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The age of Misinformation
Dec. 20th, 2008 09:06 pmGot to Hilton Head safely, no delays, no problems. A bit miraculous really.
Even took an earlier flight and had to check my carry on. But didn't lose it. I may post on all that at another point. On parents computer at the moment.
I am posting mainly to share a post made by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ishtar - who has posted information about the Greece riots and shooting - which sheds a decisively different light on what happened. She links to a blog by another resident of Athen's, who has inside information.
http://ishtar79.livejournal.com/131703.html?view=1662583&style=mine#t1662583
I don't know if you've been following the story at all. But I've following it in the MEtro, AM and Time, with avid curousity and horror. Yet, the facts I've gotten are slanted to the authorities, lending little insight to why this is happening, stating merely that the kids are "gangs" and "insane". The above post sheds a different light on that - stating it is actually the opposite, the riot police are causing the chaos. This demonstrates, once again, that in an age in which information is instantly accessible, it is not always and most often not accurate. The inaccuracy can at times lead to dangerous assumptions.
In that same vein, I watched an interview with Rick Warren, where I saw the news commentators twist on screen and misstate what Warren stated.
I turned to my mother and father, and we all three said the same thing at the same time: But he never said that. (He said: "When my gay friends ask me how I feel about them sleeping with multiple partners, I tell my gay friends that I don't believe it is okay to have a multitude of partners any more than I think it okay for me, to sleep with every attractive woman I meet."
The media/anchor people: "Warren upset the gay community because he said if you are gay you are more likely to sleep with a multitude of people and that is your inclination."
Uh, no. That's not what he said. That's what you said. You twisted his words and I watched you do it and what's really frightening is you are completely unaware of it. Don't get me wrong - I'm no fan of Warren, Evangelists make my teeth hurt.
[*ETA: I paraphrased what they said above from memory, if you want the exact statements, I'm sure you can find them somewhere. Wish I had the time and patience to look myself.]
Being against promiscuity, is not the same as being anti-gay or homophobic. )
Sometimes when I see the news, read the internet, I feel like I'm playing that old game "gossip" - where you whisper a secret to your neighbor, they whisper it to someone else and after about twenty people, the last person shouts out something that is the absolute opposite of what the first person said.
Even took an earlier flight and had to check my carry on. But didn't lose it. I may post on all that at another point. On parents computer at the moment.
I am posting mainly to share a post made by
ishtar - who has posted information about the Greece riots and shooting - which sheds a decisively different light on what happened. She links to a blog by another resident of Athen's, who has inside information.http://ishtar79.livejournal.com/131703.html?view=1662583&style=mine#t1662583
I don't know if you've been following the story at all. But I've following it in the MEtro, AM and Time, with avid curousity and horror. Yet, the facts I've gotten are slanted to the authorities, lending little insight to why this is happening, stating merely that the kids are "gangs" and "insane". The above post sheds a different light on that - stating it is actually the opposite, the riot police are causing the chaos. This demonstrates, once again, that in an age in which information is instantly accessible, it is not always and most often not accurate. The inaccuracy can at times lead to dangerous assumptions.
In that same vein, I watched an interview with Rick Warren, where I saw the news commentators twist on screen and misstate what Warren stated.
I turned to my mother and father, and we all three said the same thing at the same time: But he never said that. (He said: "When my gay friends ask me how I feel about them sleeping with multiple partners, I tell my gay friends that I don't believe it is okay to have a multitude of partners any more than I think it okay for me, to sleep with every attractive woman I meet."
The media/anchor people: "Warren upset the gay community because he said if you are gay you are more likely to sleep with a multitude of people and that is your inclination."
Uh, no. That's not what he said. That's what you said. You twisted his words and I watched you do it and what's really frightening is you are completely unaware of it. Don't get me wrong - I'm no fan of Warren, Evangelists make my teeth hurt.
[*ETA: I paraphrased what they said above from memory, if you want the exact statements, I'm sure you can find them somewhere. Wish I had the time and patience to look myself.]
Being against promiscuity, is not the same as being anti-gay or homophobic. )
Sometimes when I see the news, read the internet, I feel like I'm playing that old game "gossip" - where you whisper a secret to your neighbor, they whisper it to someone else and after about twenty people, the last person shouts out something that is the absolute opposite of what the first person said.