# silly, silly terrorists in Paris **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 10, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494 "2015-01-10T19:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/21 "2015-01-11T00:39:24Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > The Jews are evil, homosexuality is subhuman, women must subordinate to men, and leaving the religion forced on you at birth is worthy of death. > > My GOD did I misappropriate Political Correctness. I suppose you have. I can’t tell, but it seems you think PC is another word for “liberal,” but it’s not. PC is enforcing the orthodoxy of the group, often focused on using the right words or not uttering certain ideas. Conservative groups have their own PC language too, or Star Wars fans (say you like the Christmas Special), or this message board – any group does. These terrorists literally want to kill people for not conforming to their standards. Depictions of Muhammad are super non-PC to them. Most of the time when people complain about PC in Western cultures it’s boycotts or being fired from your job or people harrumphing at you. The liberal PC police aren’t coming to chop off your head. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/22 "2015-01-11T02:16:02Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I am both Mac and Android. What does that say about me? That you like both snails and oysters? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/23 "2015-01-11T02:31:37Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > I am definitely not on the same page as Pizza guy. As usual, most of you either cannot read or wantonly pervert any word, phrase or sentence to light your personal fires. You have no idea how turned on I am right now. > [@](#): > > But clearly many here not only drank the kool aid, but loved it and live on it. Flavor Aid, thank you very much, you bougie bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/24 "2015-01-11T02:32:38Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > And there are no websites I can go to which preach about these dangers! Here, look at all these websites and tell me where I can speak freely at all! > > [**1) Fox News:**](http://www.foxnews.com/) > [**2) Wall Street Journal:**](http://online.wsj.com/) > [**3) The Drudge Report:**](http://drudgereport.com/) > [**4) The Blaze:**](http://www.theblaze.com/) > [**5) New York Post:**](http://www.nypost.com/) > [**6) Breitbart:**](http://www.breitbart.com/) > [**7) Newsmax:**](http://newsmax.com/) > [**8) WorldNetDaily:**](http://worldnetdaily.com/) > [**9) Independent Journal Review**](http://www.ijreview.com/) > [**10) The Daily Caller:**](http://dailycaller.com/) > [**11) The Washington Times:**](http://washingtontimes.com/) > [**12) National Review:**](http://nationalreview.com/) > [**13) TownHall:**](http://townhall.com/) > [**14) Free Republic:**](http://freerepublic.com/) > [**15) PJ Media/Instapundit:**](http://pajamasmedia.com/) > [**16) Cybercast News Service:**](http://www.cnsnews.com/) > [**17) Investor’s Business Daily:**](http://www.investors.com/default.htm) > [**18) Hot Air:**](http://hotair.com/) > [**19) Twitchy:**](http://twitchy.com/) > [**20) The Weekly Standard:**](http://weeklystandard.com/) > [**21) The Washington Examiner:**](http://washingtonexaminer.com/) > [**22) Newsbusters:**](http://newsbusters.org/) > [**23) The Heritage Foundation:**](http://heritage.org/) > [**24) Reason:**](http://www.reason.com/) > [**25) The Washington Free Beacon:**](http://freebeacon.com/) > [**26) Lew Rockwell:**](http://lewrockwell.com/) > [**27) Glenn Beck:**](http://glennbeck.com/) > [**28) Watts Up With That?**](http://wattsupwiththat.com/) > [**29) The Western Center for Journalism:**](http://www.westernjournalism.com/) > [**30) The Rush Limbaugh Show:**](http://rushlimbaugh.com) > [**31) The American Thinker:**](http://www.americanthinker.com/index.php) > [**32) Daily Paul:**](http://www.dailypaul.com/) > [**33) Lifesitenews:**](http://www.lifesitenews.com/) > [**34) The Tea Party News Network:**](http://www.tpnn.com/) > [**35) Bizpac Review:**](http://www.bizpacreview.com/) > [**36) Freedom Outpost:**](http://freedomoutpost.com/) > [**37) Truth Revolt:**](http://www.truthrevolt.org/) > [**38) Life News:**](http://lifenews.com/) > [**39) Chicks On The Right:**](http://chicksontheright.com/) > [**40) The Gateway