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AIG - Really? - just_a_thinker - 12-05-2011 04:58 PM
Regardless of your beliefs this sign is just offensive, closed minded, and ignorant.
RE: AIG - Really? - Tikatu - 12-05-2011 05:37 PM
(12-05-2011 04:58 PM)just_a_thinker Wrote: Regardless of your beliefs this sign is just offensive, closed minded, and ignorant.
Agreed! Other than that, I have no words!
RE: AIG - Really? - greg - 12-05-2011 08:10 PM
AIG put this billboard up in Texas in 2009 in response to to the dramatic rise of school shooting massacres all across the U.S. and around the world, and specifically one in Finland where the killer posted a video which mentioned putting "Natural Selection back on track" which is certainly an appeal to Social Darwinism (the rhetorical appeal to phrases such as "natural selection" "the struggle for existence" or the old favorite "survival of the fittest, in furtherance of a social idealogy)
AIG contends that this indicates that school massacres are in part created by the teaching of evolution in public schools, I completely concur.
RE: AIG - Really? - Tchaiko - 12-05-2011 08:43 PM
I really don't know how to respond to that, greg.
Every time fundies hear about a murderer quoting Bible verses at his victims before he shoots them, they all talk about how the media is trying to destroy Christianity and besmirch the name of Christ. When people go on random shootings and one of those seems linked to social darwinism, they put up billboards that call an entire group of people murderers based simply on the fact that they believe differently than the fundies do.
Seems a little lopsided, don't it. . .
RE: AIG - Really? - Tchaiko - 12-05-2011 08:43 PM
(12-05-2011 04:58 PM)just_a_thinker Wrote: Regardless of your beliefs this sign is just offensive, closed minded, and ignorant.
Unless you're greg, evidently.
(12-05-2011 08:10 PM)greg Wrote: AIG contends that this indicates that school massacres are in part created by the teaching of evolution in public schools, I completely concur.
RE: AIG - Really? - greg - 12-06-2011 04:43 AM
(12-05-2011 05:37 PM)Tikatu Wrote:(12-05-2011 04:58 PM)just_a_thinker Wrote: Regardless of your beliefs this sign is just offensive, closed minded, and ignorant.
Agreed! Other than that, I have no words!
I find your response to AIG's sign offensive, narrow-minded and intolerant.
It's offensive, why? Because I say it is!! How much more fundy could you be?
RE: AIG - Really? - C_Fresh - 12-06-2011 07:51 AM
(12-05-2011 04:58 PM)just_a_thinker Wrote: Regardless of your beliefs this sign is just offensive, closed minded, and ignorant.
I don't know if I would go that far in my assessment. I do think it is in poor taste. Seems like a wierd thing for AIG to do. If greg's assessment is correct I guess that makes some sense but still not something I would put on a billboard. Seems like it is more for shock value or controversy.
RE: AIG - Really? - JoeR - 12-06-2011 08:47 AM
Whatever the point of this sign is, it is too subtle, leading us to debate whether it is in poor taste, or completely offensive. I wonder if the whole point is to just make people think. Regardless, I don't care for the sign at all. I think the intended message should be conveyed more clearly or not at all. It is supposed to be a strong message, not art subject to the viewer's interpretation.
RE: AIG - Really? - Josh - 12-06-2011 09:14 AM
I'd say that AIG has been taking lessons from Howard Stern, but I think Howard's got more taste than that.
RE: AIG - Really? - notdrinkingthekoolaid - 12-06-2011 03:16 PM
Isn't AIG an investment/financial company? That's what I thought of when I opened the thread...