Bin Laden is human, too (Ithaca mega-hurl alert)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 4/27/02 | Bruce Tyler

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This cartoon is inappropriate and offensive. Too many times have certain groups declared their enemies to be non-human. This serves no cause but that of barbarism. We cannot ignore the real social processes behind our enemies' actions, as well as our own. Any activities carried out by bin Laden are those of a human being, acting in a world created by humans, including us.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

According to the author's web page, he is more or less a life-long Ithaca resident.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump.

[dighton]

Question: are jackasses human too?

[friendly]

I am sure that bin Laden and the al Quida boys feel just as tender, gentle, considerate, and warm hearted as our friends in Ithaca.

As a point of irony, given the demographics of many of those slaughtered in the World Trade Center towers (male, highly educated, highly intelligent) there certainly were represented many Cornell graduates (an Ivy League school in Ithaca, NY).

[syriacus]

Perhaps the scientist should compare the Bin Laden DNA to the DNA of Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Speck.

[liberalism=failure]

cum ba ya my lord, cum ba ya. (will somebody please smash that friggin guitar over that smelly hippy's head)

[mhking]

This cartoon is inappropriate and offensive...We cannot ignore the real social processes behind our enemies' actions, as well as our own.

"social processes??"

What the flock does that mean? That we're supposed to wring our hands?

What we need is peaceful justice and understanding for all members of the human race.

What I understand is that Osama Yo Mama needs to be sent to the hereafter, period.

[liberalism=failure]

There's no sign of human DNA in this sample," and next to him an officer on the phone declaring, "We may have found an Ithaca hippy."

[tet68]

Ithica, city of snivelers.

Note to Bruce.

Anyone who would convince other people to crash an airliner into a highrise
and kill thousands of people has LOST their humanity.

Note to Bruce.

Exterminate the vermin!

[Redleg Duke]

What is it about the water around Ithica?

[week 71]

I'm sure the author of this article feels morally superior to us lesser mortals now, having written the above. This is how these folks feel good about themsleves.

[dvwjr]

Both Hitler and bin Laden are included in the human race, unfortunately. That means it's the rest of the race's responsibility to eliminate individuals like these two who come along every so often. It's called culling the herd...

[Behind Liberal Lines]

What is it about the water around Ithica?

Nothing.

Ithaca gets its water from Cayuga Lake, as does a big chunk of the otherwise conservative Finger Lakes area.

If you want to know why "Ithaca is the City of Evil," Click Here.

[opinionator]

Cartoons such as this serve only to create a climate of misunderstanding and hate

This editorial is causing me to hate a certain someone who lives in Ithaca.

[Bommer]

For a human, he sure has a way with the lady......goats!

[Orual]

I have a Master's Degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Guadalajara, located in sunny Guadalajara, Mexico.

Correspodence course? Couldn't get into a US University? Psuedoscienceology?

[Orual]

CorrespoNdence.

[general_re]

Dude, you're gonna be late for class...

[Publius6961]

This cartoon is inappropriate and offensive.

An honest difference of opinion.
The cartoon is spot on, as far as I'm concerned.
I have no problem labelling evil when I see it.
Human is as human does...

Next subject...

[Freemyland]

Memo to Bruce Tyler:

Your third grader got a hold of your word processor. Thought you might want to know.

[M Kehoe]

To bad ol' Bruce wasn't on the 90th floor of Tower 1. Methinks his attitude would be different if he survived.

5.56mm

[dighton]

Wading through that muck isn't class, it's Hell.

[yoe]

Whoa, what have we here? Another Completely Dumbed Down American Professor with tenure no doubt, teaching Social Engineering, Political Correctness and Complete Submission of Will to the empty heads that attend his classes.

MEMO to students: Run don't Walk from classes like this and teachers like this.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Whoa, what have we here? Another Completely Dumbed Down American Professor...?

Worse. A professional student serving as an instructor.

[Freemyland]

"Too many times have certain groups declared their enemies to be non-human."

I would agree that the cartoon would be over the line and offensive if it had, for example, declared all Arabs to be non-human. However, the cartoon as described simply illustrated the evil of one man.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I think post 29 (immediately above yours) answered your comment better than I could, but thanks for the lecture.

I take it, then, you consider there to be no such thing as "inhuman" behavior?

[tcostell]

We cannot ignore the real social processes behind our enemies' actions, as well as our own.

The social process that my friend of 20 years used was: he went to work, same as he did 5 days a week, in an effort to take care of his 3 kids and his wife. The social process Bin Laden used was: he manipulated someone into flying a plane into my freinds office killing him and about 3,000 other people. There, I'm no longer ignoring social process. And if I ever meet the author face to face I have a few more social processes I intend to introduce him to.

[91B]

Looks like the professional student is a littel math-impaired (from his website):

Assignments and grading:

Class discussion 10 %

Two essays 15 % each

Class facilitation 10 %

Field Assignment & Final Paper 50 %

That only accounts for 85% of the final grade. I guess (liberal) political activism makes up the remaining 15%.

[91B]

#@$%&*@-little.

[91B]

#@$%&*@-little.

[91B]

#@$%&*@-little.

[another cricket]

We heard you the first time.

*smile*

a.cricket

[Cicero]

I'd like to pose a question to the writer of this article. If the possession of human DNA is the definition of being human, then how about all those aborted babies? Don't you imagine that if you checked their DNA, you would find that they are human too?

None of those very human, unborn babies is a mass murderer, either.

[LadyDoc]

As usual, a liberal who lacks a sense of humor.

Now, if you call an unborn baby a human, he'd probably complain that you were an anti abortion far right wing fascist.

[gaspar]

After 17 years in college this boob is still working on a Ph.D??? He has just got to be the product of a sixties red.

[timestax]

Perhaps the scientist should compare the Bin Laden DNA to the DNA of Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Speck. 5 posted on 4/27/02 5:46 AM Pacific by syriacus [

Yeah, and compare it to James Carville, and Waxman too!!

[germanicus]

Wow! This guy has an over abundance of neurons that aren't connecting properly. These people worry me more than our clear enemy.

[mountaineer]

acting in a world created by humans, including us.

Now this guy is taking credit for having created the world?

[varon]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

Our new battle plan: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Ithaca.....

[general_re]

Oddly, you're probably pretty close. A lot of instructors for such classes reserve a fudge factor for themselves, usually under the guise of "participation". In reality, what this boils down to is a means to reward students who display the proper attitude - i.e., mouth the correct platitudes. And it cuts both ways, of course - it's also a way of insuring that students with retrograde attitudes can never get an "A", no matter what. They just label you as "disruptive" and yank away that participation grade.

And this is spoken as someone who failed to get an "A" in a few courses for precisely that reason ;)

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I'm sure the author of this article feels morally superior to us lesser mortals now, having written the above. This is how these folks feel good about themsleves."

Couldn't agree with you more.

[Frances_Marion]

Boohooohoooo...sniffsniff....and Hitler LOVED PUPPIES and didn't eat meat! WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

[NYC GOP Chick]

These people worry me more than our clear enemy.

I've long thought that they'll do us in -- that they'll be the ones to hand us, as a nation, over to the evil ones.

[Silverdrake]

what we need is peaceful justice and understanding for all members of the human race.

No problem. We'll peacefully find him guilty of instigating mass murder, understand that he's a power-crazed sociopath who is only genetically a member of the human race, and peacefully hang him from the flagpole in front of the Pentagon. Thus will justice be served, and the majority of the human race protected from his predation.