Pundit:**](http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/) > [**41) Lucianne:**](http://lucianne.com/) > [\*\*42) The Right Scoop: \*\*](http://www.therightscoop.com/) > [**43) Redstate:**](http://www.redstate.com/) > [**44) Power Line:**](http://powerlineblog.com/) > [**45) Front Page Magazine:**](http://frontpagemag.com/) > [\*\*46) Weasel Zippers: \*\*](http://www.weaselzippers.us/) > [\*\*47) Personal Liberty Digest: \*\*](http://personalliberty.com/) > [**48) Right Wing News:**](http://www.rightwingnews.com/) > [**49) Canada Free Press:**](http://canadafreepress.com/) > [\*\*50) The New American: \*\*](http://thenewamerican.com/) > [**51) RedFlagNews:**](http://www.redflagnews.com/) > [**52) Vox Day:**](http://voxday.blogspot.com/) > [**53) Mr. Conservative**](http://www.mrconservative.com/) > [**54) The Ludwig von Mises Institute:**](http://mises.org/) > [**55) Clash Daily:**](http://clashdaily.com/) > [**56) Bad Blue:**](http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/trendr8.htm) > [**57) Joe For America:**](http://joeforamerica.com/) > [**58) Human Events Online:**](http://www.humanevents.com/) > [**59) The Federalist:**](http://thefederalist.com/) > [**60) Ace of Spades HQ/My Pet Jawa/Rhymes With Right:**](http://ace.mu.nu/) > [**61) Rare:**](http://rare.us/) > [**62) GOP Briefing Room:**](http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/) > [**63) The Black Sphere**](http://theblacksphere.net/) > [**64) The American Spectator:**](http://www.spectator.org/) > [**65) The Cato Journal:**](http://cato.org/) > [\*\*66) Free Patriot: \*\*](http://freepatriot.org/) > [**67) Pamela Geller:**](http://pamelageller.com/) > [**68) Pat Dollard:**](http://patdollard.com/) > [**69) Ann Coulter**](http://www.anncoulter.org/) > [**70) American Conservative:**](http://www.amconmag.com/) > [**71) Legal Insurrection:**](http://legalinsurrection.com/) > [**72) Michelle Malkin:**](http://michellemalkin.com/) > [**73) Steyn Online:**](http://steynonline.com) > [**74) Jihad Watch:**](http://www.jihadwatch.org/) > [**75) Commentary:**](http://www.commentarymagazine.com/) > [**76) USA Watchdog:**](http://usawatchdog.com/) > [**77) Freedomworks:**](http://www.freedomworks.org/) > [**78) Allen West:**](http://allenwestrepublic.com/) > [**79) Shoebat:**](http://shoebat.com/) > [**80) GOPUSA:**](http://gopusa.com/) > [**81) GOP.com:**](http://www.gop.com/) > [**82) Liberty Unyielding:**](http://libertyunyielding.com/) > [**83) Dick Morris:**](http://dickmorris.com/) > [**84) Americans for Tax Reform:**](http://www.atr.org/) > [\*\*85) RenewAmerica: \*\*](http://www.renewamerica.com/) > [**86) Day by Day:**](http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/) > [**87) The American Interest:**](http://www.the-american-interest.com/) > [**88) The Other McCain:**](http://theothermccain.com/) > [**89) Conservapedia:**](http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page) > [**90) Media Research Center:**](http://www.mrc.org/) > [**91) Guns Save Lives:**](http://gunssavelives.net/) > [**92) Bill O’Reilly:**](http://billoreilly.com/) > [**93) Althouse:**](http://althouse.blogspot.com/) > [**94) Vdare:**](http://vdare.com/) > [**95) Linkiest:**](http://linkiest.com/) > [**96) I Own the World:**](http://iowntheworld.com/) > [**97) Daniel Pipes:**](http://www.danielpipes.org/) > [**98) Sean Hannity:**](http://www.hannity.com/) > [**99) Debbie Schlussel:**](http://www.debbieschlussel.com) > [**100) News With Views:**](http://newswithviews.com/) > Also see, > [**The 100 Most Popular Conservative Websites For 2013**](http://www.rightwingnews.com/special/the-100-most-popular-conservative-websites-for-2013/) > > You see? It took me at least 3 and a half seconds to google the top 100 conservative websites of 2014 And it’s going to take 6 months and oceans of lotion to heal up your poor hands from having to type in all those URLs. I don’t even want to know what weasel [zippers.us](http://zippers.us) is selling. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/25 "2015-01-11T02:32:46Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > A calif. prof was accused of M.A. for correcting grammar and spelling errors in dissertations. Cite requested. