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Not to mention this whole issue involves unequal generalizations. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 08/08/2018 08:01:45 AM

If we don't support homosexuality or homosexual marriage, we're homophobes, even if we have no problem with actual homosexuals. If we have a serious moral issue with abortion, oh, I guess we hate women, apparently, even when providing support services, free medical aid and services, and offer opportunities for a non-murder method of getting rid of their unwanted child?


Or how abortion opponents are dangerous fanatics, having killed nearly a dozen abortionists in the forty+ years since Roe V Wade, but the day after 3000 people are murdered indiscriminately by people acting in the name of Islam, according to specific and explicit doctrines of Islam, the President of the US calls it a "religion of peace". It's acceptable for all Christians to be tarred with the brush of the behavior of the Westboro Baptist Church, and never mind that if they did in fact share those beliefs, there would be no need for Fred Phelps to go off and form his own church, but how dare anyone do the same to Muslims who, in the name of their religion, commit mass murder. It is MORE acceptable to share the blame for Islamic terrorism, sexism & homophobia with Christians under the category of "Religion", than it is to share it with people who profess to follow the same prophets and read the same holy books!

It's racist for citing specific stats indicating criminal behavior of black people, and there is no reason to assume cops are aware of these stats and their treatment of blacks is founded entirely on baseless hostility, but it's okay to make broad assumptions about the behavior of white people, who come from dozens of different ethnic cultures, traditions and religions, but not about black people, who come from a remarkably small area of Africa, were assimilated into a particular subset of American culture, all possessing the same linguistic heritage, as well as being and Protestants, and to this day retain an identity as a community, while bloc-voting in numbers as no other group does.

It's okay for liberals to cite the poverty of black people when calling for actions to alleviate that poverty. It's okay for liberals to assert that poverty causes crime when demanding welfare spending over anti-crime policies. And it's racist for anyone to suggest that maybe these two claims of liberals not only might both be true, but that they suggest a natural and-to-be expected higher crime rate for blacks, including a greater likelihood of coming into violent confrontations with the police.

Cannoli
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Re: I think your friend may have been playing with you - 07/08/2018 05:53:56 AM 388 Views
What a well reasoned argument - 08/08/2018 07:26:36 PM 404 Views
I didn't think I'd see you, of all people, using this particular argument. - 06/08/2018 11:48:17 PM 418 Views
You're waaay to obsessed with Egwene, Cannoli. - 07/08/2018 06:16:49 AM 378 Views
I don't wanna comment on this whole thing, or get into y'all's spat, but... - 07/08/2018 04:16:10 PM 369 Views
They were not innocents! - 07/08/2018 04:25:54 PM 414 Views
Innocent is irrelevant. Disarmed is the pertinent qualifier. - 08/08/2018 01:36:01 AM 397 Views
I'm not the one defending her actions while criticizing real people for doing less egregious things - 08/08/2018 12:59:52 AM 387 Views
Isn't this pretty much par for the course, from the left? - 08/08/2018 05:21:45 AM 367 Views
Not to mention this whole issue involves unequal generalizations. - 08/08/2018 08:01:45 AM 400 Views
This - 08/08/2018 02:47:29 PM 384 Views
Re: Interesting. I'd like your input. - 06/08/2018 11:27:43 PM 430 Views
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Is the argument that "really bad dudes" don't deserve civil rights protections? - 07/08/2018 05:11:53 PM 445 Views
no - 07/08/2018 05:50:59 PM 371 Views
Preaching to the choir, man. Or maybe b!tching at the choir? - 07/08/2018 05:57:11 PM 373 Views
well said *NM* - 07/08/2018 06:27:58 PM 167 Views
Re: Preaching to the choir, man. Or maybe b!tching at the choir? - 07/08/2018 08:00:13 PM 364 Views
More black criminals are shot per capita. More whites are shot in total. - 07/08/2018 08:20:12 PM 536 Views
Correct. - 07/08/2018 09:38:56 PM 354 Views
Yeah, you really misunderstand me, apparently - 07/08/2018 08:53:56 PM 356 Views
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The problem with the camera footage not being released - 08/08/2018 07:45:44 PM 368 Views
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