Mr Loon
Having met you once briefly I am laughing very hard at the image of your wild uluation.

*click*
( djtrialprice, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:19, 1 reply)

It was a pretty good howl.
In truth the only reason I did it was because I knew how she would react and was taking the opportunity to poke at her a little. And sure enough, she bit hard.

The thing that makes it funny is that she's a rabid atheist and is very critical of religious types in private, and has been known to strike a dramatic pose and thunder mock gospel in the manner of Chuck Heston when describing going to church with someone she knew. She has considerable contempt for Christian fundies- which I tend to share- but snarls if anyone makes a joke about any other religion, because it's Not Politically Correct and Might Be Offensive To Someone.

If she wishes to be politically correct, that's fine. Just be consistent with it. Don't get all high and mighty with me when you've been making cutting remarks about white Christian males, because if those same comments had been made about any other group there would have been embassies burned amid harpy screeches and day-long harangues. I have explained this to her repeatedly, but she can't see her own double standards.

Hence me needling her whenever I get the chance.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:31, closed)

My sister-in-law
Is the absolute spitting image of "Millie Tant" as portrayed in Viz (apart from the lesbianism, she's married to my bro and has sprogged 4 times) including the so-right-on-it's-nearly-off-the-map political attitudes.

She nearly blew her brain out like Millie at the last big family get-together. I played "special Ed, special olympics, grandfather die" etc while she was being told what South Africa is and was actually like, as opposed to what her hand-knitted-organic-tofu-wearing friends had surmised from what they'd read - by a white South African who was schooled there (in a mixed race school) and spoke three of the native languages.

White, middle-class activists piss me off.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 0:05, closed)

I think you're missing something here
"snarls if anyone makes a joke about any other religion, because it's Not Politically Correct and Might Be Offensive To Someone"

The point is, a lot of time when people are attacking what-they-say-is-Islam, what they're actually doing is attacking people for being weird foreign-looking darkies - not just for holding silly religious beliefs.

I know, from reading your posts on B3TA over years, that you're not doing that. But a huge proportion of attacks on 'Islam' in mainstream US (and European, to a slightly lesser extent) culture, from Matt & Tre all the way down into the vilest recesses of right-wing blogging and email forwards, are. And so it's hardly surprising that that criticism is perceived differently from someone like you or I who's culturally Christian (despite being actually atheist in both cases) criticising Christianity.

As a white person of Christian descent, you have more leeway to be offensive against white people of Christian descent and not be misunderstood as a bigot than you have leeway to be offensive against non-white people not of Christian descent...
(stalinism, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 17:25, closed)