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/26 "2015-01-11T02:35:20Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > I am definitely not on the same page as Pizza guy. As usual, most of you either cannot read or wantonly pervert any word, phrase or sentence to light your personal fires. > > But clearly many here not only drank the kool aid, but loved it and live on it. Given how thoroughly you poisoned the well on the very opening post, you can hardly blame people for choosing the koolaid instead. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/27 "2015-01-11T02:44:16Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Cite requested. [rul=[UCLA grad students stage sit-in during a class to protest what they see as racially hostile climate](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/25/ucla-grad-students-stage-sit-during-class-protest-what-they-see-racially-hostile)]Found it. There’s a lot going on under the hood here. As far as I can tell from what I’ve read, the complaints weren’t in particular about this prof, but about a climate, and some of his actions were used as examples. Only one of these actions involved a correction (of style, not grammar), and his correction was indeed a little questionable. (At the PhD level, a student who consistently capitalizes “Indigenous” is clearly making a stylistic choice and shouldn’t be corrected for that.) And though I wasn’t there, I’ve hung around online with people who talk about microaggression enough to know that it’s very likely their focus was on social forces and their effects on minorities, such that citing a single action shouldn’t be taken as an attack on the professor per se simply as an example illustrating those forces and their effects. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/28 "2015-01-11T03:04:08Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > I am both Mac and Android. What does that say about me? > [@elucidator](#): > > You are a robotic hamburger. Dun, dun! Dun, dun! I am Iron Mac! \m/\>.\<\m/ ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/29 "2015-01-11T03:04:42Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Right. I’d like to know how you define political correctness. I ask because people seem to have differing ideas about what that term means. Hell, I know some morans in my small town who think that the only reason saying racist crap in the local tavern is frowned upon is because it is “not politically correct”. You have no response for me? That’s ok. I have something for you. This girl is loco! ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h0ZUwrWBCRQ/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/h0ZUwrWBCRQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/30 "2015-01-11T03:15:28Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > I am definitely not on the same page as Pizza guy. As usual, most of you either cannot read or wantonly pervert any word, phrase or sentence to light your personal fires. > > But clearly many here not only drank the kool aid, but loved it and live on it. Nah, it’s mainly because you’re a fucking dimwit who can’t frame a coherent thought. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/31 "2015-01-11T03:16:25Z")
You’re tired of PC? Fox News is too, apparently. [Fox Host Wonders How to Spot “Bad Guys” Without Knowing the “Tone of Their Skin”](http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-01-09/fox-host-wonders-how-to-spot-bad-guys-without-knowing-the-tone-of-their-skin/). ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/32 "2015-01-11T03:21:35Z")
Amidst all the ranting, outrage, condemnation, and other assorted freaking out, I have discovered one thing that is amusing to me, at least a bit: a minority, in this case 3 or 4, people carried out an attack and said that their motivation was based on their religion. Mind you, there are about a billion or so (that would be the US billion, assuming certain areas of the word are still using the “thousand million” thing to sidetrack others from knowing what number they’re talking about) Muslims on the planet at the moment. Well, the amusing thing is that so many of the non-killing Muslims have pointed out that their religion actually does not teach doing what the terrorists did. But, oddly enough, we have a bunch of people who, knowing precious little about Islam (or even their own avowed faith, for that matter), deciding that the killers are, in fact, the best, the most correct, followers of Islam and to hell with any lying son-of-a-bitch who says he’s Muslim and the faith doesn’t teach that. You know, I was mistaken. It’s not funny at all. In this thread, in