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Explosions at int'l airport in Istanbul

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by KJIM, Jun 28, 2016.

  1. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    What would a repressed Hispanic even look like? It has to be A-Rod, right?
     
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  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but caring Americans did change their profile picture when Paris and Brussels were hit (once they figured out what the Belgian flag looked like).

    Facebook even created tools to put an overlay of the French flag on your picture, and to temporarily make it your profile picture.

    Haven't seen that option yet to show support for the victims in Istanbul.

    So, why do we value white, Western European victims over Muslim victims in the Middle East, North Africa, or Asia?
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Yes. Of course.

    Liberals want to give more power to the central government. No better way to do that than for the central government to strip rights from its citizens.

    And, if they can take away a Constitutional right without changing the constitution, then they can do anything.
     
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  4. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Because the owners of Facebook are white?
     
  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    For every constitutional right denied, a liberal gets his wings!
     
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  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Can we please stop with the idea that what people do with their Facebook profile pictures in the wake of a tragedy actually means anything?

    Facebook is not real life.
     
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  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Oh, but it is.
     
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  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    If they don't care if people are killed, then why would a world in which less people are killed be "more to their liking"?
     
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  9. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    One can only be a "white Hispanic" when he's painted as the bad guy in a story. I'm sure there were plenty of victims in Orlando who are similarly skinned to George Zimmerman. But they're victims, so they're "brown" Hispanics for the purposes of the narrative.
     
  10. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Without reading any of this thread yet, let me guess: It's Clinton's fault, right?
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Hasn't come up.

    The argument is over whether liberals care enough about this (the answer is no), and why (the answer varies).
     
  12. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Hmm ...
     
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