Things That Piss Us Off About This Morning's Guardian Article (3) - They Have No Respect For Their Betters. None.
Sometimes, the failure to defer to one's betters is the result of being in a situation where social norms are actually working in some way to enforce hierarchies - say race, gender, class. So you need to be inappropriate, because propriety itself is what's at stake. Other times, it's just a sign that you were raised in an overly permissive society where your undoubtedly overweight and illgroomed British mother doted on you until you thought that you were the bestest and most cleverest socialist in all of Liverpool. opening paragraph:
Only 18 months into his papacy and already Pope Benedict XVI has stirred up unprecedented controversy. As the explanations and apologies pour out of the Vatican - and thousands of Catholic churches around the world - the questions about what exactly this man intended by quoting a 14th-century Byzantine emperor's insult of the Prophet Mohammed have only multiplied.
"This man". "This man"?!?! You mean His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome and Servant Among Servants, charged with the spiritual welfare of one billion people? "This man." You know who the Guadian would never dare to refer to like this? Even the most insignificant London street Muslim preacher who has two or more followers. No, to them the Guardian show respect.
More disrespect for the Pope:
This theological treatise bears the same characteristics as last week's Regensburg lecture; put at its most charitable, they are too clever by half. More plainly speaking, they indicate a deep arrogance rooted in a blinkered Catholic triumphalism which is utterly out of place in the 21st century.
Internationalist liberals who think that they can solve the world's social problems through interfaith dialogue are lecturing a genius for being too 'clever'. How do you untangle that? Where do you begin? The irony of not knowing that the basis for their criticism relies on their own kind of arrogance, and arrogance which unlike the Pope's isn't backed by several book-length treatises? Or anything? Do you go after the general idea that being clever is bad because people who aren't clever beat you with their fists, like back in the orphanage with Pip and John from the Guardian spent their childhood (yes, we know... the childhood raising things are just general insults though... they don't have to be consistent). Remember: don't make the bully angry. We don't think so. Audiences have short attention spans, and you have to go for the jugular: if one more terrorist appeasing pit of a hole of a British newsroom talks about the triumphalism of Catholicism or Judaism while they literally have jihadists declaring the ascendancy of the caliphate on their doorstep... Yeah, we actually don't have the ability to make a threat. Maybe if we had some checkered headwear we'd be intimidating.
Anyway, we're done with this piece of work. We leave you with a parting thought. These guys are douchebags:
By an uncanny coincidence the legendary Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci died last week. No one connected the two events, but the Pope had already run into controversy in Italy by inviting the rabid Islamophobe to a private audience just months ago. This is the journalist who published a bestseller in 2001 which amounted to a diatribe of invective against Islam. This is the woman who was only too happy to fling out comments such as "Muslims breed like rats" and "the increasing presence of Muslims in Italy and Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."
It's almost a pity that, should the time ever come when the Guardian loses its ability to publish, many of the people that they attack daily will not be there to see it because they will have died trying to protect them.
Why yes, it is particularly cloudy outside. How'd you guess?
Only 18 months into his papacy and already Pope Benedict XVI has stirred up unprecedented controversy. As the explanations and apologies pour out of the Vatican - and thousands of Catholic churches around the world - the questions about what exactly this man intended by quoting a 14th-century Byzantine emperor's insult of the Prophet Mohammed have only multiplied.
"This man". "This man"?!?! You mean His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome and Servant Among Servants, charged with the spiritual welfare of one billion people? "This man." You know who the Guadian would never dare to refer to like this? Even the most insignificant London street Muslim preacher who has two or more followers. No, to them the Guardian show respect.
More disrespect for the Pope:
This theological treatise bears the same characteristics as last week's Regensburg lecture; put at its most charitable, they are too clever by half. More plainly speaking, they indicate a deep arrogance rooted in a blinkered Catholic triumphalism which is utterly out of place in the 21st century.
Internationalist liberals who think that they can solve the world's social problems through interfaith dialogue are lecturing a genius for being too 'clever'. How do you untangle that? Where do you begin? The irony of not knowing that the basis for their criticism relies on their own kind of arrogance, and arrogance which unlike the Pope's isn't backed by several book-length treatises? Or anything? Do you go after the general idea that being clever is bad because people who aren't clever beat you with their fists, like back in the orphanage with Pip and John from the Guardian spent their childhood (yes, we know... the childhood raising things are just general insults though... they don't have to be consistent). Remember: don't make the bully angry. We don't think so. Audiences have short attention spans, and you have to go for the jugular: if one more terrorist appeasing pit of a hole of a British newsroom talks about the triumphalism of Catholicism or Judaism while they literally have jihadists declaring the ascendancy of the caliphate on their doorstep... Yeah, we actually don't have the ability to make a threat. Maybe if we had some checkered headwear we'd be intimidating.
Anyway, we're done with this piece of work. We leave you with a parting thought. These guys are douchebags:
By an uncanny coincidence the legendary Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci died last week. No one connected the two events, but the Pope had already run into controversy in Italy by inviting the rabid Islamophobe to a private audience just months ago. This is the journalist who published a bestseller in 2001 which amounted to a diatribe of invective against Islam. This is the woman who was only too happy to fling out comments such as "Muslims breed like rats" and "the increasing presence of Muslims in Italy and Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."
It's almost a pity that, should the time ever come when the Guardian loses its ability to publish, many of the people that they attack daily will not be there to see it because they will have died trying to protect them.
Why yes, it is particularly cloudy outside. How'd you guess?
