J. Nol, it may be lazy for most people who are mostly also ignorant of the history of this and won't bother to inform themselves. However, the Rs are making as much hay as they can while being total hypocrites. I was surprised by some of the responses of students at Portland State, who were all for what the protesters were doing. They we…
J. Nol, it may be lazy for most people who are mostly also ignorant of the history of this and won't bother to inform themselves. However, the Rs are making as much hay as they can while being total hypocrites. I was surprised by some of the responses of students at Portland State, who were all for what the protesters were doing. They were both frosh and sounded totally naive. Of the first 12 protesters arrested by Portland police in clearing the library, only 4 were students. Also saw the anarchist symbol as part of the graffiti and the mess the protesters had created inside. I support peaceful protest, but not violence, intimidation, and destruction. Yes, religion is often used to vilify the other, but it is also often used to hide other priorities like conquest, exploitation, etc.
First you have to dehumanize the other, then you can exploit and conquer. Any training of soldiers has to include stamping out empathy, especially for the "other" or the enemy, otherwise those soldiers would have difficulty killing them.
This was a problem in the Civil War when the country was more religious. Soldiers did not want to kill and one case cited in a book about death in the Civil War (title escapes me at the moment)one soldier refused even when threatened with death himself, a southerner.
J. Nol, it may be lazy for most people who are mostly also ignorant of the history of this and won't bother to inform themselves. However, the Rs are making as much hay as they can while being total hypocrites. I was surprised by some of the responses of students at Portland State, who were all for what the protesters were doing. They were both frosh and sounded totally naive. Of the first 12 protesters arrested by Portland police in clearing the library, only 4 were students. Also saw the anarchist symbol as part of the graffiti and the mess the protesters had created inside. I support peaceful protest, but not violence, intimidation, and destruction. Yes, religion is often used to vilify the other, but it is also often used to hide other priorities like conquest, exploitation, etc.
First you have to dehumanize the other, then you can exploit and conquer. Any training of soldiers has to include stamping out empathy, especially for the "other" or the enemy, otherwise those soldiers would have difficulty killing them.
This was a problem in the Civil War when the country was more religious. Soldiers did not want to kill and one case cited in a book about death in the Civil War (title escapes me at the moment)one soldier refused even when threatened with death himself, a southerner.