America the Ignorant
By Adam Ferguson
Ah ignorance! Is there anything better than your whitewashing of history? Your infusion of misguided beliefs? Your self-centered head-buried in the sand ideals? Let’s face it, there’s a large part of this country that has absolutely no clue what they’re talking about. Take, for example, the recent Lowe’s controversy in which they removed their ads from All-American Muslim, a show depicting five muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan. They pulled it because a conservative group in Florida (or, “not those people again”) called the Florida Family Association decided it was un-American to broadcast a show that depicted religion as anything other than Christian and they started a letter writing campaign. So forget the fact that this country has something called freedom of religion, and that one of the men on the show is a police officer protecting the Jesus-loving asses of his town. No, you see, the FFA wants America to fit into their ideals and their beliefs and if the comments section of the Lowe’s Facebook page is any indication, there’s a large number of Americans who are just as ignorant. This is absolutely in no way different than the Westboro Baptist Church protesting at the funerals of dead homosexuals.
Unfortunately, all of this is just another in a horribly long line of American ignorance that fails to see what our country was truly built on, and instead finds splintered “religious” groups pushing their own agenda by misinterpreting true American ideals. Need more proof? Keep reading.
- Rick Perry’s Offensive and Anti-Homosexual Television Ad
- Federal money was spent to see if prayer could cure AIDS. (It couldn’t)
- Tim Tebow is proof that praying to God works. Or is he?
- Gingrich thinks Palestinians are “invented.”
- Rush Limbaugh assumes Obama thought the White House Hanukah celebration was Kwanzaa.
- Opening schools before Labor Day is bad for Virginia’s theme park industry.
- The leading cause of breast cancer? Abortion.
