08-29-2021, 10:28 PM
(08-29-2021, 10:20 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: What a tool. This both undercuts the atrocities of the Taliban and undermines efforts to stop the spread of Covid.
I hated him as sec of edu. Completely out of his depth in that job, and it seems like not much has changed.
I'm pleased to see this. I would think that a refusal to compare fellow Americans to the Nazis, Isis or Taliban would be an easy, bi-partisan, agreement. Sadly, there are some among us who find such comparisons valid and necessary. I have consistently stated that such comparisons are inflammatory and serve no legitimate purpose. They only serve to polarize us further, stigmatize those compared to such odious organizations, and set us at each others throats. Certainly no assistance is needed at this unfortunate time to further demonize the "other", and any attempts to do so only fuel an already volatile political landscape. Hopefully, in this microcosm at least, we can agree that such comparisons are beyond the pale and a tool of the radical who only seeks to inflame tensions.
Hopefully.
