GW Students Refuse To Condemn Genocide--Even College Republicans bury their heads in the sand

FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 16, 2008 | FrontPage Magazine

[Turret Gunner A20]

How would students’ “condemning genocide” help anyone? Maybe they should condemn “hanging around in college acting self-righteous instead of getting a job."

How does your mindless bad-mouthing of anything positive help anyone? Maybe you should put you brain in gear before shooting off your mouth about things you obviously know little or nothing about.

[RavenATB]

“Had they not focused their ire on just one type of genocide, to which one group of people is to blame, and one book is responsible, it would have been a lot easier for other groups to endorse.”

Give me an “f-n” break. We're talking about genocide here. And you think it's somehow hard to condemn it unless we make it a “rainbow push” item?

How about female circumcision? If a million cases happen in the Middle East and one case happens in Africa do we have to condemn it as a global problem so people like you will have your “inclusive button” pushed?

Geesh...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It’s not the globalization that is the problem, it is the specialization.

If someone walks up to you and says “Murder is bad, because O.J. murdered his wife!”, it is a hell of a lot weaker sales pitch than if they say to you, “Murder is bad, because people all over the US are being murdered!”

Nobody is going around asking for petitions to be signed because the Vietnamese are killing the Hmong. Because most Americans have no idea who the Hmong are, and don’t care.

But this doesn’t make that genocide less offensive than the Muslim desire to wipe out the Jews, or the mutual hatred of the Hutus and the Tutsis.

Yes, I understand why Horowitz emphasizes the attacks on Jews by Muslims. But why be outraged when the campus Republicans don’t particularly want to join sides. Would it have been acceptable for them to just “deplore genocide”?

Again, just because they don’t have an “iron in that fire” doesn’t mean they either approve of genocide in general, or efforts by Muslims against Jews in particular. But the purpose of their club is to be a Republican club, not an anti-genocide club or an anti-Muslim against Jews club.

[RavenATB]

“If someone walks up to you and says “Murder is bad, because O.J. murdered his wife!”, it is a hell of a lot weaker sales pitch than if they say to you, “Murder is bad, because people all over the US are being murdered!””

Murder is no less bad when it happens 1 times than 1,000 times. It’s not a different degree of wrong. Simply a wrong committed more times.