Letters to the Editor
stackey-dackey
Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
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Okay, Softdog
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We're all a bunch of self-absorbed whiners and your job, as killjoy number one, is to ensure that any pleasure we may get out of reading this admittedly fluffy piece of lifestyle writing is squashed.
I know, I know, it's important that people know about what is going on in other countries, and American's are notorious for self-absorption. But, the fact is, you will never get anyone over to your cause by trying to guilt them into feeling bad. You could have started your first post saying, Yeah things are bad for Americans, so you must imagine how terrible they are for other people throughout the world. See, that's nice. You acknowledge another persons troubles (and you don't denigrate them for having troubles) and then you inform them of how their troubles are part of a larger world. But instead you chose to attack Heather using strong language, and anybody else who might be living paycheck to paycheck (like myself) and who is worried about their financial security. Think about those poor people in HAITI, you scream.
My own difficulties don't matter to you, so why in god's name should I care about anyone elses. That's the biggest lesson I took from your two posts. Since you have the leisure time and the money to do so, I'll leave of worrying about suffering in third world cultures to people like you.
I, however, have exactly $8 in my checking account, which could feed a village in Thailand I'm sure, but will barely buy me lunch for two days, to last me until next payday, after car insurance, student loans, health insurance, rent, utilities, etc. Gas went up twenty cents at my local gas station so there's a good chance I'm going to be pushing my car home next Thursday night. But I don't want to whine.
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Brightstar
[Read the article: Danica Patrick makes sports history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My mother was in the Air Force back in the friggin fifties. I have whole branches of my family who serve in the millitary and the highest ranking of these (The Colonel) is a female.
All of the women consider themselves feminists and yes, they do put themselves on the line every day to protect mine and your freedom, so to speak. The fact that my 40 year old black female cousin has risen so high in the millitary is a source of pride for me and mine, which I won't apologize for; I'm also proud of her brother who is a JAG lawyer. I never wanted to join the millitary, mostly because I don't have the temperment for it (really I don't) but I respect anyone, male or female, who gives it a go.
Some of the things you say are just so unfair. There is certainly a schism in feminism between those peace loving pacifist war is evil types and women like me an Le Castor who think a woman should be able to do whatever the heck she wants. Because like men, we are complicated and have different opinions. As much as some feminists (and men like you who like to deride us) would like there to be, there is no feminist orthodoxy we must all ascribe to.
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@Mickey Kovars
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you ever stop to think that maybe the reason Obama isn't denouncing Rev. Wright is because he actually likes him as a person? That maybe he doesn't want to hurt the man who gave him a home away from home? Even if he doesn't agree with everything he says? I know that it's the political thing to do, to reject everybody and anything that doesn't toe ones ideological line, but it's not something we do in our personal lives and I don't know if I can back a canidate who is so quick to cut people off who have actually done good things for them.
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Cythera45
[Read the article: The return of the Rev. Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Weren't you a Hillary supporter when you started posting on Salon? I mean, did you change your mind or were you just a troll all along (possibly paid by the Reublican party) who started posting on these boards so as to raise a ruckus?
If you weren't a Hillary supporter, I don't see why you didn't say that in the first place.
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To everyone asking why Obama is denouncing Wright now....
[Read the article: Obama: "I am outraged"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's my take on it:
Obama has said he doesn't agree with a lot of what Wright says already. However, Wright countered that Obama really agreed with him but was just pandering to white folks.
And for everyone who says Obama had 20 years to distance himself from Wright; I seriously doubt every sermon Wright gave was about AIDS, left brain/right brain nonsense (which I agree with Elephantam is patently ridiculous. I mean, judging by Wright's own skin color, he shows that many blacks in this country or anything but 100% black, so how could this be genetically true) or about how wonderful Farakhan is/ was. I do think that Farakhan has gotten a bit of a raw deal from comments made in the 1980's, which if I remember correctly, he apologized for and actually has tried to move past. The Nation of Islam has been the black bogeyman for so long in this country, even though the Nation of Islam has done more harm to other black people (like that Oakland journalist gunned down by Lake Merritt or even the assasination of Malcolm X) than to white people. It's like racists love to trot them out as an example of how evil black people can be if we don't watch out. How many acts of terrorism have been supported by the Nation of Islam? Oh, that's right, none.
But I digress...