San Bernardino

I'm not trying to rationalize anything. I'm just curious about what happened, why they did this. It's spitballing in the absence of facts.

 

Yes. That's one of two references ever to alleged "smallpox blankets". Medved mentions it. It's also 140 years after the Mayflower landed. There's no other evidence that this happened, and certainly no evidence that it was some widespread tactic -- especially at the time of the Pilgrims arrival.

 

And Old_Tony brushes up against the ethnic cleansing fantasies that so much of the right wing keeps buried deep down.

 

Which has nothing to do with what happened in present day New England more than 100 years later.

 

You speculated that he may have been "triggered" having, "gotten tired of hearing all Moslems trashed over the actions of a few?"

That's an absurd thought.

 

Minor point of order: One of those letters was written by the Commander in Chief of the British Army. They detail the transfer of just two infected blankets, but make it pretty clear that genocide was the goal, regardless of means.

 

Yeah, but Columbus still gets his own day and positive media coverage despite his despicable actions.

He's the Kobe Bryant of explorers.

 

But didn't you *just* say that we shouldn't be looking at anything that could be done to moderate extremists because "There's nothing we can do, or change, about our society that will appease Islamists. "

So we can't change anything to moderate extremism. And we can't try to limit access to dangerous devices. In your opinion, what does that leave?

 

Yeah, and Shakespeare is still considered the "best" author in the English language despite his ant-Semitic depiction of Shylock.

 

Better hashtags ...

 

It's a long game. I'm sure they'll have their day.

 

Yeah. You've defined the problem.

Not all Muslims are violent, but all violent Muslims are a subset of the larger Muslim community.