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There are few incidents in which violence as retaliation resulted in change. Violence typically results in the exact opposite. People shore up their beliefs and strap their helmets on tighter for the fight ahead. Too true. But then, how do we dissolve prejudices and change people in a positive way?...

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Certainly plausible.

Someone more inclined toward conspiracy theories than myself might also suggest that it was staged by the government as a means of justifying intensified hatred toward and oppression of Muslims.

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I cannot imagine it being an acceptable thing to do to in the 1960s to stand by the racist publications of newspapers that were protested against by blacks (even if the protest was violent) in places like New York City and Oakland. Hell to the fucking no. The retaliation to hate speech is something ...

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And do you know why that is? Because Muslims jeopardize the very foundation on which the United Corporations of America is built on. And so those corporations throw millions of dollars into tools that encourage society to view Muslims as the enemy instead of who the real enemy is. Blacks nor Jews n...

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^ That's what I was getting at when I said the girl couldn't expect consequences for drinking. It's because she's not doing any real harm in drinking. But, yes, Hedbo is doing directly harming things.

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But when it comes to Muslims it's more accepted? How is one hate speech and the other satire? Obviously I do believe both are hate speech, and what Charlie Hebdo did was hate speech. But I don't understand how people are more willing to condemn one and laugh at the other when it's practically the s...

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I'm not serious. We're in agreement. I expressed my agreement with Liszt's post and so did you, so I thought we were on the same page. Carry on.

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Same people who get offended when they see a Muslim woman in hijab.

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Cassius Clay wrote:No, if their society/government wasn't oppressive and evil, they would be alive today.

You're victim-blaming.

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My God, it's so stupid....I can't...

These people were at work. In an office. Drawing something, or doing some accounting. Do people in offices bring guns to work? Not likely. Jesus Christ what an idiot.

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I can't go that far. Clemens and Bonds showed radical gains in size very abruptly. Johnson and Martinez stayed really thin and never really added a lot of power.

Every player found out to have juiced should be immediately banned for life and all accolades stripped and burned.

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The cartoon Sikax most recently posted with the bullets going through the building and hitting the mosque suggests that Islamophobia and harm to Muslims is caused by these terrorists actions. No, harm to Muslims is caused by racism and Western Imperialism. That's the reason I said it was poignant. ...

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Obviously Liszterine is correct.

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Yeah, I can't get behind Derived in the sense that speech should not be totally free. That's fine. But that doesn't mean someone doesn't also have the right to get super pissed about it. Murder? No, still not condoning it, but perhaps murder is just a degree of anger that those people felt could be ...

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The drunk/rape analogy is tricky. The girl just wants to drink and get drunk. She might be with friends. She might not even have registered that there could be dangerous guys around when she started drinking. Charlie Hedbo knew full well that certain Muslims would be and have been offended and have ...

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These are good.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/h ... icAK1E7gO7

My favorite (poignant):

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Killing people for publishing cartoons because those cartoons offend certain religious sensibilities is "the problem" here. I've found the best way to solve a problem is to start as far back as I can go--to find its roots, so to speak. If we both identify the problem here as violence agai...

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Yes, and you'll notice I haven't condoned violence against the artists or the newspaper, but this is propaganda and that's what Boomer asked.

(Also, not sure Jerry Falwell is quite to Christianity what Muhammed is to Islam, but that's not the point.)

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I don't get it. How is Charlie Hebdo propaganda? They're pretty obviously extremely anti-Islam. http://vladtepesblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/charlie-hebdo-toon-1.jpg "Are you sure Mohammed had sex with a pig's head?" "I cannot afford to pay a nine year old hooker." http:/...

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It's one thing that Islam conflicts with Western values and it's another for a Western newspaper to deliberately satirize Islam to the point of egregious insult. I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here—that Charlie Hebdo should not be in the business of offensive satire? I think what Sikax m...

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It's one thing that Islam conflicts with Western values and it's another for a Western newspaper to deliberately satirize Islam to the point of egregious insult.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting http://www.cnbc.com/id/102316759 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/07/us-france-shooting-idUSKBN0KG0Y120150107 http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/paris-shooting-charlie-hebdo/?_r=0 http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article5535762....

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Sea of Trees and The Revenant stand out to me. Promising year indeed.

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[laugh] This synopsis for The Lobster : In a dystopian near-future, lonely people are obliged to find a matching mate within a 45-day period in a hotel. If they fail, they are transformed into animals and sent off into the woods, but one man escapes and finds love, despite the rules of the City. Sta...

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I support this.

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Received the necessary minimum of 75%: Randy Johnson (97.3%) Pedro Martinez (91.1%) John Smoltz (82.9%) Craig Biggio (82.7%) This was Biggio's third year on the ballot. He's been climbing in percentage each year and finally got over the hump. Mike Piazza has also been on the ballot for three years a...

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Gonna put this here to look at later.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... 5-20150105

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Derogatory toward people who drive vans.

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God damn it.

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Panthers, Ravens, Colts.....LIONS

I hope.

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77 total yards on offense. Wow.

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Arizona is embarrassing itself. This game should be much more of a blowout than the score indicates. How they won 11 games I do not know.

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Big Eyes - 8.5/10 Surprisingly quite good. I had no expectations coming in and very much enjoyed myself. It's the true story of Margaret and Walter Keane, San Francisco-based married painters in the 1960s. She does the actual painting. He takes credit for it. At first she's OK with this arrangement...

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He did fuck up, but you're right; it's tasteless at its best and insultingly belittling at its worst. Drunk college kids are in fact stupid.

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Oregon fans were chanting "No means no!" toward Winston after the game. Funny/sad.

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That I saw, anyway. Films I suspect would be on this list had I seen them before the year ended include American Sniper and A Most Violent Year . I plan on seeing these as soon as they're available in my area. So, my top ten: 1. Nightcrawler 2. Birdman 3. Interstellar 4. Foxcatcher 5. The Grand Buda...

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Gendo wrote:happy to see the Patriots win

Terrible. Terrible. Ew.

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Fuckin hell I was just going to start this thread.

Anyway, go Panthers!

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Yes well hello there.

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