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This is just fantastic news! I stare at the rising Freedom Tower out my window as I write this, and there's a sense of closure to what was a rude awakening to a
by dr_ 15y ago
This is just fantastic news! I stare at the rising Freedom Tower out my window as I write this, and there's a sense of closure to what was a rude awakening to a new century.
From Andrew Sullivan on Daily Beast:
"12.08 pm Can I say how deeply moving it is that a man named Barack Hussein Obama gave the order for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden?
The pre-eminent symbol of our the multicultural, multiracial society of the future defeated the pre-eminent symbol of the darkest, bleakest throwback to medieval religious fanaticism. Im not ashamed to use the following language: Good defeated evil. And hope rekindles again."
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- marshray 15y ago"12.08 pm Can I say how deeply moving it is that a man named Barack Hussein Obama gave the order for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden?" That's perhaps the most superficial thing I've ever heard.
- ubercore 15y agoIs it? His point is about multiculturalism in our society, and using his name is a pithy (and, imo, appropriate) way to make that point.
- marshray 15y agoI didn't read the piece by Andrew Sullivan that's being quoted, so I don't know what his point really is. It was taken out of context in the post above. It reads to me like he's taking a person's foreign sounding family-given name as a proxy for something which he claims is deeply meaningful. To me, that's the very definition of 'superficial'. When it's done with skin color it's called 'racism'.
- ubercore 15y agoHaven't read it either, just basing it on "The pre-eminent symbol of our the multicultural, multiracial society", and I'm not sure why you mentioned racism here