Reuters: US ambassador to Libya dead

[Ed Anger]

Kevin Smith sucks.

You continue to find new ways to sicken me.

You people that worship that fat fuck offend me.

[CountDeMoney]

You people that worship that fat fuck offend me.

Snootchie bootchies, bitch.

[Solmyr]

Kevin Smith sucks.

You continue to find new ways to sicken me.

You people that worship that fat fuck offend me.

Will you burn their embassy and kill their ambassador?

[The Minsky Moment]

TBH, I gotta go with Romney here. I was hoping for an Anders Fogh Rasmussen type reply like from either of the candidates.

"Look, I'm sorry you got your feelings hurt, but in America everybody gets to say what they think, including the stupid people."

Which part of what Romney said do you agree with?

the part where he disagrees with doing this -> "to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."

What attacks are you referring to?  There weren't any attacks at the time the statement was made.

[Legbiter]

Watching the BBC I'm beginning to think these grotesque savages should not be allowed to operate anything more complicated than a camel if a YouTube clip can get them that worked up.

[Jacob]

Too many eloquent people manage to propound the same immoral doctrine of blaming the victim for it just to be mental retardation. It's an insult to all retards.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Viking]

TBH, I gotta go with Romney here. I was hoping for an Anders Fogh Rasmussen type reply like from either of the candidates.

"Look, I'm sorry you got your feelings hurt, but in America everybody gets to say what they think, including the stupid people."

Which part of what Romney said do you agree with?

the part where he disagrees with doing this -> "to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."

What attacks are you referring to?  There weren't any attacks at the time the statement was made.

In all the previous rounds where people have been killed an embassies burned.

[The Minsky Moment]

In all the previous rounds where people have been killed an embassies burned.

Where does the statement express sympathy for that?

[Viking]

In all the previous rounds where people have been killed an embassies burned.

Where does the statement express sympathy for that?

Where it condemns the bigots who made that silly movie. Or the one before that when the condemned the cartoonists. Or the one before that when the condemned the novel.

It validates those who think the problem is how free speech is used rather than the violence used to try and suppress it.

[The Minsky Moment]

In all the previous rounds where people have been killed an embassies burned.

Where does the statement express sympathy for that?

Where it condemns the bigots who made that silly movie. Or the one before that when the condemned the cartoonists. Or the one before that when the condemned the novel.

So it doesn't.

[Martinus]

People he doesn't like aren't full humans.

If that were true, there would only be one human on earth.

Who? Hillary Clinton?

[Martinus]

I am still waiting for the answer to my question why the US government does not issue official statements condemning US-based bigots who say offensive things about gays, or Jews, or Catholics, or pretty much anyone except Muslims.

[CountDeMoney]

I am still waiting for the answer to my question why the US government does not issue official statements condemning US-based bigots who say offensive things about gays, or Jews, or Catholics, or pretty much anyone except Muslims.

Because that is a separate civil rights issue.  And you know how we feel about free speech, regardless of however abhorrent, disturbing or LGBT-friendly.

[dps]

I think validating the view that the film's offensiveness was worthy of an emotional reaction in the same sentence as you condemn the attack means you aren't condemning the attack.

Don't see how that follows.  If someone calls your mother a whore, people can see how that might upset you yet still condemn your actions if your response is to slip into the guy's house at night and slit his throat and the throats of his entire family in their sleep.

[Martinus]

I am still waiting for the answer to my question why the US government does not issue official statements condemning US-based bigots who say offensive things about gays, or Jews, or Catholics, or pretty much anyone except Muslims.

Because that is a separate civil rights issue.  And you know how we feel about free speech, regardless of however abhorrent, disturbing or LGBT-friendly.

What's a separate civil rights issue? I asked a question why the US government feels a need to issue a formal statement with respect to an action of a private US citizen, not affiliated in any manner with the US government, that offends a certain group, where it does not seem to have the same policy with respect to similar actions offensive to other groups.