I cannot believe how often DUmmies start threads that ignore the most basic of all DUmp fundamentals:
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 11:56 AM
Syzygy321 (356 posts)
An apology. A concern. And an invitation.
Last night I had a post hidden. (My first, so pop some champagne!)
In brief: I put up a post titled "Isis and Zionism: Links revealed!". I linked to a Saudi daily I read regularly, the Saudi Gazette. The article I linked to was insane - yet sadly typical of what one sees in SG, and (by my experience) in line with typical Arab theories about where their problems originate.
Basically, the writer said ISIS was created by zionists, western intelligence agencies, and Freemasons. Yes, Freemasons! That was why I posted it: it was so nutty that I thought it would make everyone gape, then laugh hysterically...and finally, think about what it means. The article presents a Saudi rebuttal to the (obvious) question of whether KSA-style Islamism and KSA riches are driving groups like ISIS.
Public Service Announcement: The Arab press, also Fars (Iran) and Huuriyet (Turkey) is chock full of nonsense peddled to audiences who are eager to lap it up and who, yes, believe it. (I am related to some of them, is how I know.) I am shocked and disgusted that some (liberals?) here have apparently embraced their spew. Ugh. And WTF?
Finally, the invitation: Please think about reading Saudi Gazette and other mainstream sources from all over the place, just to see how other people are being raised to see the world. I especially like SG because the editor is a female and is stealthily putting out stories that shine a light of women's problems in KSA.
I am new here, so forgive me for saying this... but what I see is an appalling amount of binary thinking on this site (eg: Blacks good so all cops bad. Democrats good so all Repubs evil. Drug war bad so all drug criminals pitied. Israel the devil, Arabs the victims.)
I think that kind of black/white cartoonish thinking is an enemy to be resisted. So: i invite you to please read foreign papers - and let them open your eyes to all the BS getting slung by every side.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027073579#post6 The good thing is that whenever a DUmmy forgets, he is quickly reminded that no matter what it is, it's always all about nadin:
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 12:37 PM
nadinbrzezinski (140,542 posts)
6. I also monitor the Saudi press
though I am far more inclined to read the Qatari press. I just prefer their writing style... so be it.
I would never, ever, post a story here from them. Why? People cannot see the value of seeing what people think abroad. This game of blaming the zionists for everything has been going on for way too many years. There are many things I will not post at DU... hell, it is bad enough that I will not post my own Primary coverage of US Elections. You will learn that there are clear limits as to what you can post on a hyper partisan site.
Personally I read (and watch) a lot of foreign media... and watching the US through other people's eyes is also very useful. We are far from ahem exceptional or saints.
This is actually a great thread, but far too long to bring over here.
A handful of DUmpettes think they've sniffed out a lousy freeper troll, and pounce all over her.
The suspected troll has about a hundred IQ points on the accusers and wipes the floor with them.
The coon-bit lesbo DUmmy Aerows gets her ass handed to her.
