Re: Remember Me – Lizzie Palmer
I am so proud that the USA has taught this 15 year old to think that our troops are white only. Makes sense from her world view (that white people are the only ones worth remembering), that she would create a video asking to remember those who kill but not those who are killed by them. This is the same ideology that leads to the statement “God bless America” instead of “God bless us all.”
We must find a way to resolve our differences without resorting to violence. Step one is to understand that we are all human… not just white Americans.
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Desert Fiz responds:
Re: We must find a way to resolve our differences without resorting to violence. Step one is to understand that we are all human…
How do we get Radical Islam to understand, by submitting? How come the burden isn’t on them to learn how to live with the other people of the world instead of the rest of the world conforming to them?
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Re: How come the burden isn’t on them to learn…
Oh Fiz… it >>IS<< on them. But just because they fail doesn’t me that we become barbarians and start raping 13 year-olds and burning their families.
When you think you are a victim you often miss that you have a role in oppression as well. Every single group that I am aware of has, at some point, been a victim of someone else’s oppressive acts. Every single group. And every group has also been a part in another’s oppression.
It is rare that the coin gets flipped (like I doubt the Palestinians will ever oppress the Israelis just like the Israelis will never oppress the Germans/Italians). Because it is rare that it gets flipped, so often those who are now the oppressors (because they were recently the oppressed) fail to see the damage they do.
Look… after European Christians, Arab Muslims have probably sent more people into slavery/forced-bondage than any other group. Now they want to cry foul because Christians are running (another) Crusade through their lands. But they do not speak about the horrors they wreck on the non-Islamic world – even today! If Saudi Arabians want to get mad about something… they need to get Sudan to act right. If bin Laden wants to stop the oppression in Afghanistan, he needs to look at how Muslims are treating non-Muslims in the Philippines.
But Fiz… so friggin WHAT that these fools do not look at their own stuff. So what! That does not mean that we, as victims, get to invade Iraq and kill over 100,000 non-combatants. Radical Islam that oppresses those who are different is bad. OK, I give you that. But how does that free us up from our own responsibilities to act like humans? Just because they do not act humane does not mean we do not act humane. If we lose our humanity and start to act like them… we have lost what we are fighting for.
Can’t you see that?
This little (I assume) white girl made a video to do something worthy – support those who are fighting for her freedom. But in the process, she forwards white supremacy, Christian oppression and a whole host of other questionable “American” values.
She is less human now. And she is being rewarded for her “mistakes”. She is being told that America is like it was in the picture books back in the 50’s… when there were no Asians, Hispanics or even black folk (and certainly no gay or poor people) who helped this country work. When the role of a woman was to support her man. When there were no crazy Muslims anywhere.
By choosing to talk about how bad Muslims are… you give her a free pass at being a real person. Why would you want to teach her that? Remember… she may one day come to rule this country? Why not give her a real education and help her to understand the world as it really is… instead of asking her to live in a fantasy that never was and never will be?