Radical and Controversial

[NOWorNEVER]

I don't think special treatment should be given to obese people, especially handicapped stickers.

[Dionysus]

PLIGGA NEASE!!!

No need to insult two entire regions of people!

Originally posted by enigma_AKA
True indeed, everyone IS brainwashed to a certain extent!
But when you've got people in the midwest and south (both of which I found, have states that have the lowest IQ's--GO FIGURE! --voted for Bush this and previous election) concerned more about morality then the issues that will detriment the US for years to come (spending on social programs, the not-so-fiscal fiscal policy and so on), I'll say that there is some SERIOUS brainwashing going on....or maybe they are really that stupid! The US has already, through a policy of isolation bad policies and I-am-better-then-you-therefore-I-don't-need-you-rhetoric gradually lessening madour status as the hegemon we 'd like to think we are, or THE ULTIMATE superpower. Simply put, we're already becoming the laughing stock of the international body (fighting a war on "terror", no less---how do you fight something so abstract? Can you fight a war on stupidity, perhaps? A war on social decay?) and we're going to succumb to a pathetic position with no clout.

enigma_AKA

[ladygreek]

Hmmmm. The midwest states of MN, IL, MI, and WI all went Blue.

[Im_just_me]

Originally posted by NOWorNEVER
I don't think special treatment should be given to obese people, especially handicapped stickers.

What about those who are pre-dispositioned that way? I have a friend who is classified as morbidly obese and has been that way since we were 13 years old. She has tried diet after diet and nothing works for her. Last week, she had gastric bypass surgery so she can curb her eating and make the effort to lose weight healthy. So, are you saying that even though "some"(because I know that everyone doesn't) people make the effort, they shouldn't be given a little help while they try to improve their health?

[enigma_AKA]

Meh, it IS radical and controversial at the same time...but it's still what I think. And when I included the midwest, I meant to specify the MID, more like Kansas, Missouri, and include far west and South. Do I mean that EVERYONE from those regions is stupid? No! Do I think that the majority of the people from these states that participated in votiing are misguided in voting based on morality? Yes! It's radical, but then again, people think voting for Kerry and being part of the too-left liberal is radical as well. But then again, it's all what you alone think...

And if you fall into a state that has an overall lower IQ, it doesn't mean that YOU are stupid, it just means that you fall into a state with an overall lower IQ (maybe everyone else is stupid-maybe there is a brain drain-maybe those high IQ having eastern states REALLY ARE intellectual elitists). I don't mean to insult EVERYONE from the area (hell Michigan falls into that category, and I know I know better then that), but if the shoe fits then wear it.

enigma_AKA

[Confucius]

I HATE IT when gay people compare their struggle with the Civil Rights movement ( I know this was mentioned already)...

I HATE IT when Asian or Middle Eastern Americans compare their struggle with ours and compare what they are or have been through to with the Civil Rights Movement...NOT!!!

I HATE when black men date white women BUT love it when black women date white men...I believe it kills the stereotype that black women are not wanted...

I WILL QUIT MY JOB AND DEDICATE MY LIFE TO PROSTESTING IF GEORGE W. BUSH INVADES IRAN!!!!


(I like this post, I need to come back more often )

[sasharala]

Originally posted by Confucius
I HATE IT when gay people compare their struggle with the Civil Rights movement ( I know this was mentioned already)...

I HATE IT when Asian or Middle Eastern Americans compare their struggle with ours and compare what they are or have been through to with the Civil Rights Movement...NOT!!!

I HATE when black men date white women BUT love it when black women date white men...I believe it kills the stereotype that black women are not wanted...

I WILL QUIT MY JOB AND DEDICATE MY LIFE TO PROSTESTING IF GEORGE W. BUSH INVADES IRAN!!!!


(I like this post, I need to come back more often )

My name is sasharala, and I support this post.

