You're right, the "Left" has been sloppy and remiss. After all, the Right has been so busy worrying about what those pesky, affluent homosexuals are getting up to in the US. That and lobbying endlessly to whittle away at women's rights.
Oh yes, the same homosexuals and women that enjoy a much higher standard of living in, let’s say, Saudi Arabia? Your selective Leftist thought processes bring me a great deal of humour. Why confuse a debate over how the US should engage the gay community in a civil rights episode with this genocide? You must think they’re comparable, Deedee.
With a busy-as-a bee schedge like that, of COURSE the responsibility for protesting human rights violations falls fully the lap of the "Left." And you're not embarrassed actually writing that?
You’re not embarrassed that I created a thread outlining the murder of millions of children - before they had a chance at life – which you have now used to moan about women’s and homosexual rights? Which right is more important to you, Deedee, the right to life, or the right for two men to be wed? A Leftist shouldn’t have such difficulty deciding.
This thread is dumber than dumb. What the hell does Iraq have to do with women's rights and female infanticide/abortion in India and China?
It should be no surprise that you’ve featured here then, Deedee. What these two events have to do with one another is the Left’s (and yours) ability to discriminate between whose lives it think are more newsworthy. What makes news, Deedee? A million dead Indian children, or an Iraqi in Abu Ghraib prison that had a nude photo taken of them? Which side of the media drives these stories – Right or Left? If the Left is truly for ‘women’s rights’ etc. then it will no doubt see this as a cause close to its collective heart.
Or is this your attempt to deflect attention from, or rationalize the death toll in Iraq. Lol. Pathetic analogy. By your logic, someone should tell the Armenians to stop going on about their attempted genocide, since the Jewish one was so much better.
You counter a ‘pathetic analogy’ with that garbage, eh? I’m trying to bring some perspective, Deedee. Let’s put the deaths in Iraq/media coverage ratio in contrast with this atrocity, shall we?
The practice of female infanticide/abortion was outlawed in the mid 90's. Before that feminist organizations and human rights activists protested against it quite extensively. Go google it. Here you are bashing a particular political party that has actually been very active in denouncing the practice, for something that ceased to be officially condoned by the Indian government over a decade ago. Um, you are aware that this is a very old story, right? (And who even had a blog in '92 ). Do you have a fever?
An ‘old story’ that kills 500,000 children a year (see below)? Oh, okay, Deedee best we pretend it isn’t happening then. What masterful powers of logic you display. Please show me what the Left is currently doing to put a stop to this slaughter.
But, if you insist on faulting the "Left" for this banned practice, by whatever convoluted logic, shouldn't you also be calling out the Christians. After all, the recent bone discoveries occured on the grounds of a Christian-funded hospital. Aren't they just as culpable?
Let me make this clear – I’m not blaming the Left for this occurring at all – I’m pointing out that if is the Left is truly a bastion of human rights, like we have been led to believe, then they should be raising hell on this issue. It’s a fact they’re not.
What Bruce is trying to say, is that the civilians killed in Iraq in the last four years are far less in number than the infanticide/abortion deaths occuring over centuries in India, so therefore people... aka the "left"... should shut up about Iraq.
Wrong, Deedee. What I’m actually saying is, if you add up all of the deaths in Iraq (even the most exaggerated estimates),
this murdering of babies before birth outstrips it in just one year. See this article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0113/p01s04-wosc.htmlNEW DELHI – Banned by Indian law for more than a decade, the practice of prenatal selection and selective abortion remains a common practice in India, claiming up to half a million female children each year, according to a recent study by the British medical journal, The Lancet.Maybe it’s you that does not engage in adequate reading, Deedee. I’m not asking the Left to ‘shut up’ about Iraq, but simply put it in perspective with this astronomical genocide.
I’ll say this again: you’re possibly the worst researched and least skilled debater on this forum – I thoroughly enjoy exposing you as such.
