Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/18/2006 3:12:08 AM PST by theothercheek
Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage, has chosen "macaca" as the most politically incorrect word of 2006, followed by "Global Warming Denier." "There are now proposals that ‘global warming deniers’ be treated the same as 'Holocaust deniers’: professional ostracism, belittlement, ridicule and, even, jail," the group's president, Paul JJ Payack, tells Reuters.
Just as African-Americans take offense at equating the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to today’s gay marriage rights campaign, The Stiletto takes strong exception to equating global warming with holocaust denial or genocide denial.
The scientific evidence for global warming is in flux, with competing studies and computer models arguing the case on one side of the issue or the other. In contrast, the Jewish holocaust and the Armenian genocide are established historical fact.
There is no equivalency between someone who is properly skeptical about the highly speculative data on global warming and someone who is delusional or despicable enough to disbelieve or deny the well-documented mass murders of millions of human beings.
To equate the two trivializes the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi Germans and the Ottoman Turks – who provided the "inspiration" for Hitler’s Final Solution by very nearly succeeding in the annihilation of the Armenian people.
NOTE: The original source includes links to relevant articles and Web sites.
Laffer Curve Deniers are the real menace.
"NOTE: The original source includes links to relevant articles and Web sites."
Here's one:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/printing.asp?id=77195
Excerpt:
"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me."
Just about says it all, doesn't it ...
GIGO ...
So much for freedom of speech.
The guy's comments are a bit oblique, but if you check the link in the original post and read the entire list of words/phrases, it is clearer that he does not approve of the usage "global warming denier." The first time I even learned that equating global warming and genocide/holocaust denial was taking place was a column Jeff Jacoby wrote in mid-October about free speech squelchers. This was one of the examples he gave.
The fact that the phrase made it on to this list shows it has become pervasive. But then, so predictable: the same people who care more about animal rights than the rights of the unborn will be the same people who go around using the phrase "global warming denier."
Just as African-Americans take offense at equating the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to today's gay marriage rights campaign, The Stiletto takes strong exception to equating global warming with holocaust denial or genocide denial.
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