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Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens[W:165; 667]

No doubt this "spontaneous" walk-out, was planned in advance.

How do I know? I've participated in such things. :)
 
Can I ask of one thing, can we have one day where no one gets offended about anything? Please, for the love of everything holy just please.
 
Can I ask of one thing, can we have one day where no one gets offended about anything? Please, for the love of everything holy just please.

His comments were not acceptable at all. I don't agree with being hypersensitive, but he was being overtly offensive in regards to the Bible and Christianity.
 
This was suppose to be a speech on bullying given to a national confertence of High School journalism students by an alleged adult. Discussing the Bible and mocking and attacking Christianity does not belong in such a setting. The speaker worked for Gary Bauer when he ran for President and has boasted that while sick he licked all of the door knobs in Bauer's office hoping to make Bauer ill. He is also the person responsible for establishing the term "santorum" on google as relating to a by product of anal sex. Is this really the type of person that belongs in our schools instructing our children?
And equating the believing and teaching of homosexuality as immoral to beating people is an outrageous absurdity. No true Christian would ever strike, mock or denigrate anyone for living what they considered a sinful lifestyle. Mr. Savage has proven once again that he does not deserve access to school children.

The problem with bullying has nothing to do with what kids think, it's the lazy teachers who let the inmates run the prison. When I was in grade school IN THE 80'S whenever there was a fight all the adults either stood around or walked by like they didn't give a ****.
 
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His comments were not acceptable at all. I don't agree with being hypersensitive, but he was being overtly offensive in regards to the Bible and Christianity.

Yes they were being hypersensitive, just sit down and listen, you don't have to walk out acting like a child believing you can only hear stuff that makes you happy. The fact that people are offended is stupid, and makes me ****ing sad. I just wanna yank them by the collar and tell them to grow the **** up. I'm tired of people having this "oh I'm offended more" war, it lowers discourse, and keeps us from actually talking about anything with substance. **** being offended, it's stupid, gets us nowhere and is childish. We as a society need to grow the **** up.
 
Yes they were being hypersensitive, just sit down and listen, you don't have to walk out acting like a child believing you can only hear stuff that makes you happy. The fact that people are offended is stupid, and makes me ****ing sad. I just wanna yank them by the collar and tell them to grow the **** up. I'm tired of people having this "oh I'm offended more" war, it lowers discourse, and keeps us from actually talking about anything with substance. **** being offended, it's stupid, gets us nowhere and is childish. We as a society need to grow the **** up.

Really? I would walk out. Saying that we need to "ignore the bull**** in the Bible" and making comments about those walking out is not acceptable. Such a crude and ignorant individual doesn't deserve my attention and nor will I give it to him. What if the table was turned and someone was saying homosexuals are deranged pervs because the Bible says it's a sin (or at least in their interpretation, which the guy in the video is also giving his interpretation about scripture). Should people just sit through that and not be offended? The one who needs to grow the **** up is the speaker in the video, not the students who walked out. His whole premise was to be offensive from what I saw in the video. I know where you are coming from with hypersensitivity and I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think this is one of those cases.
 
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Really? I would walk out. Saying that we need to "ignore the bull**** in the Bible" and making comments about those walking out is not acceptable. Such a crude and ignorant individual doesn't deserve my attention and nor will I give it to him. What if the table was turned and someone was saying homosexuals are deranged pervs because the Bible says it's a sin (or at least in their interpretation, which the guy in the video is also giving his interpretation about scripture). Should people just sit through that and not be offended? The one who needs to grow the **** up is the speaker in the video, not the students who walked out.

I would sit there, and probably laugh because he's so retarded, because choose to go, and I would probably try to talk to them if it was possible. The people who walked out need to grow the **** up, plain and simple. Like I said, **** being offended.
 
I would sit there, and probably laugh because he's so retarded, because choose to go, and I would probably try to talk to them if it was possible. The people who walked out need to grow the **** up, plain and simple. Like I said, **** being offended.

I think there are valid reasons to be offended. I think this speaker was being blatantly disrespectful and offensive. Waking out can also be a form of protest against someone's message. This guy in my view has the same similar hatred that Fred Phelps does. I wouldn't sit through a speech by Phelps saying we should bully gay people and that God hates them. Likewise, I wouldn't sit through this moron's ignorant drivel nor give credibility to it. He doesn't deserve my attention or my presence.
 
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I think there are valid reasons to be offended. I think this speaker was being blatantly disrespectful and offensive Waking out can also be a form of protest against someone's message. This guy in my view has the same similar hatred that Fred Phelps does. I wouldn't sit through a speech by Phelps saying we should bully gay people and that God hates them. Likewise, I wouldn't sit through this moron's ignorant drivel nor give credibility to it. He doesn't deserve my attention or my presence.

