MAXIM-UM 'REGRET'? Protesters Don't Buy 'Apology' (ROLOL Alert!! Best Apology letter I have seen)

tolerance ^

[HHFi]

Maxim was right: Gandhi was the perfect choice for an article about a human punching bag. His entire concept of "passive resistance" was to tell his followers to stand there and be mowed down until the enemy got embarrassed about killing so many of them and went away. Incredibly stupid. Gandhi was just lucky that he was dealing with the easily-embarrassed British. If he'd been telling Indians to lie down in front of Russian or Chinese tanks, there wouldn't be any Indians alive today.

[headsonpikes]

"We were going for irony here."

Irony is a patriarchal oppressor's tool. It is expressly designed to make the stupid appear stupid.

That's an unforgivable crime to the PC set, but they're morons, so who gives a sh*t?

;^)

[zip]

I will! I'm sick and tired of all the scantily clad women in Maxim! If the Lord had intended for them to be wearing clothes, they'd have been born that way!

Thanks for that comment. It lightened up the foul mood I was in (due to a "useful idiot" posting on our Columbia FReep thread.)Thanks again. zip

[FierceDraka]

Tolerance.org?? WTF kind of PC rag is that crap?

Funny how the "tolerance" freaks are among the most intolerant of all, isn't it?

[Kip Lange]

They already have complained about the scantily clad women...that's why it's (can't remember if this is definitely going to happen) going off the shelves of Wal-Mart.

[Kip Lange]

I have to get this off to my best-friend Indian buddy when he gets back. He'll laugh his ass off over this one. ;-)

[FreedomPoster]

I'm pretty sure a news story saying exactly that came out in the last week.

[Kip Lange]

Side note: Anyone remember Weird Al Yankovic's UHF and the spoof they did of Gandhi II in it? Another highly underrated B-movie I recommend for rental some day when you're feel yourself in that mood for some good cheese...

[Kip Lange]

Irony is a patriarchal oppressor's tool.

"Wot? I know wot Irony is...eh...it's like Coppery and Bronzy, right?" (Baldrick in BlackAdder...IV, I think)

[Kip Lange]

Yep. Here's the link:

Walmart pulls some magazines off the shelf

Pity. I'll have to pick it up at the local drugstore from now on. ;-)

[friendly]

It's like putting Bill Clinton in charge of a morality commission, say, or making Ted Kennedy your designated driver. Sorry for any confusion.

You would think I would learn not to be sipping beverages while reading these posts. LOL

Where are my clean up kit and paper towels? Another fine mess you've got me in, FR.

[Kip Lange]

Of course, that being said, this is Wal-Mart's decision, and they have that absolute right. And I have the right to pick the magazines somewhere else. Free-market enterprise in action.

[hchutch]

Already happens...

WalMart is pulling them.

[hchutch]

It is being pulled.

Thank goodness for a local newsstand. :)

[Mr. Silverback]

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."--G.K. Chesterton

Incredibly stupid. Gandhi was just lucky that he was dealing with the easily-embarrassed British. If he'd been telling Indians to lie down in front of Russian or Chinese tanks, there wouldn't be any Indians alive today.

Excellent point, but it's even worse than that. In an open letter to the people of Britain during WWII, Gandhi wrote this:

"Let them [Germany] take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds."

I'm glad that India was liberated, and I support passive resistance as a tactic in some cases, it worked really well for MLK, for instance. But in most cases pacifism is morally bankrupt, and takes on a "sin of omission" evil of its own in direct proportion to the evil it is refusing to deal with.

My path is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help. - Francis Schaeffer, 1984

Thanks to Mr. Bungle for the Gandhi and Chesterton quotes. Bet ya 99% of the population doesn't know old Mahatma advocated surrender to the Nazis, though they should be able to figure it out from his philosophy.

[Sofa King]

"I need a drink"
"But- you don't drink"
"Yeah, well I've been meaning to start!"

[metalboy]

Mutt of the Year

Prof. Nicholas De Genova

Said in public that he hopes that our US troops get killed, that they live an indecent life and that Israel has no heritage to the holocaust

43 days

No apology and he still has a job.

Remember that next time someone is fired for just saying something slightly politically incorrect that ignites massive protests from the left

Hypocrisy: For the left it`s a religion

Dogeggs.com

[MarkL]

Side note: Anyone remember Weird Al Yankovic's UHF and the spoof they did of Gandhi II in it? Another highly underrated B-movie I recommend for rental some day when you're feel yourself in that mood for some good cheese...

Great movie! And you can get it most places on DVD for about $10!

Michael Richards is hysterical! "Time to drink from the firehose!"

Mark

[honeygrl]

I guess people in India have no sense of humor...

[honeygrl]

already been done.. search for the article on wal-mart taking Maxim off their shelves ... of course, I like the magazine and so does my hubby