing argument why the 1% deserve the Lion's share of the wealth. But when you paint them as bitching hippies who don't know what they want, you are really part of the problem. I don't want corporations to have more rights than individuals. Reinstate the Glass-Stegall Act to regulate speculation and stop corporations from internationally shifting funds in order to avoid paying the same damn income taxes I pay!
To just say "Aw, the 1% are just harder workers than you and deserve these rewards" is more ignorant than the protesters who don't know what they want.
My work here is dung.
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The way Time is going, next year they'll name "The Subscriber."
Michael C. Hollinger
I protest this appointment! If published, I will not serve!
Why does it matter? Person of the year is about the "person" who had the biggest impact, not necessarilly in a positive way. At the risk of Godwining this thread, Hitler was Time Man of the Year.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Slashvertizing for Time Mag now? Really why is here?
Anyway it should have been Dennis Ritchie
Deluded much?
No, just misinformed. While Occupy may have been co-opted by the Democratic Party, ACORN and related groups who are desperate for a tea party organization of their own, Occupy is a creation of the Canadian media organization Adbusters who is related to the former.
... Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements."
"The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment[1] organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age." Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism,[3] it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000[4] devoted to challenging consumerism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters
Jeeze, was being Person of the Year once already just not good enough?
Next thing you know, everyone's going to be demanding Person of the Century and then cats will live with dogs and the whole system will collapse!
They also made the PC or maybe it was the computer in general person of the year back in the 80's or 90's. Next up a terrorist is person of the year.
The second they backed down from choosing OBL.
...reminds me of this.
That's nothing. Look what Stalin did. He won the it twice. Hitler won in 1938.
The funny thing is, the Time "Person of the Year" has been pretty stupid ever since they changed it from "Man of the Year" to "Person of the Year." To me, that represented when they decided to prioritize political correctness over honesty (1999). We had GWB in 2000 (the year he spent mostly on vacation), Rudy Giuliani in 2001 (the year Osama bin Laden was the clear 'winner'), 'The Whistleblowers' in 2002 (inciting this trend of non-persons - it had been done in the past but sparingly), 'The American Soldier' in 2003, GWB again in 2004, 'The Good Samaritans' in 2005, 'You' in 2006 (probably the worst choice ever), Putin in 2007, Obama in 2008, Bernanke in 2009 (first justifiable choice of the decade - the last year of it), Zuckerberg last year (Julian Assange clear 'winner'), and now this protestor bullshit.
Basically, Time Person of a Year is a joke.
Also, the chart you cite is full of inaccuracies, bias, and lies.
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Well person of the year is about as useful as the nobel peace prize. Both of which have been handing once good to prestigious awards to idiots, fools, tinpot dictators, and murderous tyrants with the blood of millions on their hands.
Om, nomnomnom...
With so many "of the Year" awards, I demand they award a Year of the Year award. Personally, I think 2011 is a shoe-in.
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Seems like one of the largest unions, that of the Police, are far from siding with OWS;
The Police union doesn't give operational orders to the police, the elected politicians do. And anything that protects police jobs, or possibly increases the number of police jobs, will not be opposed by the union leadership.
Of course, the whole point, of being anti-corporate and anti-corruption of Capitalism, ...
Actually Occupy is the creation of a media organization that is anti-capitalism and anti-consumerism.
... Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age." Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000[4] devoted to challenging consumerism."
"The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters
Not really. The Democrats, unions and other parties want to morph its message into anti-corporation for political reasons. Much as the tea party started as anti-spending and anti-waste and was morphed into something else.
Footage of police clearing camp in LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=99ItfGwfCTo#t=163s
Adbusters sounds like it should be the name of a firefox extension...
I have Time's Person of the Year on my resume. Thank you very much.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
It's about influence of the news, not morality.
But to be honest, they should have picked Hitler for the last century.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
I keep waiting for Time to appear on its own cover. Who here reads Time? If you do, I bet there's a strong correlation with how often you visit the dentist.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
This is the equivalent to the schools handing out those bumper stickers that say, "My child is a Very Important Person at Random Elementary School Number Five." Instead of celebrating Honor Roll achievement by students, we celebrate every kid who shows up. It's celebrating and rewarding mediocrity.
Time's Person of the year is EVERYONE! Not because you did anything special, but just because you're you.
I can see the Hallmark card now.
P.S. I should get a bumper sticker and/or magazine cover for the correct use of the word you're.
What about the Wutbürgers of Stuttgart, Germany ?