Yeah, but you choose to go there so why would you leave in the middle like a child?
 
His comments were not acceptable at all. I don't agree with being hypersensitive, but he was being overtly offensive in regards to the Bible and Christianity.

Agree he was being unnecesarily antagonistic to a group of HS kids...he could have said everything he did in an entirely enlightening way and got his message across...
 
Yeah, but you choose to go there so why would you leave in the middle like a child?

What if someone doesn't know the full content of what is coming? Someone can market a speech or an assembly as "anti-bullying" but if they take that time to be offensive I think walking out is appropriate. I think the childish person was the speaker, not the students. As dignified people we don't have to sit through stuff like that, and those types of messages don't deserve to be listened to.

Agree he was being unnecesarily antagonistic to a group of HS kids...he could have said everything he did in an entirely enlightening way and got his message across...

I agree, although based on his delivery I think he had a personal message behind what he was trying to convey. That personal message being his personal dislike or hatred of Christianity and the Bible. If he simply said that we shouldn't use religion to hate or bully people that would be fine. But I don't think his intentions are purely honorable and form what I heard I would bet that he has a personal axe to grind and was incapable of putting that aside to get his overall message across.
 
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What if someone doesn't know the full content of what is coming? Someone can market a speech or an assembly as "anti-bullying" but if they take that time to be offensive I think walking out is appropriate. I think the childish person was the speaker, not the students. As dignified people we don't have to sit through stuff like that, and those types of messages don't deserve to be listened to.

I'm a big believer in the market place of ideas, let someone speak and if they are an idiot that will become evident, and if someone says something you disagree with, challenge it, don't walk away and have the out of sight out of mind mentality. If you believe they are wrong challenge them.
 
Great. Another hackish instance of making it seem there are mainly gay victims bullied by white Christians. It's not like it should be mentioned there are non-gay victims and non-white/Christian bullies. Nope, can't have that. You know what, let's use this as a political tool to swipe at whites and Christians and Christianity in general because we really don't give a **** about the victims, but our own political ends.
 
I'm a big believer in the market place of ideas, let someone speak and if they are an idiot that will become evident, and if someone says something you disagree with, challenge it, don't walk away and have the out of sight out of mind mentality. If you believe they are wrong challenge them.
I whole heartedly agree. I think challenging things is better than ignoring them and saying that you were offended while just filing stuff off. However, I also don't think that people need to put up with it and can leave if someone is being hateful without the action of leaving being childish. Sometimes when children throw a fit it's best to ignore them and walk away and not give attention to that. I think the speaker here was the child and those that walked out were not. Personally, I probably would have sat through it and then booed him at the end when others may applaud him.
 
No doubt this "spontaneous" walk-out, was planned in advance.

How do I know? I've participated in such things. :)

Acording to the link the event sponsor said they did not have a prior transcript of Savage's speech. It was supposed to be a speech on bullying. How can you plan a protest in advance of something you're not aware of?
 
I whole heartedly agree. I think challenging things is better than ignoring them and saying that you were offended while just filing stuff off. However, I also don't think that people need to put up with it and can leave if someone is being hateful without the action of leaving being childish. Sometimes when children throw a fit it's best to ignore them and walk away and not give attention to that. I think the speaker here was the child and those that walked out were not. Personally, I probably would have sat through it and then booed him at the end when others may applaud him.

I just find it unsettling that people would rather ignore than use their minds to challenge, and while I don't really find what he said that offensive, even as a Christian(and it's probably because it takes a lot for me to get offended) he didn't say it in a good way, and I don't really like him anyway, but that's not really what I was talking about in the first place.
 
I just find it unsettling that people would rather ignore than use their minds to challenge, and while I don't really find what he said that offensive, even as a Christian(and it's probably because it takes a lot for me to get offended) he didn't say it in a good way, and I don't really like him anyway, but that's not really what I was talking about in the first place.

nah. It's like when someone on television starts yelling that their opposition is Just Like Hitler. They have lost the ability to even rationally understand reply, and so they arent' worth the effort.
 
nah. It's like when someone on television starts yelling that their opposition is Just Like Hitler. They have lost the ability to even rationally understand reply, and so they arent' worth the effort.

It's not them I care about, it's everyone else listening.

Love the movie "Thank you for Smoking" :mrgreen:
 
Anyways, there's a general lack of discipline in schools that's a problem, not "bullying".

Schools rack dissiprin!
 
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the side that says they hate the sin but love the sinner.

Why would you quote something you don't believe in? Do you see those on the right running around saying that if you care so much about the poor you wouldn't be making energy so expensive? Huh?!!
 
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