[NOWorNEVER]

Originally posted by Im_just_me
What about those who are pre-dispositioned that way? I have a friend who is classified as morbidly obese and has been that way since we were 13 years old. She has tried diet after diet and nothing works for her. Last week, she had gastric bypass surgery so she can curb her eating and make the effort to lose weight healthy. So, are you saying that even though "some"(because I know that everyone doesn't) people make the effort, they shouldn't be given a little help while they try to improve their health?

I honestly don't believe morbidly obese people are pre-dispositioned. I don't believe people are born with a gene that makes their weight shoot up to 400, 500, and 600 pounds. I think weight gain with staggering numbers like these can be attributed to overeating and being out of control with eating habits. It may sound cruel, but I do not sympathize with people who have become immoble due to their weight. To me that just screams laziness. I don't sympathize with those who have let themselves get so large that they no longer have ankles or those who are bedridden or those who have to be weighed on a truck scale or those who have to buy two plane tickets for themselves or those who have to be hosed down to be cleaned. I think there comes a point where you have to take responsibilty for your actions, so it makes me mad when extremely fat people collect disabilty. My beliefs probably wouldn't apply to your friend if you said she was at least making an effort. My sentiments are aimed toward the gluttonous and lazy.

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by NOWorNEVER
I don't think special treatment should be given to obese people, especially handicapped stickers.

And further I think these people should be charged extra on the airplane when they take up two seats!

[Steeltrap]

^^
Southwest Airlines makes some obese-type folks buy an extra seat. Very controversial policy.

[WhirlwindTNX]

I think that anyone speaking a dialect and refers to something but no one knows what you mean (e.g. gum band = rubber band ) should be brainwashed into speaking correctly......

[Virtual Violet]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
My controversial thoughts:

There are very few eligible and desirable black men (read: upper middle class and upper class) and those few should marry black women.

I am virulently opposed to long-term welfare dependency. I don't like having my tax $$$$ going to people who stay on it generation after generation. If I'm going to pay taxes, I'd rather it go to education.

Ditto, especially on the welfare dependency issue. As a single "working stiff" its annoying as hell to sit there trying to scrape up $40-$50 out of my bi-weekly paycheck to buy groceries when the chick AND HER MAMA in front of me are buying 2 baskets full of groceries on their LINK cards with their nails and "hurr" did. Plus they get cash back!!

[StrangeFruit]

I'm at black republicans that are clearly "Uncle Tomin" their way to the top.

"Successful" (depending on your definition) black folks that look down on not-so-successful black folks. Or those that have a superiority complex.

[Love_Spell_6]

It amazes me how liberals/dems are so mad that they are threatening to move out of the US (as if people really care LOL) because they didn't get their way this election..as if [i]their[i] way is the right way. They've been running social institutions, programs etc. for years and look where it has gotten us. The so called real black folks are calling black folks who voted Republican Uncle Toms and brainwashed etc. but again..their secular ways haven't worked for years..but they still want to keep doing things the same old way..the blind leading the blind..truly sad.

My radical and controversial viewpoint is that everyone that has said they want to leave the US because Dubya won should be given free airfare and moving costs and forced out!! I really wish these folks would L-E-A-V-E!

[Dionysus]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
It amazes me how liberals/dems are so mad that they are threatening to move out of the US (as if people really care LOL) because they didn't get their way this election..as if [i]their[i] way is the right way. They've been running social institutions, programs etc. for years and look where it has gotten us. The so called real black folks are calling black folks who voted Republican Uncle Toms and brainwashed etc. but again..their secular ways haven't worked for years..but they still want to keep doing things the same old way..the blind leading the blind..truly sad.

My radical and controversial viewpoint is that everyone that has said they want to leave the US because Dubya won should be given free airfare and moving costs and forced out!! I really wish these folks would L-E-A-V-E!

Hah...if it is true, it's true! Black folks who vote republican for religious reasons are brainwashed! Co-sign to lovelyivy's post earlier in this thread about religion being a crutch to some people. How do you really know if it was religion that helped black people rise decades ago? You know it is possible that they could have done it on their own. I believe if people over-rely on religion, they will under-rely own their own capabilities...and how far will that get you?