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...Kurt Andersen `76 (co-founder of Spy, former editor-and-chief of New York magazine and co-founder of Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes disgust. The humor magazine The Onion is doing its patriotic duty and, thanks to a mainstream media obsession with irony’s supposed death, future or second coming, the business of funny commentary is a widely captivating trade these days...
...past, we have remained calm as thousands died in mass genocide in the Balkans and Africa. Yet, where has been our fundamental love, not for principle, but for humanity itself? Shouldn’t that love stir us in times like these, softening our hearts of their outrage and disgust, so that we may know the depths of our shared sorrow...
Imagine, she said, of being afraid to say your full name because your last name sounds Muslim. Of being afraid to open your mouth in public because your foreign accent would arouse suspicion. Of being frightened of wearing your religious garments because onlookers might grimace with disgust. Or of being afraid to visit your mosque because you might be caught in the crossfire of drive-by shootings. The unrelenting threat of having your identity perpetually misconceived and questioned is nothing less than psychological terrorism...
Cohen should rethink her disgust with the male half of her own species. Individual responsibility cannot be masked behind a blind attempt to resolve her motives for peace through sexism. We do need compassion and caring solidarity. But instilling a mentality that women are so more morally superior is not constructive in that respect...
...which was very heavy yesterday is even more intolerable today. If it was done in the name of some weird interpretation of Islam, all Islamic states, including the shadowy figures of the Taliban, have condemned it. Some groups may be shedding crocodile tears but the sense of shame and disgust at attacking innocents hangs heavy over them anyway. Israel, too, is not any safer...