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Comment For the slow (Score 1) 1097

It's about pissing on beliefs. an analogy is an analogy. I'm sure you can choose a different analogy that makes more sense to you if you try hard enough instead of arguing two or three levels removed from the actual issue.
Anyway, here's a clue. The bait is in Texas so unclean American blood can be spilled instead of clean Dutch blood. Wilders is not on your side. The guys that want to shoot him are not on your side either.

Comment Re:Way to get waaaay off the point (Score 1) 628

Were the sexual comments directed towards the person in the article?

Does it matter? It was probably enough to potentially drive kids away as the author is suggesting.

Is this an individual teenager complaining

The incident appears to have happened so we don't need a statistically significant number of complaints, just that it happened is enough for it to be used as an example to illustrate a point as is done in the article.

What facts exist that point to the Lena image being the exclusive cause of the "boys' sexual comments?"

The chain is events is pretty obvious, whether other incidents are going to happen or not this one was caused by a preventable fuckup by a teacher and the author then took steps to try to prevent it happening again.

The whole thing is written by a teen

Which is why some of the attacks on her by posters other than yourself are deplorable. Young or not, she's getting hassles in a computer class that have nothing to do with the subject and I think she has a point with the source of it. Maybe think of it like a missing bit of railing on a platform - an obvious accident waiting to happen, easy to fix, so why not fix it?

and the choice of Lena's image in particular

The problem is the teacher asking the students to search for it instead of merely providing the image which would be the professional thing to do. Allowing teenage boys to find the source and then bully other kids based on the baggage associated with Playboy is the unprofessional thing to do IMHO. I had enough trouble with first year engineering boys bullying the few girls in my classes so I think I can imagine what high school boys would be like in this situation.

It's a pity this issue has been blown so far out of proportion to be a "Friday night fight" about women in IT and engineering.

Comment Re:"xenophobic fascist" (Score 1) 1097

Muslims and Arabs and Africans are free to practice their unique ways in their own countries. There is simply no reason for those people to be in Europe

Consider those words and then consider the vast majority of migrants to the colonies in America. The entire place was based on being able to run things differently to the way the Catholic and English churches wanted people to run their lives.

Comment Re:Yet that's what they are doing (Score 1) 1097

It's all fun and games until their trolling incites someone to successfully blow up some innocent kids that have been dragged along by their idiot parents. Even if it's just the idiot parents that get blown up it's a stupidly high price for the sake of stirring up a bit of hate for fun.
At best they are fanning the flames and turning people who wouldn't consider joining extremists into being extremists.

Comment Re:Attacking me now are you? (Score 1) 1097

To avoid posts like yours I put the following on my first post as a sort of intelligence test:

I am in no way defending either the loud xenophobic fascist Wilders or anyone that wants to take a shot at him.

Guess how you did in the test? I don't know whether it's attention span that let you down, but for some reason you've been arguing with a strawman all this time despite the obvious signpost above.

Recalibrate. I'm sure you're not a stupid or bad person... just, recalibrate.

Rather arrogant, especially when you didn't even pay attention to what my view on the topic is!

Comment Re:Attacking me now are you? (Score 0) 1097

It's quite simple. "Deliberate pissing on beliefs" is generally good when the beliefs are crap

You should note that the belief you say is crap is the belief of not worshipping idols - one which you probably share. In my mind the crap is the extremes it gets taken to and how they react about it (eg. murder).
Good job in blowing a molehill of a post that was really about deliberately poking the bear into a mountain over other stuff because apparently it wasn't interesting enough. The personal attack with "You need to get your... *something* re-calibrated" is a nice touch.

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