Nicker on 1/12/2023 at 13:15
Quote Posted by mxleader
M&M's aren't fuckable? Dafuq you say, mang?
Totally! Until teh libz made her ditch the sexy pumps and wear sensible flats instead. Now she looks like a librarian. A hot, Rubenesque, green librarian.
Damn it. These grievance-culture wars are giving me a headache and a hardon.
heywood on 2/12/2023 at 21:38
Quote Posted by SD
As a person of Irish and Jewish descent, two other peoples the European powers did a bloody good job of trying to wipe out, I am perfectly happy for any one of you to culturally appropriate the shit out of shamrocks, shillelaghs, yarmulkes, dreidels, blintz, borscht and boxty. Culture belongs to everyone.
(not gonna lie though, I raised an eyebrow when I came across a cafe selling bacon and cream cheese bagels, breaking not one, but two kosher laws at once)
The Germans are nice enough not to keep rubbing the Holocaust in your faces. They don't have two national holidays to celebrate the start of the Third Reich. They didn't grow up running around with toy guns playing shoot the Jews. They don't dress up as Rabbis for fun on Halloween. They didn't make movies and TV shows glorifying it. That's the kind of stuff we do to the decedents of the native nations we wiped out. We should know better, but we're assholes.
Nicker on 2/12/2023 at 22:33
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Culture belongs to everyone.
Every group that identifies as a group, has a culture but that doesn't make those cultures interchangeable or historically equivalent. Everyone has an asshole too, but don't borrow someone else's to take a dump, especially on a third party.
Azaran on 7/12/2023 at 18:37
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67651580) Denmark outlaws burning the Quran
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Offenders now face a fine or up to two years in jail after a 94-77 vote.
It follows a series of burnings of Islam's holy book that led to uproar in Muslim countries.
Denmark and neighbouring Sweden have recently seen a number of street protests over such incidents, raising security concerns in Scandinavia.
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Back in August, when the government was proposing the changes, ministers said they wanted to send a signal to the world after witnessing over a few weeks 170 demonstrations, including Quran burnings in front of foreign embassies.
At the time, Denmark's PET intelligence service warned that such incidents had increased the terrorist threat.
Sweden has also seen a series of Quran burnings, and its security service has warned of a worsening security situation. In July, the Swedish embassy in Iraq was set alight by protesters.
Tocky on 7/12/2023 at 19:15
Well that was a spineless pussout on their values.
RippedPhreak on 7/12/2023 at 19:19
Liberal democracies always bow to the most violent mob. What is the lesson for far-right folks here then...?
Tocky on 7/12/2023 at 19:19
Hitler. Oh you mean just this incident? Ask them about bible burning being not banned?
Azaran on 7/12/2023 at 19:30
Basically:
"We're facing threats from violent far right religious extremists. Let's cater to their wants, instead of fighting them".
What a world we live in.
