Comments on: Green Your Avatar! (If you know what you’re talking about) http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/ The official blog of the Skeptologists Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: White Rabbit http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9422 White Rabbit Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:13:37 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9422 No, but he is a political blogger. No, but he is a political blogger.

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9417 Devil's Advocate Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:38:52 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9417 People are free to green their avatars, but do they forfeit the right to make fun of yellow ribbons? People are free to green their avatars, but do they forfeit the right to make fun of yellow ribbons?

]]> By: Max http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9287 Max Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:37 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9287 Just following MadScientist's logic. Just following MadScientist’s logic.

]]> By: Mario Guerra http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9284 Mario Guerra Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:25:32 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9284 "It’s not what they’re for, it’s what they’re against. We KNOW the current Iranian government is corrupt, tyrannical, supports terrorism abroad, and is developing nuclear weapons. Any change seems like an improvement." I respectfully have to disagree with the last paragraph. Why?. Remember the Ayatollah Khomeini?. When the Iran-Iraq war started (Iraq invaded, remember), the rationalization was that Hussein was the lesser evil. You know what followed and, because, supposedly, of being the lesser evil, everybody looked elsewhere when Hussein used chemical weapons. So much for any change. Of course the Ahmadinejad-Mousavi thing is very different but what I want to point out is that the alternative to an evil not necessarily is better. Moreover, how Ahmadinejad got power?. Because of those particularly stupid three words used by a former US president: the famous "axis of evil". Above all, the proud Iranian people is very nationalistic. You know what followed. “It’s not what they’re for, it’s what they’re against. We KNOW the current Iranian government is corrupt, tyrannical, supports terrorism abroad, and is developing nuclear weapons. Any change seems like an improvement.”

I respectfully have to disagree with the last paragraph. Why?.

Remember the Ayatollah Khomeini?. When the Iran-Iraq war started (Iraq invaded, remember), the rationalization was that Hussein was the lesser evil. You know what followed and, because, supposedly, of being the lesser evil, everybody looked elsewhere when Hussein used chemical weapons. So much for any change. Of course the Ahmadinejad-Mousavi thing is very different but what I want to point out is that the alternative to an evil not necessarily is better.

Moreover, how Ahmadinejad got power?. Because of those particularly stupid three words used by a former US president: the famous “axis of evil”. Above all, the proud Iranian people is very nationalistic. You know what followed.

]]> By: Michael Kingsford Gray http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9216 Michael Kingsford Gray Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:12:29 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9216 What an alarmingly stupid thing to say. What an alarmingly stupid thing to say.

]]> By: tmac57 http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9157 tmac57 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:04:13 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9157 What the hell! You mean those things aren't really magic! Sheeesh. My life now has no meaning. Sigh. What the hell! You mean those things aren’t really magic! Sheeesh. My life now has no meaning. Sigh.

]]> By: tmac57 http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9156 tmac57 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:56:26 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9156 My understanding is that most of the students and young people there are sick of the clerics running their lives, and want more personal freedoms. I don't know if Mousavi could have, or would have been able to deliver on this hope though. My understanding is that most of the students and young people there are sick of the clerics running their lives, and want more personal freedoms. I don’t know if Mousavi could have, or would have been able to deliver on this hope though.

]]> By: donjoe http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9153 donjoe Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:11:52 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9153 And I am merely stating that sufficient facts were available at the time I greened mine and this is probably true of many others. If it were Communists protesting peacefully in the streets of Washington with red banners and I found out the U.S. police/military had been sent to beat them up and kill them, I'd redden my avatar in a nanosecond. Nothing more was needed here than information about gross violations of the most basic Human Rights. Politics and religion become entirely negligible. More evidence that green isn't just about a certain candidate anymore, but about freedom from islamic oppression: after listening to Mousavi's speech (broadcast via telephone and through a megaphone) the green protesters gathered today at Qoba mosque turn around to give a loud welcome to the other reformist candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, as he arrives among them. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1073106267963&ref=mf Here's Karroubi making his way through the crowd earlier along his path to the mosque: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUvDmcwmWU And I am merely stating that sufficient facts were available at the time I greened mine and this is probably true of many others. If it were Communists protesting peacefully in the streets of Washington with red banners and I found out the U.S. police/military had been sent to beat them up and kill them, I’d redden my avatar in a nanosecond. Nothing more was needed here than information about gross violations of the most basic Human Rights. Politics and religion become entirely negligible.

More evidence that green isn’t just about a certain candidate anymore, but about freedom from islamic oppression: after listening to Mousavi’s speech (broadcast via telephone and through a megaphone) the green protesters gathered today at Qoba mosque turn around to give a loud welcome to the other reformist candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, as he arrives among them.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1073106267963&ref=mf

Here’s Karroubi making his way through the crowd earlier along his path to the mosque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUvDmcwmWU

]]> By: The Blind Watchmaker http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9150 The Blind Watchmaker Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:31:40 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9150 Brian is merely stating that before blindly showing support for a movement or point of view, get to know some of the facts. He is using the "green the avatar" as an example. Brian is merely stating that before blindly showing support for a movement or point of view, get to know some of the facts. He is using the “green the avatar” as an example.

]]> By: donjoe http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/06/25/green-your-avatar/#comment-9137 donjoe Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:19:57 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=3102#comment-9137 Eat this: Swedish company greens its logo in support of the Green Revolution of '88. http://www.callex.se Eat this:

Swedish company greens its logo in support of the Green Revolution of ’88.
http://www.callex.se

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