I received this e-mail today from someone who used to work at my office and keeps trying to e-mail people here using their wrong address so it comes to me. I think it is the most intolerant thing I’ve seen in a while. Obviously some people think it is simply patriotism. What do you think?
Maybe this should go to the Pit.
Why are there still people on stamps?
REMEMBER the PEOPLE who killed the other people?
REMEMBER the PEOPLE who enslaved the other people?
REMEMBER the PEOPLE who attempted to exterminate a whole race of people?
REMEMBER the PEOPLE who perpetrated atrocities on the other people?
Now the USPS REMEMBERS and HONORS people with a first class holiday postage stamp.
REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT any stamps that depict PEOPLE. To use this tamp would be a slap in the face to all those people who were victims of PEOPLE.
REMEMBER to pass this along to every person you know.
This is loony. We have Christmas stamps, Hannukah stamps, why not a Muslim holiday stamp? You can see the stamp if you wish at usps.com
Remember all the Muslims who DIDN’T attack the Twin Towers…etc.
Should we boycott Christmas stamps because ot Tim McVeigh?
Ooop, shoulda checked Snopes first; they’re all over it:http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/boycotts/eidstamp.asp. I’d still like to hear others’ opinions, though.
I agree that it’s the worst kind of intolerant, ignorant racist bullshit I’ve seen in a long while. These people want to ban a stamp because it refers to Muslim religious holiday?
Why do people like this automatically equate any terrorist atrocity with Islam? Yes, the terrorists called themselves Muslims, but to blame all of the believers of an entire faith for the actions of a depraved few is just…twisted.
Even to think of boycotting the stamp makes a person a racist shit IMHO. Some terrorists bombed the WTC, not all muslims, just like some Americans, some British etc etc do all sorts of crappy things.
Since when is it racist to hate a particular religion. What is racist would be to presume that “Muslim” must mean “Arab”.
The scary thing is that I’ll lay good money that whoever wrote the original POS troll-mail worships a God who’s been cited in the murders of others.
When you associate that religion’s followers as murderers.
He’s technically right, bigotry is a more appropriate word. Of course, race is such a goofy and ill-defined concept anyway…
But more to the point, it’s ignorant, stupid, prejudiced bullshit. Also notice the presumption in the letter that assume Muslims can’t be Americans. That tells you right there it’s not patriotism - it’s just ass-backward bigotry and stereotyping. Same kind of thing demagogues and terrorists engage in the whole world over.
I think I see stupid e-mails like this all the time. Sometimes it must just be adolescents (or their adult intellectual equivalents) who think it’s funny to try to shock people. Sometimes it’s whack-os who actually believe it. The internet is littered with thousands of sites like this. Better to just ignore it.
Hate with no debate.
To the Pit with it.
OK, if I boycott the Muslim stamp on the basis that I object to having any sort of religious imagery on government paraphernalia, does that make me a bigot? :dubious:
As an addendum to my las post, I really don’t care if an Islamic image is on a stamp - as long as it’s a positive image. Same thing with Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, etc. Just playing Devil’s Advocate.
yawn
I certainly wouldn’t open any mail I received that had a Muslim stamp on it. What if it contained the anthrax???
Ow. Stop it. Ow. No, really OW! Stop hitting me!
Man, I expect so much more from shit people forwared via email. Don’t they know that’s a sacred medium?!
Yes! Let’s ban all religions which any nutjob used as an excuse for horrific acts, starting with Islam, Christianity, Wicca… wait, didn’t the USSR try banning all religion and it didn’t work?
But we can do it! (OK, FTR, I’d be happy to let all religion go, but I’ll let anyone believe what they want so long as they don’t bomb anyone because of it. But I’d keep the holidays stamps.)
The two best quotes from the snopes article:
Depends on why you do so. If you do so from principle that the US government ought not honor any religion at all since that would be a form of “establishment” (albeit a truly broad stretch of the concept), not a bigot. If you do so because you’re one of those Born Again Fundamentalist Atheists, then you’re already a bigot by definition.