Quote:The story which he unhesitatingly believed (an report that the Iranian parliament was forcing Jews and Zoroastrians to sew identifying strips of cloth on their clothes ala Nazi Germany, for the record) and insulted everyone who didn't share his opinion ("...thinking with their assholes, not their brains") was retracted by the news source that ran it (Canada's National Post) the day afterwards. Because it was false.
Anyway, maybe the reason he hasn't admitted and apologized for anything is because he doesn't think he was wrong. It'd be inappropriate for him to do so under those circumstances.
The story was wrong. He was wrong. Period. He won't admit it or apologise for what he said, the reasons for which you can decide for yourself. I couldn't care less that he insulted me, but that he insulted everyone who doesn't share his views, and that he slandered every member of a government he knows nothing about, is something he ought to come clean on, if he has any decency whatsoever.
Still, that being said, I acknowledge your point that it doesn't serve any purpose for this discussion, so I won't bring it up again. He knows what he did, and the choice of what sort of person he's going to be remains his, as always.
Quote:That's your choice, of course. But it seems rather odd to me to refuse to take a side on an issue because people care about it. There's a hell of a lot of important issues in the world that are "politicised", in fact, pretty much every important issue in the world is.
In my case, I consider this one of a set of issues that has become so politicized, I don't feel I can trust any of the conclusions being reached by either side.