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You Can't Say That On the Internet
hessian writes in with a story about the arbitrary and often outdated online decency standards being imposed by companies."A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide. What is the vehicle for this new prudishness? Dour, one-dimensional algorithms, the mathematical constructs that automatically determine the limits of what is culturally acceptable. Consider just a few recent kerfuffles. In early September, The New Yorker found its Facebook page blocked for violating the site’s nudity and sex standards. Its offense: a cartoon of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve’s bared nipples failed Facebook’s decency test."
A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A.
When has Chick-fil-A ever called for censorship? Last I checked, progressives were abusing government power to silence Chick-fil-A, not the other way around.
Explain.
All you have to do to offend a Christian is question his God.
Also 'we the people' was a public letter to a king.
Wrong document: The Declaration of Independence was the entire Continental Congress flipping off George III (which should be pointed out, came over a year after the fighting started). The Constitution (which starts of "We the People") was written 11 years later for the benefit of the then-bickering states.
I am officially gone from
That's funny, you might want to go look at what the "savior obama" has been up to in terms of throwing your freedoms into the fire while pissing all over the Constitution in ways that those "evil christians" can't do.
Om, nomnomnom...
Same here. I'm still a Christian, but the politicization of religion and the hypocrisy of other Christians made church unbearable. I think there are more of us than most people imagine.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
When you can offer an example of 3000 instances (to start with) then people might pay attention.
So far you have offered nothing that can't be explained by a random nut jobs.
If you go to the middle east and offend a Muslim (that is, engage in Blasphemy) you will most likely get your throat cut. Your odds are even higher that you may get your head cut off courtesy of the State. Go ahead and travel to Saudi Arabia and engage in conduct such as adultery or something as simple as tearing up the Koran. If you are really brave, take a dump on it. I wouldn't bet anything on your survival, let alone getting out of the country. Hell, Obama effectively put someone in jail for making an anti-muslim film.
Now, do that same thing in the Vatican (a place which is home to the historically most violent of Christian sects). I suspect that at most you would be rudely ejected from the premises. Who knows, maybe some citizen would beat you up. Worst, you might have to put up with the Italian legal system.
My statement is true. Offending a Muslim is manifestly more risky than offending a Christian. All your prattle about goalposts and whimsical dialogues doesn't change that fact.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
You can make all the outrageous claims you want, but without any source citation you're just blowin' in the wind.
When you can offer an example of 3000 instances (to start with) then people might pay attention. So far you have offered nothing that can't be explained by a random nut jobs.
I know it will do no good as you'll just move the goalposts again, but I'll humor you anyway:
There was the firebombing of a theater in response to a movie Christians didn't like
Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivick were both identified as Christian terrorists.
The IRA was well known for it's acts of Christian terrorism.
Of course, those are but a few examples of many, up-to-and-including the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition (which no one expects), the KKK's influence in southern America, or any of innumerable examples about the world
Of course, as your original premise was to imply that any and every Muslim would cut a person's throat for offending (in spite of the fact you can't seem to muster even a single source to back your outrageously bigoted claim), but that not a single Christian would, my earlier example of a "random nutjob" suffices to disprove your hypothesis, your lack of agreement notwithstanding.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
first point :
Both sexes have 'boobs' Its just that natal females have more developed breast tissue, all oestrogen does is to cause that tissue to develop ( to simplify )
FYI lactation and breastfeeding is even possible in men look (up the Aka tribe)
The second is just an opinion, which I feel free to ignore. although I have to admit to a slight agreement with you on 'fatass's ' but it's my body so I'll do what the f*ck I want with it :-)