If there’s a group of people worse than uber-conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin, it’s the people who comment on her articles. Take sammy316 on this article regarding forced marriages.
This kind of crap may fly in India or any land of perpetual outrage where goats and cattle mean something, but in the civilized world we like our marriages short and painful. Well not all of course, some people do beat the odds. (Emphasis added.)
I’m sure India would love to hear that they aren’t considered civilized.
Dude, they have 8 limbed babies and call them gods!
They cut the clitorises off little girls. Those forced marriages are often little girls.
Don’t even get me started on the caste system.
You think they’re civilized?
I don’t make judgment calls on who’s civilized or not. But judging an entire country based on the ancient traditions it’s associated with? Not everyone there follows those beliefs to the letter.
Besides, couldn’t someone easily profile the United States in much the same way? “They used to lynch black people and now they drag homosexuals behind their cars! How can anyone think they’re civilized?”
Good point