Re: Re: Re: The University of Nude Copulating Asians

In response to Tucker's thoughtful post, Steve replies: "Poor argument easily reduces to this,"

goes on, then says

"Poor argument easily refuted by this,"

then continues in an attempt — and I'll borrow Steve's own lingo here — to obfuscate Tucker's valid point.

But a few posts back, Steve comments "I wonder if I can use the Cindy Sheehan method, 'This is a bunch of crap, so I'm not paying my taxes.'"

No, Steve — it's actually your argument that now seems poor. You insist that you're so infuriated by this low cost film shown on UNC-A's campus that you rhetorically fantasize about joining ranks with someone you regularly lambaste so as to not pay taxes. Okay, I understand. But then you're quietly cool with your tax dollars being spent to finance a war in Iraq, or at least not opposed enough to post editorials regarding truly monumental, wasteful, and misguided spending of American tax dollars? Utterly ridiculous.

I'm fine with everyone pointing out what they feel is erroneous spending of taxpayer money, but let's be reasonable here. You and I both have paid a lot more to fund killings via the Iraq War (both in civilian casualties and in the sacrifice of our own troops) than we’ve paid for a few students in Asheville to see some soft-core documentary or whatever it is.

Sure, 'Masters of the Pillow' may be of questionable educational merit, but Mr. Adams' editorial is just another example of the Far Right's 'rally the morality troops' gameplan/smokescreen when truly degenerative actions are taken by the very government officials they regularly — and religiously — support. Lucky for them, the vast majority of their followers seem to miss the forest for the trees.