RE: Social distancing vs Prayer
March 21, 2020 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2020 at 1:26 pm by GrandizerII.)
(March 21, 2020 at 12:53 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(March 21, 2020 at 11:32 am)Grandizer Wrote: I know you talk about some people in America being idiots. But ... you also made this thread as well, where you singled out Pakistan as a big bad culprit behind the worsening of this crisis, ignoring several other examples in other countries such as the USA. Your excuse was "that's the first one I saw in the news" so all the more reason to think you weren't just innocently stating an example among many.We get it.
One example in Australia, a beach got closed very recently because a large gathering of people were there despite the warnings not to gather in large numbers. And some people are still complaining about that, saying it's a "sacred" place for them and it shouldn't have been shut down. So here from examples like this, it seems more the issue that many people in general have a problem with having their freedoms being restricted (religious or otherwise), even when it's for the greater good (and especially if the threat isn't that clear to them anyway).
All would have been fine if OLB had posted about every large gathering on the entire fucking planet that has happened since it became apparent that social distancing was the best way to try to lessen its impact.
Orrrrrr...if someone (nearly anyone) else had posted the link to the article.
Will you or Bri be claiming #Pakistanmatters?
Or, how about this, a general admonition/rant/whatever against people who do these large gatherings disregarding the wellbeing of others, whoever they happen to be. Then this would be a much fairer statement to make.
But at the end of the day, I'm not personally affected by what OLB chooses to post. You are free to make whatever thread you want to make here (as long as it doesn't violate the rules here), but expressing bigotry is expressing bigotry. If I want to point it out, I'm going to do so, whether it's OLB or you or someone else.