They want people to think that something has changed. Let people think they can stop supporting those trying to alter the system, that they can go home. Sorry, but the cover of Time is a worthless gauge of change and while it's a good headline... that's all it is.
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You must referring to "criminals", not "protesters". Just because they call themselves protesters doesn't mean they deserve the title. The editors clearly intended the award for the people who practiced proper nonviolent protests about real (though myriad) issues, not the dimwits who tagged along as an excuse to fuck people over however the felt like.
..when Time chose "Hungarian Freedom Fighter" as Person of the Year. More specific than the other examples, but the precedent for not naming one person goes pretty far back.
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That is the SlashDot angle. Previously you'd have to organize people by word-of-mouth, which has range issues. Or through conventional media, which is easier to control by governments.
I venture the answer is both yeas and no. In liberal democracies protests have always existed. In more autocratic countries, less so. Social media helped get around their restrictions.
It's a crock, but who thinks that Time is still relevant anyway?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
As such I stood by with at most sympathy and some odd feelings of survivor's guilt
Sorry, but equating your staying at home and not getting a little teary-eyed from pepper spray is hardly the same as having the rest of your family gunned down my mexican drug lords or sent to gas chambers.
Your use of the term "survivor's guilt" robs it of all meaning for those who have truly suffered.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When they made the cowardly decision not to make it Osama Bin Laden. It wasn't intended to be a high school popularity contest; it was the biggest news maker of the year; e.g. Hitler during the WWII era. That's when they started the slide into marketability-driven choices.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
reason with them, for to reason with them would cost us our power.
we cannot fight them, for to fight them will further galvanize their resolve and demonize our ideology.
we cannot buy them, for they cannot be bought
we cannot laugh at them, for they make a valid point softly echoed by even our own elite
so we will marginalize them into the pages of pop culture. immortalized on times front cover, their message dilute and hazy, their image another iconic touchstone of american history to fall into the ranks of parachute pants, snap bracelets, and most importantly, obscurity.
Good people go to bed earlier.
"Person Of The Year" could be man or woman, or group. "Man Of The Year" is one male. So giving more people the ability to be represented is "politically correctness"?
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Well, they probably do this because for a while now every yeare the man of the year is Carlos Slim.
A better term would be "Whiny Ass"
These people wouldn't know what a real protest for a real reason was, even if it came up and bit them in the butt while they sit around and make a mess of the public park.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I wish I could afford to take as many weeks off to protest as the OWS. Oh thats right, most of them are still living off mommy and daddy.
I agree with Time's naming the protester as their person of the year, I do not agree with lumping the OWS type crowds in the US with them. The real protesters are those of the Arab Spring and possible Russian version.
Over here the only threats they had to face were from each other and the weather. They could all go home knowing that they would not end up in a prison for protesting... yet at the same time the US protesters wanted nothing to do with the real homeless and such, the real people who truly need help, not the iPhone wielding whiners.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
I used to subscribe to both and enjoyed both, especially in the late 70s and early 80s. Over time, they both became very liberal. I prefer a magazine that reports the news in a more neutral manner. I shouldn't be able to tell if they lean left or right. I want to read articles and decide how I feel about a subject. I enjoy excellent reporting and excellent journalism but I do not enjoy having someone else' opinion proselytized - even when I agree with that position. The only magazines that I still enjoy, these days, are science magazines and maybe a few others that manage not to preach.
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It's not like they restricted it to men before, they just called it woman of the year when they gave it to a woman. Post switching to person of the year, it's gone entirely to men (except when it's not gone to specific people at all). So changing it to person hasn't meant more people were represented - it's just meant phrasing the title unnaturally. It's a completely superficial change which does nothing to actually address inequality - like political correctness usually is.
I am trolling
One wrong does not justify a second wrong. The fact that the second wrong is of a smaller magnitude does not really change this. This basic problem is that the campers are actually acting very much like the 1%. Self indulgent, entitled to act as they wish, a sense that they are above the law, leaving messes for others to cleanup and/or pay for.
Actually "man" is gender neutral. But usually only those who speak English as their second language know that.
English has no male specific pronouns.
you do realize that to those protesting in the countries you mentioned, you are not well liked. Most view the USA and its citizens as the 1%. Your country controls the worlds wealth and uses it to disrupt other countries such as mine.
We also find great disparity between the issues the Americans protested vs. the issues we protested. Don't think you have any solidarity here. If you were dropped off in the streets when we protest, you would not last very long.
