Those photos from The Pledge To America

[elfs]

Darryl challenged me to show that DailyKos had not cropped or elided the photos in the Republican Pledge To America to skew the results. So I extracted every photo that had people in it. You're welcome to look closely; the images embedded in the document are much higher resolution than in the Kos montage. The numbers are not sequential because some images were just hand-kerned text or photos of buildings and monuments. If you still doubt the veracity, you can read the document yourself.

The America that the Republican party is pledging to "bring back" is overwhelmingly one in which only white people do the important things. In whitewashed wooden buildings under sunny Midwestern skies. And on horses.

But Kos was wrong. There was one more person of color, unfairly cut from the photo set.



How dare they exclude Orange-Americans!

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[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Evidence? I've known plenty of religious wankers and many of them will warp any bit of information to fit their preconceptions. They'll probably say something irksome like "How do you describe color to a blind man?"

Read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason if you'd like to see a fairly sophisticated version of this sort of wankery. You'll find Kant bandied about by the more self-assured religious sorts. Several later philosophers have ripped huge gaping holes in Kant's argument, notably, Karl Marx. Of course, if you quote Marx, you're a god-hating commie.

Now if you're asking if I can prove the non-existence of souls? Perhaps I can, perhaps I can't. The odds of any proof I provide actually changing the view of the faithful are near zero and the value of proving it to them is pretty low anyhow, so why bother? Besides. I'm not actually conceited enough to believe I know beyond question. I just find it rather unlikely.