Jumping to the Wrong Conclusions
I’m not so much disturbed by the findings of the Simon Weisenthal report, as I am by their interpretation of the results.
The Simon Weisenthal Center for Tolerance scanned the web and found a 20% increase to 11,500 in hate-filled social networks, Web sites, forums, blogs, Twitter feeds, and so on (up from 10,000 last year).
Well, that could be just due to increased usage of the Internet, and Twitter, but we’ll leave that detail aside for now.
It notes that beyond its role in our social lives, the Internet often acts as the incubator and validator of dangerous conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 and organ theft, according to the article on Americablog.
What the hell does he mean, dangerous?
In what way does it endanger anybody for me to suggest that Vice President Dick Cheney, the head of security for the World Trade Center Complex Marvin (the president’s little brother)Bush and building owner Larry Silverstein conspired to have the buildings knocked down, knowing full well that their good friend Rupert Murdoch would report the events in a way favorable to them and that Marvin’s brother George would reap enormous political benefit, Cheney’s old buddies at Halliburton would get billions of dollars in contracts and Larry Silverstein would get a cool $5 billion for that real estate he was otherwise losing money on?
Unless, of course, they are actually guilty, in which case it endangers them, I guess. But I don’t know why the Simon Weisenthal Center for Tolerance would object to that.
The other thing is, why the connection between 9/11 and organ theft? Now, I do believe it is entirely possible that there are organized criminal gangs which are willing to kill people and harvest their organs for a profit, and are able to do so. I also believe the Cheney/Bush/Silverstein theory outlined above. But I don’t see any connection at all between those two theories.
So, I’m forced to conclude that they are trying to be funny. The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance is taking the piss.
With all due respect, because I’m sure the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance are generally fine people, this was a dick report.
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