Foxman

Sem·ite  (smt)

n.1.A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. · _{7 hours ago}

viruscop

Are you saying that you would have liked the speech if Biden had not put a number on the influence of Jewish culture, but had instead just called that influence "disproportionate?" · _{2 hours ago}

Group Captain Mandrake

Hello Viruscop.  You've been quiet for a while, or perhaps I've not been attentive to your posts.  Anyway, my take on this is that Biden is such a schlemiel  that he actually thinks he's paying us a compliment.  For a change, Jonathan Chait has written something partially cogent on this matter.  · _{4 hours ago}

viruscop: I'm Jewish and I'm not offended in the least. When I went to a private Jewish school from K-12, the entire student body and faculty frequently made jokes about the power of Jewish influence. In fact, we enjoy the stereotype. It is even put forward in the Jewish textbooks that I had to read in high school.

I do not understand this phenomenon of conservatives getting offended for Jews. · _{7 hours ago}

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Stephen Hall

Nice rhetorical (I think) question. No human being is 'intrinsically' superior to any other. What makes us better or worse are the choices we make in the exercise of our free will. Therefore, Christians are not intrinsically superior to Muslims and Catholics are not intrinsically superior to Presbyterians, and vice versa.

An Islamist is a person who has made a choice to impose a (false) religion on his fellow men by violence, or to kill them if they reject the imposition. Because of that choice, the Islamist is morally deeply flawed, and therefore morally (but not 'intrinsically') inferior. Even an Islamist may repent of his choice. · _{4 hours ago}

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GayFreedomLover

I would have said it the other way.  Most who dislike it, lack knowledge about it.  I've always been willing to agree that "homophobia" was an unfortunate (if well understood) term.  But if fear = lack of knowledge than "homophobia" actually fits right down to the greek roots. · _{5 hours ago}

Vega Spur

Fear it in what way?  The fear it because they're really repressed homosexuals?  That's just an ad hominem attack, a favorite tactic of the gay rights movement. · _{7 hours ago}

Roberto

It doesn't make sense period. Those who continually make this claim are simply engaging in lazy thinking.  · _{8 minutes ago}

Mike LaRoche

Fear what?  That gays are going to break into my house and install track lighting? · _{3 minutes ago}

Caryn: Joseph Eagar, would you like, maybe, to rephrase what you said?

Homophobia?  Really?

I'm against homosexual marriage.  Bigot?  If you think so, I can live with it. · _{2 minutes ago}

Mendel

I think that question was phrased badly.  Having a child out of wedlock does not necessarily mean a child raised by a single parent, and many of the respondents may have assumed the question referred to unmarried parents who nonetheless remain in a committed relationship throughout the lives of their children.

So perhaps not all is lost? · _{2 hours ago}

EstoniaKat

Roddenberry is the Bible when it comes to Trek.

As far as the plot of this movie, it's no more than Star Trek 6 blown up on a larger scale. Federation Admirals plotting for war with the Klingons; Kirk getting in the way. after his original reluctance.