White anxiety finds a home at Fox News

[Xystus]

as I have pointed out,

as i have pointed out, there exists two sets of rules, one that governs your actions and one that governs how you respond to others you disagree with… call that what you will but i dont think anythying i have said is wrong or a personal attack.

 

[dvdjs]

as i have pointed out, there exists two sets of rules

But you are wrong about that. There is one set of rules that apply.
You don’t seem to grasp the difference between picking out select phrases, putting on a partisan glass, then telling the faux story over and over again, versus giving a fair hearing to a complete statement, and explanations offered - if any - and drawing a conclusion. Sad.

 

[dvdjs]

Nobody can accuse me of being a Hillary fan, but I can think of a lot of religious beliefs and practices in this world that do need to change. In some countries where I have traveled, female genital mutilation has a religious argument to it. …

Partisan polemicists misrepresent these words from a longer speech at an international conference: Women in the World. The fuller remarks made specific points.

Yes, we’ve nearly closed the global gender gap in primary school, but secondary school remains out of reach for so many girls around the world. Yes, we’ve increased the number of countries prohibiting domestic violence, but still more than half the nations in the world have no such laws on the books, and an estimated one in three women still experience violence. Yes, we’ve cut the mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth.

All the laws we’ve passed don’t count for much if they’re not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice, not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

As I have said, and as I believe, the advancement of the full participation of women and girls in every aspect of their societies is the great unfinished business of the twenty-first century, and not just for women but for everyone — and not just in far away countries but right here in the United States.”

What is enumerated in the passage are the problems of denying education to women, denying recourse in cases of domestic violence, promotion health care that reduces great risks to the health of infants and mothers giving birth.

While open to some interpretation, the more strident claims about “what she meant” do not follow from the remarks; much of what is said at the speech misses the context entirely. Did the people who wrote about this ask for a clarification or a delimitation, or did they just make stuff up, independent of the truth.

Did Hillary Clinton Say Christians in America Must Deny Their Faith?

A Hillary Clinton speech on improving the plight of women and girls worldwide has been cited as a demand that American Christians deny their faith

www.snopes.com

 

[Xystus]

There is one set of rules that apply

and this would be that one set*

{ dvdjs is allowed to read what someone says and come to a conclusion, Others should take things hyperliterally and no conclusions allowed}

*look up set notation if you dont get it.

 

[dvdjs]

and this would be that one set*

You opinion is noted. But i think it is opinion that is not grounded in fact but in misunderstanding.
But enough about me. How about posting on thread topics and not about posters…

 

[marybobo]

Congratulations if you know our history. That is more than most Americans can say.

 

[MonteRCMS]

Illegal immigrants make up less than 4% o f the nations population.

Important data.

Nearly 15% of Americans were foreign-born in 1910, while in 1999, only about 10% were foreign-born." By 1970, immigrants accounted for 4.7 percent of the US population and rising to 6.2 percent in 1980, with an estimated 12.5 percent in 2009.

 

[MonteRCMS]

How about a Duke University lacrosse team member falsely accused of rape and having his life destroyed because of it? A lot of people with a lot of problems in the world.

Well stated.

 

[MonteRCMS]

female genital mutilation has a religious argument to it.

Important consideration.

 

[JanetF]

Are medical schools having problems getting students due to AMA policies? It’s not something I’m familiar with but it wouldn’t shock me if true.

I work at a medical school…No, the AMA policies are not creating enrollment problems for medical schools. That’s laughable.

 

[Inisfallen]

How about a Duke University lacrosse team member falsely accused of rape and having his life destroyed because of it?

Not that I’m all that impressed by a bunch of young men who hired a couple of strippers for their frat party (or team party, or whatever it was), but they didn’t deserve to be falsely accused.

Mike Nifong, the prosecuting attorney in that case, was disbarred for his actions. He was (very briefly) imprisoned for contempt of court. He is now bankrupt after paying lawyers’ fees to defend himself and being sued by the members of the Duke lacrosse team who he falsely accused.

He didn’t exactly go unpunished.

Crystal Mangum, the woman who made the initial accusation, is serving a lengthy prison sentence for an unrelated crime. She’ll be gone for quite a while.

Were those young men’s lives ruined? I don’t know. I suspect most people can’t remember their names. Of course, a Google search will turn up the case, but it will also turn up the fact that they were proved to be falsely accused.

 

[marybobo]

Very true. Sometimes I can’t understand the stances some take on the issue either.