Comments on: Don’t blame me http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/ Korea... in Blog Format Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:43:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: mr milk http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1499 mr milk Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:08:51 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1499 Grace Park is hot Grace Park is hot

]]> By: lux bearer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1498 lux bearer Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:59:55 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1498 or make that you still have to eat more rice or make that

you still have to eat more rice

]]> By: lux bearer http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1497 lux bearer Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:58:06 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1497 Chris you have to eat more rice Chris

you have to eat more rice

]]> By: Horace Jeffery Hodges http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1496 Horace Jeffery Hodges Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:14:41 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1496 Christopher, I have a different take on Silly Sally's meaning when writes something like this: "North Korean parents are not above cannibalizing their children when they are very hungry. South Korean parents will do the same when they need cash. It's part of the beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected. Not good, not bad, -- just, different." She (or could it be "he"?) is presenting the reductio ad absurdum of extreme multiculturalism, presenting us with radically relativist views that force us to make moral judgements and thereby undermine moral relativism. That's the reason for her nom de plume -- everything's upside down: Silly Sally went to town, walking backwards, upside down. Buy the book. Read it to your children (before you cannibalize them). Jeffery Hodges Christopher, I have a different take on Silly Sally’s meaning when writes something like this:

“North Korean parents are not above cannibalizing their children when they are very hungry. South Korean parents will do the same when they need cash. It’s part of the beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected. Not good, not bad, — just, different.”

She (or could it be “he”?) is presenting the reductio ad absurdum of extreme multiculturalism, presenting us with radically relativist views that force us to make moral judgements and thereby undermine moral relativism.

That’s the reason for her nom de plume — everything’s upside down:

Silly Sally went to town,
walking backwards, upside down.

Buy the book. Read it to your children (before you cannibalize them).

Jeffery Hodges

]]> By: Christopher http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1495 Christopher Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:46:34 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1495 Ari: Well when all she gives me is sarcasm I have no choice but to accept what she puts down in comments at face value. That's hardly the first post of this same tone. Anyways I'm young and must naturally be rash, I have an excuse. ;) Capt: My issue with her statement is not the situations she mentions but the rather nonchalant acceptance of such things as a "beautiful mosaic of diversity." That strikes me as a bit askew. Ari: Well when all she gives me is sarcasm I have no choice but to accept what she puts down in comments at face value. That’s hardly the first post of this same tone. Anyways I’m young and must naturally be rash, I have an excuse. ;)
Capt: My issue with her statement is not the situations she mentions but the rather nonchalant acceptance of such things as a “beautiful mosaic of diversity.” That strikes me as a bit askew.

]]> By: Captain Scarlet http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1494 Captain Scarlet Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:35:29 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1494 christopher, she does have a point. during the currency crisis in 98, a korean man was arrested for cutting off his sons arm for insurance money. shin jong il, that's nonsense. we already knew they had a powerful navy. their chief admiral studied at harvard along with many other japanese military members. the japanese made it a point in the early 1900s to study our technology, steal it from us, and return the favor of bombing their harbors and forcing their markets open. christopher,
she does have a point. during the currency crisis in 98, a korean man was arrested for cutting off his sons arm for insurance money.

shin jong il,
that’s nonsense. we already knew they had a powerful navy. their chief admiral studied at harvard along with many other japanese military members. the japanese made it a point in the early 1900s to study our technology, steal it from us, and return the favor of bombing their harbors and forcing their markets open.

]]> By: shin jong il http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1493 shin jong il Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:58:28 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1493 i watched a program on secret aircraft of the japanese imperial army. many of the folks in the us were absolutely surprised to see the high performance of the 'zero'. you see, they were surprised because they assumed the japanese could not build a fighter aircraft. i watched a program on secret aircraft of the japanese imperial army. many of the folks in the us were absolutely surprised to see the high performance of the ‘zero’. you see, they were surprised because they assumed the japanese could not build a fighter aircraft.

]]> By: ari(w)rong http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1492 ari(w)rong Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:42:15 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1492 Turn on the sarcasm detector, please. For a group of people who think that Koreans are too easily offended because they take things too seriously, some of you guys seem to have a real hard time figuring out when someone is messing with you. Literally eating one's children = beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected?!? C'mon, Chris ... I have a hard time believing that Sally wrote that with a straight face. Turn on the sarcasm detector, please. For a group of people who think that Koreans are too easily offended because they take things too seriously, some of you guys seem to have a real hard time figuring out when someone is messing with you. Literally eating one’s children = beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected?!? C’mon, Chris … I have a hard time believing that Sally wrote that with a straight face.

]]> By: Christopher http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1491 Christopher Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:29:54 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1491 I eat more rice than any man should my Filipino friends tell me. I think I am safe in that regard... I eat more rice than any man should my Filipino friends tell me. I think I am safe in that regard…

]]> By: Christopher http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/01/12/dont-blame-me/#comment-1490 Christopher Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:05:04 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=458#comment-1490 You got one f'ed up worldview Silly Sally. Do you cast a negative opinion on anything regarding the way humans treat each other? How bout the the man who ate another man simply because he put an ad out for it and someone responded? Is there a moment where enough is enough? I'm just trying to get a handle on where one earth you are coming from. You got one f’ed up worldview Silly Sally.

Do you cast a negative opinion on anything regarding the way humans treat each other?

How bout the the man who ate another man simply because he put an ad out for it and someone responded?

Is there a moment where enough is enough?

I’m just trying to get a handle on where one earth you are coming from.

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