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Old 08-13-2013 | 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by chignutsak
I have a follow on question for the OP: Why are Americans willfully ignorant?
Originally Posted by DeadHead
Because a majority of us choose to base our opinions off of emotionally-charged, knee-jerk, reactionary information purported from politically-charged , radically-biased news/media outlets. A freedom of speech that has become a freedom of self-entitlement to voice one's opinion for the sake of voicing an opinion with little regard to fact, accuracy, or brevity.

It's amazing to me that with the volume of information readily available at our fingertips over the World Wide Web, for all intensive purposes, people seem more ignorant and intolerant than ever.
I call it fast food news/information/media. It's all cheap and readily available. It's all very slick and cleverly marketed/packaged/sold. Its has tons of bad for you artifical crap trown in to male it easiky consumable. It's also all to easy for people to intake/digest because it satisfies they're wants/cravings and doesn't make them have to think very hard.

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I am now liberal hippie to the right wingers, and I am a conservative crock to the extreme left, but yet I haven't changed. Thoughtful discussion is quite rare (look at some of the posters here, or any web forum).
As is critical thinking.

I prefer to think of myself as a political agnostic. I'd actually have to see government ACTUALLY show up and function before I could believe in any one party.

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Old 08-14-2013 | 04:41 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Because you don't bother to know any better? Chechnyans (sp?), Basques, Irish, etc...It might also be because it's the most populous religion, just like how more populous areas have more crime.
Though you try to make a good point that there are terrorist organizations throughout the world, you start your counter argument with a poor example.
The Chechnya *terrorists* are most often of the Muslim religion and can (and should) be counted among the Islamist extremists.
Chechnya is predominantly Muslim. Most Chechens belong to the Hanafi school of thought of Sunni Islam

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Old 08-14-2013 | 09:32 AM
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Having spent a fair amount of my life living in muslim countries, I have come to understand two things. Extremists are a greater threat to muslim countries and attempts to coerce humans are doomed to end in failure
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Old 08-14-2013 | 11:12 AM
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Default Another consequence of Global Warming!

Hot weather makes people cranky. How many Eskimos go around blowing up igloos?
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Old 08-14-2013 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by DeadHead
Because a majority of us choose to base our opinions off of emotionally-charged, knee-jerk, reactionary information purported from politically-charged , radically-biased news/media outlets. A freedom of speech that has become a freedom of self-entitlement to voice one's opinion for the sake of voicing an opinion with little regard to fact, accuracy, or brevity.

It's amazing to me that with the volume of information readily available at our fingertips over the World Wide Web,
for all intensive purposes, people seem more ignorant and intolerant than ever.



What in the heck does that mean?????


That is all. Carry on.

Oh yeah; Hint

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Old 08-14-2013 | 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Ludicrous Speed


What in the heck does that mean?????


That is all. Carry on.

Oh yeah; Hint

I love it!
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Old 08-14-2013 | 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
Hot weather makes people cranky. How many Eskimos go around blowing up igloos?
I believe, to be politically correct, they like to be referred to as Inuits.

I do agree with your statement, though. Hot weather irritates me.
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Old 08-14-2013 | 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by mspano85
I believe, to be politically correct, they like to be referred to as Inuits.

I do agree with your statement, though. Hot weather irritates me.
Nope.

Lets not forget to make sure we add in the ever PC correct (and always abused) term; "Native" in there.l As in Native Alaskans. Or if you prefer; Native Inuits.
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Old 08-14-2013 | 08:47 PM
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We don't have that much domestic terrorism here.
You have no idea.
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Old 08-14-2013 | 09:35 PM
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Exclamation Thread drifting North

Here's an interesting article on the Eskimo/Inuit terms:

Alaska Native Language Center | Inuit or Eskimo?
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