Islam doesn't need to be a race for a caricature to (hypothetically speaking) attack it and be racist. If they are using a racist caricature of Arabs and insulting Islam that is both racist and whatever term attacking a religion gets. It could also obviously be racist using caricatures of other races, though it would…

I wasn't aware if that was common to depicting Arabs (the posted poli cartoon above) or just the style. I must say that I am sadly ignorant of most political cartoons (especially the ones from other countries).

Are they racist? I was under the impression that it was simply mocking Muhammad and not Arabs as a whole. Though granted, I don't read french and may be confusing this with a number of other incidents.

That probably runs foul of laws. Same reason that in the US I wouldn't have a couple dozen cartons of smokes mailed to me from eastern Europe. It's legal for me to have them shipped here, but I'm responsible for a number of taxes on them in that case (which basically negates the savings of getting them from eastern…

People don't tend to assume children will be violent and women are rarely suicide bombers (assuming the girl triggered it) especially without being under duress; which while it tends to make people stand out, women and children don't tend to get that much scrutiny. So in that sense it's tactically speaking a pretty…

A lot of bombers have no choice. At least in Iraq it was conveyed to me that many of the people triggering regular IEDs did so under duress (i.e. do it or we kill you, your family, and your college roommate). Other than the most hard line people most people won't kill themselves for the promise of paradise (minus…

Oh definitely.

In all fairness him getting away with killing Trayvon had more to do with the prosecution choosing not to do a good job than with the jury.

Well being a crime and necessarily being immoral (or highly immoral) aren't the same thing in all fairness.

Kind of off topic and more of begging the question. I wonder how much of the difference between male and female offenders is social and how much is natural (or has nothing to do with social structure).

I may be misreading the article but it seems to indicate that 30% would rape if no consequences and of that 13 or so would do it if called rape.

True. But is this all that different than asking someone if they would kill someone if they knew they would get away with it? If you offer the promise of no reprisal alot of people are willing to do a lot of things. I would imagine more so in this case since many didn't seem to associate these acts with rape (so maybe…

To be fair the "not rape but force" group might not associate the action with being all that harmful since they don't associate it with rape. I would love to see what the questions and responses were (word for word that is).

I would more say that Ron Paul being racist doesn't mean that everyone who agrees with his other political opinions is racist (in the good old wear a pointy pillow case sense). I mean if we argue that following a large part of the political beliefs of a racist makes someone one than that means most politicians would…

You're making the assumption that common sense is a common gift. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be.

I'm not very up on the libertarian parties actual positions or candidates (just the generalized political philosophy). How are they racist (seriously asking)?

Possibly. There's also a good deal of psychological research into how our brains work to essentially reaffirm biases when presented with contradictory information. Like saying viewing someone as a role model (PBS's "it's ok to be smart" touched on it in a video about why some people refuse to believe in climate change…

The Dixie Chicks were a country band (more or less) so I doubt most venues thought that they would make a decent profit after their anti-Bush statement(s?) which were recorded. Where as Cosby is an icon and has been long enough that most people who were big fans of his shows probably either ignore the accusations or…

I would assume most of the people there believe Cosby for some reason. So to them it's probably just someone joking about false accusations.

Is he running again? Cuz this will be his what 3rd or 4th loss at the primary level?