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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Yes, there is a lot here that is about fear, but I expect leaders, like Bush, and people with the analytical ability of Bilmore, Club, et al. not to succomb to that fear and let it overcome their good sense. The lists like the one Bilmore put together are wonderful rhetorical devices, but are getting used here as a way to avoid debate and appeal to emotion. I have a disdain for that approach; it is the Not Me/Hank approach.
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Okay, now this is just stoopid. A list is only a rhetorical device when you don't like where it points. In the other universe, a list of such events is a showing of empirical evidence that a common thread binds Islamicists all around the world, and that that thread is made up of their willingness to murder and terrorize at the behest of their god. Shall I ignore that evidence and pretend that I hold respect for their point of view?
Have disdain, maybe, for a defensive thinking that attempts to label any thought process that includes members of discrete groups, because of their membership in those groups, as being racist.
