Originally posted by Tzeentch
If my uncle had been killed by a sniper, and my father explicitly taught me that snipers were cowards my entire life, I probably wouldn't like snipers either.
So as a grown man, you'd make blanket statements like that? I didn't see him say anything about Muslims, or terrorists, or anything else. His viewpoints are interesting, if now downright retarded.
Originally posted by psmith81992Yes. Everyone makes blanket statements like that, or holds blanket sentiments like that, about something.
So as a grown man, you'd make blanket statements like that?
To clarify, I don't entirely agree with with his opinion, but I recognize that it's an opinion and find the massive amounts of butthurt surrounding it to be disproportionate.
Originally posted by Tzeentch
Yes. Everyone makes blanket statements like that, or holds blanket sentiments like that, about something.To clarify, I don't entirely agree with with his opinion, but I recognize that it's an opinion and find the massive amounts of butthurt surrounding it to be disproportionate.
If he had said "Suicide bombers are cowards", do you think anyone would give a shit?
There's a difference. Suicide bombers are universally known as cowards. Snipers are not. The responses to his opinion have been hilarious.
Having an opinion about something doesn't automatically make the topic subjective. All Moore does is shit on this country continuously without damning the terror and suicide bombings. I mean it's ironic that he shits on the one place that allows him to talk shit. I don't think anybody takes that walking donut seriously but i felt compelled to post.
You're right, but the bravery of someone's actions is an inherently subjective topic. I don't think sniping is cowardly (though it is, by design, scumbaggy ad underhanded), but I don't think suicide bombers are cowardly either. I think it takes extreme courage to strap a bomb to your chest and blow yourself up on nothing but faith. I think it takes a massive amount of bravery to stand up to the American war-machine in general.
I don't agree with everything Moore says, but I don't see the point in begrudging him for calling out America on its dumb-shit. America isn't perfect- it's massively dysfunctional and has a slew of problems. People should shit on it, and we don't do it nearly enough. On the other hand, you can't throw a rock without hitting a criticism of extremism/terrorism.
That said, I feel sometimes like he's the liberal equivalent of Glen Beck.
Strapping a bomb to yourself and killing women and children is cowardly. Universally. The fact that Moore criticizes the US but won't say anything about terrorists, suicide bombings, etc is damning. He's far more left than Beck is right . He's a self hating American whose opinions border on hypocrisy.