It explains the situation in a typical marketing framework. When you have two sides of a debate you take "your" side and you canonize them. They're the righteous warrior fighting for truth, justice and all that is good. Their intentions are as pure as the wind-driven snow.
You take the "other" side. They're the devil. They'll kill your children. They'll make you use Windows Vista. And that's the 24 hour news cycle. j Drsolly wrote: > O ... K ... and how would they explain the situation, I'm guessing that it > would be completely different from your explanation? > > Side question ... why do you folks think that Obama is black? I'm no > expert in such things, but to me he looks as much white as he is black. > Just looking at his picture. > > And I went to Wiki, and looked at a picture of his mother, and she looks > white to me. > > So how come he's defined as black? > > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > > >> Date sent: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:05:48 +0100 (BST) >> From: Drsolly <[email protected]> >> >> >>> I can tell there's sarcasm or irony there, by the tone of voice, but other >>> than >>> that, I cannot work out what this posting is about. >>> >>> Could someone give me some pukka gen on this? >>> >> One has to go back a bit: >> >> a) Person of colour runs for US Prez. >> >> b) US says "We are not bigotted or racist, no, not us!" >> >> c) Person of colour wins. >> >> d) Proportion of US population goes seriously flaky, claiming person of >> colour >> was not born in US, is trying to kill all US grandmothers by providing >> medical >> treatment, etc. Commodity prices for tin-foil start to creep upward. >> >> e) Prez of colour takes interest in education, and states intention of >> giving pep >> talk to students at beginning of school year. >> >> f) Proportion of US population, terrified at the thought of someone >> encouraging >> students to learn something during the school year, tries all possible means >> to >> prevent said pep talk from happening. >> >> (In Chris' case, the school board said that the telecast could be shown, but >> only if >> all parents signed off permission for their youngsters to attend, said >> permission to >> be publicized and obtained during a holiday weekend.) (In opposition to the >> rest of >> the world, which celebrates labour holiday at the beginning of the summer >> holiday >> period, North Am reminds workers that the next day is when they have to go >> *back* to work ...) >> >> ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) >> [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] >> I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal. But if it >> is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper. >> - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, March 30, 1988 >> http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm >> http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade >> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ >> http://twitter.com/NoticeBored >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