a related thread on this board, and a similar thread on another board, mostly what I’ve seen is a bunch of bigoted bullshit about Islam and Muslims. We have Muslim posters here and have had since the beginning of the board. Think about what some of you are saying about Islam and Muslims and then think about what that says about those posters. Yet, they manage to be civil in their discourse to you. Pretty amazing if the aspersions cast about Muslims were true. But, of course, they’re not true. If you want to know if you’re one of the people I’m talking about, find a mirror and look into it. Might I suggest some of you use a mirror at the proctologist’s office? ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/33 "2015-01-11T03:25:51Z")
Aww, you’re mad because people kill in the name of Allah and we are calling them Islamic. Boo-hoo. Get your proctologist to write a scrip for Prozac if that hurts your feelings. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/34 "2015-01-11T03:30:06Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Aww, you’re mad because people kill in the name of Allah and we are calling them Islamic. Boo-hoo. Get your proctologist to write a scrip for Prozac if that hurts your feelings. Yeah, look. We only have room for one troll in this thread, and it’s the OP. Quit trying to take his spotlight, you diva whore. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/35 "2015-01-11T04:14:52Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Aww, you’re mad because people kill in the name of Allah and we are calling them Islamic. Boo-hoo. Get your proctologist to write a scrip for Prozac if that hurts your feelings. Awww, [you’re cute.](http://i.imgur.com/GuyNk.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/36 "2015-01-11T04:49:18Z")
I tear of sadness for those that betray their own (liberal) principles in the name of Political Correctness. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/37 "2015-01-11T06:05:58Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > I tear of sadness for those that betray their own (liberal) principles in the name of Political Correctness. I tear of sadness? I burning your dog. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/38 "2015-01-11T07:26:34Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > I tear of sadness for those that betray their own (liberal) principles in the name of Political Correctness. Jesus, this shtick is tiresome. Grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/39 "2015-01-11T08:22:45Z")
No actually, innocent people being killed in the name of Islam is tiring. My pointing out the religious underpinning is maddening only to your consonant view of the world. I won’t apologize for your apologism. You liberals, who stand for equality of women, gays, and atheists, among other ancillary groups, betray your own ideals to defend such religious doctrine. Your adherence to the belief that an intolerant minority, simply because they are a minority among our liberal democracies, is deserving of undue deference has swallowed your own integrity. You have become the caricature of the man who feeds his own hand to the hungry beggar, not seeing the end result. If you can live with such hypocrisy, borne of misguided good-intentions, your willing blindness exceeds the wells of most honest men and women. I [tear](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tear) to think of your folly. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494/40 "2015-01-11T08:43:44Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > I suppose you have. I can’t tell, but it seems you think PC is another word for “liberal,” but it’s not. PC is enforcing the orthodoxy of the group, often focused on using the right words or not uttering certain ideas. Conservative groups have their own PC language too, or Star Wars fans (say you like the Christmas Special), or this message board – any group does. These terrorists literally want to kill people for not conforming to their standards. Depictions of Muhammad are super non-PC to them. Most of the time when people complain about PC in Western cultures it’s boycotts or being fired from your job or people harrumphing at you. The liberal PC police aren’t coming to chop off your head. That’s not PC, that’s taboo… PC is a specific kind of taboo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-silly-terrorists-in-paris/709494.md?page=3)