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Flint · 12-13-2006, 02:03 PM

Incidentally, one might also learn the difference between Sunni and Shiite...

12-13-2006, 03:35 PM

Remember... if it is a government agency/committee it is actually the opposite of it's name.
Intelligence Committee = room full of morons dictating futile hate policy.

It always works.

barefoot serpent · 12-13-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by yesman065

The fact that he couldn't distinguish between "Shiite" and "Sunni" is unconscionable.

I always thought it was being able to tell between "Shiite" and "Shinola"...

yesman065 · 12-13-2006, 09:12 PM

Thanks b.s. I knew I could count on you.

skysidhe · 12-14-2006, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

Incidentally, one might also learn the difference between Sunni and Shiite...

Yes I do mean cultural.

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

OK...let's start off with "I'm not a Republican." (Or a rebublican.)

Now, with that out of the way...

What does "sensitivity training" mean to me? It means somebody has decided somebody else is insufficiently politically correct, and is in a position to try to impose their own values and point-of-view, while whitewashing it as pedagogy.

I went to look up the difference between Suni and Shiite to try gaining some understanding. I failed. It is complicated. This is sensitive. I can barley get my point across when I am understanding something but not this!

Then I saw something that brought it home in a simple way. Perhaps more snickerish to some but is this the 'sensitivity training' do we really want to be snickering in the face of our ignorance ?

What is the answer here?

Is this child...
an Arab or a Kurd,
Moslem or Christian,
a Shiite or a Sunni?

Shawnee123 · 12-14-2006, 12:27 PM

I don't know...which one looks like a box with a red x in it?

Clodfobble · 12-14-2006, 03:05 PM

A red cross? Must be a Christian!

skysidhe · 12-14-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I don't know...which one looks like a box with a red x in it?

silly, you can't tell a childs faith by seeing him/her anyway. That was the point.

Torrere · 12-15-2006, 06:54 PM

but "Arab or Kurd" is an ethnic distinction, which might be readily distinguished by someone familiar with the region. Although the difference between Shi'a and Sunni is a religious question, the I think that the majority of the Shi'ites are from the old Persian empire. Christianity and Islam, despite colonisation and ministry, are both largely regional phenomena.

If you see a child somewhere, you could probably make a very good guess whether they are Arab or Kurd, and whether they will become Muslim or Christian, Shi'ite or Sunni.

MaggieL · 12-23-2006, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

do we really want to be snickering in the face of our ignorance ?

Those who offer us "sensitivity training" suffer from the presumption that we are more ignorant than they and in need of their training.

I actually know the difference between Shia and Sunni. Kerry is a pompous supercilious preppy asshole and has been such for a long, long time.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-26-2006, 11:45 PM

Kerry is one of the several senior Democrats who keep on display exactly what is wrong with the Democratic Party. There are others who do their part to make this clear also.

The Jackasses aren't getting a dime from me.

I remember some gun people sending envelopes containing, in cash, two cents U.S. to the Clinton legal defense fund. Can't recall if I followed this example or not... I might have, I didn't at all care for Ole Possum Head... but quite a fistful of such envelopes originated at that gun rally.

12-27-2006, 02:15 AM

Oh, yeeeaahhhh... if he had won we would have been in heaps of trouble by now!

Aliantha · 12-27-2006, 06:33 PM

lol...*nothing more to say about this little stouch*

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-31-2006, 11:33 PM

'Cept perhaps what a "stouch" might be...

Aliantha · 01-01-2007, 05:34 PM

argument/fight/scuffle

12-13-2006, 02:03 PM	#16
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12-14-2006, 12:27 PM	#21
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I don't know...which one looks like a box with a red x in it? __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

12-26-2006, 11:45 PM	#26
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Kerry is one of the several senior Democrats who keep on display exactly what is wrong with the Democratic Party. There are others who do their part to make this clear also. The Jackasses aren't getting a dime from me. I remember some gun people sending envelopes containing, in cash, two cents U.S. to the Clinton legal defense fund. Can't recall if I followed this example or not... I might have, I didn't at all care for Ole Possum Head... but quite a fistful of such envelopes originated at that gun rally. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-27-2006, 06:33 PM	#28
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	lol...nothing more to say about this little stouch __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

12-31-2006, 11:33 PM	#29
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	'Cept perhaps what a "stouch" might be... __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-13-2006, 03:35 PM	#17
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Remember... if it is a government agency/committee it is actually the opposite of it's name. Intelligence Committee = room full of morons dictating futile hate policy. It always works.

12-13-2006, 09:12 PM	#19
yesman065 Banned - Self Imposed Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,847	Thanks b.s. I knew I could count on you.

12-14-2006, 03:05 PM	#22
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	A red cross? Must be a Christian!

12-15-2006, 06:54 PM	#24
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	but "Arab or Kurd" is an ethnic distinction, which might be readily distinguished by someone familiar with the region. Although the difference between Shi'a and Sunni is a religious question, the I think that the majority of the Shi'ites are from the old Persian empire. Christianity and Islam, despite colonisation and ministry, are both largely regional phenomena. If you see a child somewhere, you could probably make a very good guess whether they are Arab or Kurd, and whether they will become Muslim or Christian, Shi'ite or Sunni.

12-27-2006, 02:15 AM	#27
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Oh, yeeeaahhhh... if he had won we would have been in heaps of trouble by now!

01-01-2007, 05:34 PM	#30
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	argument/fight/scuffle __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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