RE: Ask Your Favorite Muslim
October 5, 2016 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2016 at 2:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, like a good little boy. This is -exactly- the deference and undeserved respect the abrahamic tradition has demanded for itself... from society, by force whenever possible, since it was first cooked up. It's done a prewtty good job, since there are more than a few non-believers who've drunk the deference koolaid.
Rayaan doesn't -see- frothing bigotry in those comments because he was brought up with that context as a given. When he looks at those remarks, he sees tolerance and cool level-headedness. That's what an outsider moment is. When a person smiles....while saying something horrid...and you're left standing there thinking "wtf?" That;s why we say things like "apply the outsider test". In the hope that, if they were capable of imagining themselves as us, as outsiders, they might recognize something about their rhetoric that had, up to that point, escaped their notice.
Rayaan doesn't -see- frothing bigotry in those comments because he was brought up with that context as a given. When he looks at those remarks, he sees tolerance and cool level-headedness. That's what an outsider moment is. When a person smiles....while saying something horrid...and you're left standing there thinking "wtf?" That;s why we say things like "apply the outsider test". In the hope that, if they were capable of imagining themselves as us, as outsiders, they might recognize something about their rhetoric that had, up to that point, escaped their notice.
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