Comments on: Keep Bigots at Bay http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Suhail Kazi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43685 Suhail Kazi Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:48:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43685 <p>Huh!?! Hitting for a job? on a blog? to Mittal? Those guys must be going crazy.. for cash ? :D. Manish, I say, close the thread, but keep those comments. It will spread much merriment around.</p> <p>I mean how exactly one hits for cash? "Hey Mittal, have some spare change..no? ok, how abt a steel rod?"</p> Huh!?! Hitting for a job? on a blog? to Mittal? Those guys must be going crazy.. for cash ? :D . Manish, I say, close the thread, but keep those comments. It will spread much merriment around.

I mean how exactly one hits for cash? “Hey Mittal, have some spare change..no? ok, how abt a steel rod?”

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By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43653 Manish Vij Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:08:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43653 <p>Celeb posts are problematic. Every single comment we got last time was someone hitting him up for a job or cash, or flaming said lamers.</p> Celeb posts are problematic. Every single comment we got last time was someone hitting him up for a job or cash, or flaming said lamers.

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By: Guru Gulab Khatri http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43651 Guru Gulab Khatri Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:55:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43651 <p>Manish OFF TOPIC why is mittal a sensitive topic? Is steel industry a problem....</p> Manish OFF TOPIC why is mittal a sensitive topic? Is steel industry a problem….

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By: Ennis http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43614 Ennis Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:25:00 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43614 <p>The above quote is used in its entirety in the post "Poison Pills"</p> The above quote is used in its entirety in the post “Poison Pills”

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By: Ennis http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43613 Ennis Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:24:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43613 <p>Bin Bajwa:</p> <p>Each quote is followed by a link to the article from which it was taken. For example,</p> <blockquote>Even Jerry Kessler, director of the Nutritional Health Alliance, chief executive officer of N.Y.-based Natural Organics and designer of the circular, said it was a purely political response to regulations proposed by Durbin. He also agreed the flier was “not fair” and “in bad taste.” “Desperate times require desperate actions,” Kessler said. “I’m certainly going to do what’s necessary to call attention to our cause. If I sound to you like a hate-monger, then I can’t help it.” More than a million copies of the flier were sent to vitamin and supplement buyers, and Kessler said he’s responded personally to phone calls and letters from people he has offended. [<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/13F9C09A89E25508862570F2001FA09C?OpenDocument">Link</a>]</blockquote> <p>If you click on the link and scroll down, you'll see that the quote is not edited cleverly in any way, and all the words are from the original article. I have no idea what the printed copy of the article says.</p> Bin Bajwa:

Each quote is followed by a link to the article from which it was taken. For example,

Even Jerry Kessler, director of the Nutritional Health Alliance, chief executive officer of N.Y.-based Natural Organics and designer of the circular, said it was a purely political response to regulations proposed by Durbin. He also agreed the flier was “not fair” and “in bad taste.” “Desperate times require desperate actions,” Kessler said. “I’m certainly going to do what’s necessary to call attention to our cause. If I sound to you like a hate-monger, then I can’t help it.” More than a million copies of the flier were sent to vitamin and supplement buyers, and Kessler said he’s responded personally to phone calls and letters from people he has offended. [Link]

If you click on the link and scroll down, you’ll see that the quote is not edited cleverly in any way, and all the words are from the original article. I have no idea what the printed copy of the article says.

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By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43611 Manish Vij Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:23:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43611 <blockquote>I just found a printed article (which is being quoted on this site 'poison pills') and in there this guy apologizes for offending anyone with the flyer, yet that part seems to have been removed from this site!</blockquote> <p>Where's the link, scan or quote?</p> <blockquote>Good job on the propaganda ennis</blockquote> <p>Pot, meet kettle.</p> I just found a printed article (which is being quoted on this site ‘poison pills’) and in there this guy apologizes for offending anyone with the flyer, yet that part seems to have been removed from this site!

Where’s the link, scan or quote?

Good job on the propaganda ennis

Pot, meet kettle.

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By: Lost http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43609 Lost Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:18:42 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43609 <blockquote>Good job on the propaganda ennis</blockquote> <p>So Bin Bajwa, Let's say I called you a "clueless and illiterate moron" and then apologized for it and said that I wasn't trying to be mean. If you then complained would your complaint be considered propoganda? Would you be blowing it out of proportion?</p> Good job on the propaganda ennis

So Bin Bajwa, Let’s say I called you a “clueless and illiterate moron” and then apologized for it and said that I wasn’t trying to be mean. If you then complained would your complaint be considered propoganda? Would you be blowing it out of proportion?

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By: Bin Bajwa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43606 Bin Bajwa Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:02:50 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43606 <p>I just found a printed article (which is being quoted on this site 'poison pills') and in there this guy apologizes for offending anyone with the flyer, yet that part seems to have been removed from this site! And he never says anything about being a hatemonger. This is not my first time on this site, but it looks to me like who ever posted those quotes is just trying to blow this out of proportion. Good job on the propaganda ennis</p> I just found a printed article (which is being quoted on this site ‘poison pills’) and in there this guy apologizes for offending anyone with the flyer, yet that part seems to have been removed from this site! And he never says anything about being a hatemonger. This is not my first time on this site, but it looks to me like who ever posted those quotes is just trying to blow this out of proportion. Good job on the propaganda ennis

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By: RC http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43598 RC Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:49:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43598 <p>Yes, why not fight the abuse of "first amendment" with first amendment? I think the flyer is great. As long as google or other searches keep showing up this post, the job of spreading the word is done, in one sense.</p> Yes, why not fight the abuse of “first amendment” with first amendment? I think the flyer is great. As long as google or other searches keep showing up this post, the job of spreading the word is done, in one sense.

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By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/01/26/keep_bigots_at/comment-page-1/#comment-43592 Manish Vij Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:29:23 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2896#comment-43592 <p>He's saying turban = terrorist, no matter what the political point. That's bigotry.</p> He’s saying turban = terrorist, no matter what the political point. That’s bigotry.

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