Your issues are petty. Our issues deal with freedom, liberty and survival.
Bill O'Reilly routinely makes shit up. Routinely. So much so Ford's Theater is refusing to sell his book.
Actually shit was made up about this book being banned and you seem to have bought it.
The truth of the matter was that the book was always for sale in the lobby/visitors center of the theatre. It was merely not available in a less frequented basement area that was more for academic works.
Also if you had read the complaints by the park service you would have seen they were quite minor.
Typos?:
Theatre burned in 1862 vs 1863.
8 previous performances vs 7.
Extremely minor errors, some inconsequential:
9 feet from stage rather than 12.
"Played here often" vs "12 prior performances".
"Secret tunnel" vs "passage way through basement".
Minor errors:
Confusion over the use of the name "Ford's Opera House".
Missed that Grant and Lee met a second time at Appomattox.
Use of too modern terminology, "oval office" today being synonymous with "presidential office".
Debatable:
Washington portrait indicating presence of President, perhaps it was a new tradition.
Peep hole carved for guard not booth. But did Booth ever use it?
That's it for the National Park service list.
Yes
It had no impact on anything except to fill newspaper headlines in newspapers (a few) who thought OWS was actually relevant.
They've elected no one, and the only thing they've done is crap on police cars.
Nothing like an protester complaining about income disparity on his iPhone. Its like a playboy model complaining that everybody stares at her breasts.
Teabagger
Oops, your bias is showing (maturity level, too).
I got dinner and a roof over my head, other than that, I was on my own. I couldn't afford to see a movie or buy a beer. Once those two years of misery were over, then I moved out.
That would sound like heaven to 99% of the global population.
Just sayin' ;-)
Couldn't resist linking to this snippet of a Mr. Show episode dealing with protesters. I promise it's funny! :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnnHzu3Y0w
Teabagger
Oops, your bias is showing (maturity level, too).
He is also using "Teabagger", a term commonly associated with a homosexual sex act, as an insult. It's the equivalent of calling someone "gay" or a "faggot". That not only makes him bias, but a bigot as well.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
It's a book! It's full of science! It explains the batshit insanity of the right in a readable, amusing manner.
You owe yourself to give this book a read.
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east?
When you elect someone who doesn't believe that he should ever be unelected, you get the worst kind of despot: A despot with a mandate. Say goodby to rule of reason and the rights of minorities.
You also get confirmation that trying to bring peace, stability, and tolerance to the region may be futile. Given the choice, the people will elect the same sort of war mongering religious extremists that we've been struggling against all these years.
Now, there is no guarantee that it will turn out like that. The Islamists could respect the political process that brought them to power as well as the rights of those who do not share their radical views or even their religion. But the despotic thread is strong enough to be a real worry.
Predictable, and right on schedule. Appropriate for a totalitarian. Do the trains run on time in your world?
I sure hope so, for the sake of the poor railway workers.
Yes, he shot himself in the foot there. Another mistake was in enumerating the decade. The first decade correctly contains the years 2001 - 2010 whereas the 'noughties' contains 2000 - 2009. What he means by political correctness, is that 'Person of the year' became a paradigm shift (philosophical perspective) where the winner should be a political/cultural celebrity. Not as before, someone who was in the news very frequently.
There's nothing "insightful" about this comment.
The premise here is that only non social conservatives are smart enough to resist manipulation, which is ironic given how many cliches the poster repeats which he learned from other people.
The entire article is a muddle mess logically, but yet as dumb as it is, he convinced a couple of *even more confused* people to mark it as insightful.
Its exactly why OWS never made sense, and will be quickly forgotten now that its over.
The funny part is that a couple of people think they had any sort of influence at all.
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east? We should be embracing the fact it's democratic and fraud free and supporting whomever the people choose.
I realize the following is an extreme case but it is a real case and it occurred this week, not in the distant past. It may help you understand some of the concern and why people are less fearful of governments heading in the secular direction.
"Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft'"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041
More people showed up at one Tea Party rally in DC than exist in all of OWS. Everywhere.
Fact.
The Tea Party got 15 people elected to congress.
Fact.
OWS can't even poop in a toilet.
Fact.
Looks like the MSM is gearing up to deliver their 7%.
but did they actually change anything?
because i haven't seen occupy wallstreet stopping anything.
it did though, give the homeless new places to sleep in the various cities, for that, i applaud them.
