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1. TW on April 21st, 2007 11:20 pm

   At least the comments on D’Souza’s blog of Wingnuttery are entertaining!

   It is pretty typical for the idiots like this to rant on about their favourite “enemy” grouping (Schlussel for example…) whenever anything like this happens – based on what D’Souza is saying it seems Atheists have the moral high ground (again) here, as all the Christian wingnuts fell over themselves to blame [insert ethnic group here]…

   I suppose D’Souza is living proof that you can be a few IQ points short of an amoeba and still be able to blog.

   As an aside, I suspect I am less “compassionate” about this killing than some other people, partly I suspect this is because the “compassionate” Americans are demonstrating their intense insularity and belief that anything which takes place in the US is of massive global significance. I wonder if D’Souza can inform us how many teenagers died in (for example) Darfour on the day of the Virginia Tech shooting…

2. nullifidian on April 21st, 2007 11:39 pm

   I wonder if D’Souza can inform us how many teenagers died in (for example) Darfour on the day of the Virginia Tech shooting…

   I know that I can’t, but then again I don’t claim to be both a famous and worldly-wise social commentator and have a pure christian morality dictated from above.

3. TW on April 21st, 2007 11:57 pm

   I certainly have no idea how many teenagers died in Darfur, or pretty much anywhere other than Virginia Tech on the day of the shooting (which goes to show how prevalent US affairs are in the world media.) The main thing which tends to wind me up from some of the American blogs about the event is the idea that this is the most atrocious thing which has ever happened.

   The shooting certainly was a tragedy, and I am sure that the families of those who died will truly see it as a catastrophic event more important than anything else in the world, but on a global scale it is, sadly, not that uncommon.

   If the RightWingnut Americans who bemoan the “lack of compassion” over Virginia Tech could bring themselves to show the same compassion about the rest of the world, I think it really would make the world a better place! :-) (Sadly most are to enamoured with God telling them what to do to want to improve things)

4. nullifidian on April 22nd, 2007 1:11 am

   If the RightWingnut Americans who bemoan the “lack of compassion” over Virginia Tech could bring themselves to show the same compassion about the rest of the world, I think it really would make the world a better place!

   Indeed, and this doesn’t apply only to them.

   Sadly most are to enamoured with God telling them what to do to want to improve things

   I think it might be more precise to say that they’re enamoured of their god telling them what to tell other people to do. They seem to care more about what happens in Dave and Steve’s bedroom than they do just about anything else, except perhaps calling anyone who dislikes the administration a “traitor”.

5. TW on April 22nd, 2007 11:50 am

   I think it might be more precise to say that they’re enamoured of their god telling them what to tell other people to do. They seem to care more about what happens in Dave and Steve’s bedroom than they do just about anything else, except perhaps calling anyone who dislikes the administration a “traitor”.

   Very, very well said.