Hugh Hefner Quotes
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
Watts, Steven. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Most people are familiar with the people are familiar with the terrible persecution of the Jews in Spain by the Christians. Although there were a few examples of tolerance to Jews by Muslims when they controlled Spain and instances like modern Turkey. Generally however there is and has been Islamic persecution of Jews, Christians, and other non Muslims in almost all nations where Muslims have been in control. Until the Enlightenment, Christian persecution of other religions was just as bad if not worse.
Throughout the history of American Slavery, the Southern apologists for slavery have accused abolitionists and anyone opposed to slavery of being Communists, Atheists, or any other group that was generally unpopular in the day. This is one of the early instances where that heinous practice was started. However it continued and became especially virulent, in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s where anyone who opposed segregation was accused by Southern Segregationists of being Communists and Atheists as well as other unpleasant epithets. Most religious Americans opposed slavery in the 1850s but there are some in the South, like this Preacher, who seemed totally ignorant of the strong pro abolitionist views of the many religious leader abolitionists in the North and a few in the South.
The penchant for Southern conservatives to always blame outsiders whenever there were local people demanding change or reform may have begun here. It reached its peak in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. There was however, a conscious effort of the Massachusetts Patriots to have descriptions of their revolutionary activities sent as newspaper articles throughout all the colonies quickly after the events. The Americans thus were able to frame all the issues, before the reports could get to London and the British thus got their viewpoints to the public weeks and months after the revolutionists did.
800,000 Rwandans were murdered with machetes and shovels less than 20 years before. The ethnic genocide was triggered by various hate speech in rallies and over the radio. This type of speech was made illegal in Rwanda, not unlike Germany, Turkey, Israel, Singapore, and many other solid democracies but they do not have as strong a protection of free speech as in America.
West, a very articulate, personable and accomplished Tea Party Candidate had won one of the 2010 congressional races in Florida. After two years in office, his rhetoric was so negative, vituperative, hateful and obviously untrue that the voters turned him out.
The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom.
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity. The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot; it sold over 50,000 copies.
