Build a mosque on *this*, jackass
Aug. 19th, 2010 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanLet's be clear.
If I decide I want to shave my head, and every single person in the city of Arlington thinks I shouldn't, there's not any need to hold negotiations and find a compromise. It's my right, because it's my head. The city of Arlington doesn't get a say.
If a private group decides they want to build an Islamic center in New York, and the entire state of Wyoming thinks they shouldn't, there's not any need to hold negotiations and find a compromise. It's their right, because it's their building. So I'm really tired of all the talk of compromise, and of the Archbishop of New York offering to arbitrate until a compromise can be reached. You try to reach a compromise when Group A and Group B want different things and neither can do anything without an agreement, not when Group A wants to do something it has the right and the power and the desire to do, and Group B is just kind of irritated by it.
And I cannot believe I'm listening to Howard Dean defending the idea of "compromise" involving moving the center. But thank you, Keith Olbermann, for asking Dean if he would also oppose a gay culture center near a school or a civil rights center in Selma in 1963 (and all the more shame on Howard Dean for saying that this isn't like the civil rights movement; it's a whole lot like the civil rights movement).
If I decide I want to shave my head, and every single person in the city of Arlington thinks I shouldn't, there's not any need to hold negotiations and find a compromise. It's my right, because it's my head. The city of Arlington doesn't get a say.
If a private group decides they want to build an Islamic center in New York, and the entire state of Wyoming thinks they shouldn't, there's not any need to hold negotiations and find a compromise. It's their right, because it's their building. So I'm really tired of all the talk of compromise, and of the Archbishop of New York offering to arbitrate until a compromise can be reached. You try to reach a compromise when Group A and Group B want different things and neither can do anything without an agreement, not when Group A wants to do something it has the right and the power and the desire to do, and Group B is just kind of irritated by it.
And I cannot believe I'm listening to Howard Dean defending the idea of "compromise" involving moving the center. But thank you, Keith Olbermann, for asking Dean if he would also oppose a gay culture center near a school or a civil rights center in Selma in 1963 (and all the more shame on Howard Dean for saying that this isn't like the civil rights movement; it's a whole lot like the civil rights movement).