Be seeing you...
like who gives a flying frack about 'Time'? the voice of the 1%
That is not accurate. They called themselves teabaggers and they only stopped when it was pointed out to them other connotation of term, that they stopped.
Similarly the stole the term 'we shall not forget, we shall not forgive' from 'Anonymous'. They did this whilst claiming to be Christians up until it was pointed out how this coflicted with their 'Lord's prayer', "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us", it would seem a lot of tea partiers are hell bound.
As for Time's choice of person of year, what a bunch of grovelers. No doubt down because of their previous choice http://theaddictiveblog.com/the-difference-between-julian-assange-and-mark-zuckerberg/ and everyone opinion of that choice and how it made Times choice of person of the year redundant.
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He is also using "Teabagger", a term commonly associated with a homosexual sex act, as an insult. It's the equivalent of calling someone "gay" or a "faggot". That not only makes him bias, but a bigot as well.
You're projecting. Teabagging has long since entered the American lexicon outside of a term strictly used to define an act for sexual gratification. If you don't believe me, put it into the looking glass of American culture, YouTube, and witness for yourself the current usage.
Does anyone else see the irony? It's delicious! Someone spin up "Age Of Aquarius" on the turntable!
His actions certainly sparked off the Arab Spring uprising, but he never intended to burn himself to death.
From: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1125/1224308109672.html
“He had been drinking and he poured a few drops of kerosene from a bottle on to himself and then lit the lighter – but it was only supposed to be a threat, because he was so angry at the police and the authorities.
“When he went on fire, they said it was an accident – he held the lighter too close to the bottle. By all accounts it was not planned.”
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Let's not forget that the real butterfly in this nice example of the butterfly effect is Bradley Manning. The disillusionment with the governments came when people in the Arab spring came to read about the extent of the corruption in the Wikileaks cables. These in turn fueled the winds of the Occupy movement by highlighting the nakedness of the western democracies and their politicians protecting only interests of corporations and forgiving huge mistakes of the financial industry with bailouts, regulation stalling and more business as usual... So, in a non-hypocritical world the person of the past few years would definitely be Bradley Manning. Where's the hurricane?
... to not read Time. Bandwaggon-jumping media at its "best".
Time's MOTY is so played out. It's now akin to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductions: really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Citation: when Tom Waits (whom I like a lot) heard he'd been nominated for the RRHOF, he thought it was a joke. It sorta was.
Try living in America with a towel on your head and see how long you last you camel riding hippie. You can be disappeared just because the government doesn't like you; they even have an organization that will grope your balls until you miss your flight to keep dirty Arabs off planes.
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I prefer to use the term teabaggers because it perfectly underscores the tone-deaf cluenessness of these people. Any immaturity displayed is a unfortunate result of addressing them on their own level. Never wrestle with a pig or argue with an idiot and all that.
And there's no reason I shouldn't share my personal opinion on some messageboard on teh intarwebs. It's not like I'm being promoted by a multi-billion dollar broadcast network where I routinely pass off opinion and outright falsehoods as fair and "balanced reporting" "in the public interest".
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Source please? I know it's a bit much asking for facts on /. but it would be nice.
I've never seen anyone in the tea party calling themselves a teabagger...
Teabagger
Oops, your bias is showing (maturity level, too).
So? What's wrong with being biased against extreme right wing fuckwits? Do you also think it's unfair to criticise neo-Nazis?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I find that mostly irrelevant. That's like saying the term 'mankind' should be known as 'personkind'... and the only time I've ever seen personkind referenced is when making fun of hardcore extreme feminists. They could also just as easily change it to 'woman of the year' as needed, or if it's someone of the LGBT crowd, ask them how they want to be referenced. Person of the year just sounds too damn politically correct... and there's already enough politically correct being jammed down our throats as is.
We took care of these issues over 200 years ago and now are just refining them. You are just catching up.
The word "man" encompasses all human beings, both male and female.
Always has.
Once political correctness came into fashion this was suddenly filed down the memory hole.
At the risk of Godwining this thread, Hitler was Time Man of the Year
Yes, but you forget, he was picked when the editors of Time Magazine actually had balls.
Just so I can understand your point better... Is this a concise statement of what you're saying? "We have it worse so your opinions don't matter. Also, I don't like you, so your opinions don't matter. Also, I think a more than 50% of the world feels the same way I do."
Our issues deal with freedom, liberty, and survival. You're a typical, ignorant USA-hater. You lack understanding of how our society works. You think everything you see on TV from the USA is indicative of our populace. You're a fucking disgrace to humanity.