User Banned (Duration Pending): Dismissing racism and Islamophobia, history of dismissing sensitive issues.
This thread abysmal.
It's actually embarrassing to post here.
I'm trying to avoid these type of threads, focus on what this website it good at, but there's so many, I slipped. So I'll post this then get out of the thread permanently. So don't bother @ing me as the kids say.
To side against a teenage girl who got subjected to death threats because she insulted a religion is a disgusting position for any right minded person to take, and you are taking that position regardless of whatever defence of imaginary "racism" against a religion a nearly 2 billion people and controls a massive amount of the world you think you are undertaking.
"Defending" the "minority" you are defending against another "minority"is the logical conclusion in your mind's obsession with purity tests.
Meanwhile if we step away from that nonsense and into the world of common sense, the right to criticise or insult religions, regardless of if they are being used to insult the critic as in this case with this girl, without fear of death threats is pretty fucking basic, and the quality of the criticism does not determine whether threats are valid or not.
They never are.
Debating a 15/16 year old girls reaction to being attacked is inherently saying that a low quality criticism is a valid recipient.
The only racism on display is in fact by those who pan Muslims with the low expectation of handwaving angry responses to the girl as to be expected and understandable. There's plenty resonable people this thread, and elsewhere, Muslims and ex-Muslims alike to prove that is not the necessary response.
Lastly if the response to someone insulting a religion and saying it is hateful, is raw hate, then that person has clearly got a point.
Religions are mechanisms of control and power it's as true for Islam as any other. It's one of the most successful that's ever existed. It doesn't need your defence no more than the pope does.
They have plenty built in already.
This is outrageous and insulting and textbook Islamophobia.
#TrustTheProgress
I have no idea how people navigate the minefield of era
it seems like the only non-controversial take in that thread is that it's shitty to paint an entire religion with a broad brush like that and it's also shitty that she received death threats
but that's the era definition of both-sidesing an argument which would possibly net you bans in any other thread
in this particular thread come out strong with any take other than the boogie one and you get got
also on that page they're talking about how problematic the new athiest movement was and how dawkins and harris were totally racist and all those m'lady intellectual athiests became alt-righters
next they'll be outright defending christianity
