(December 22, 2016 at 9:57 pm)paulpablo Wrote: haha ok so because I didn't provide links to my evidence the evidence definitely does not exist and therefore I definitely made an assumption.
I'll refer you to my earlier post, and ask you to think. I'm guardedly optimistic about my first request, but distinctly skeptical about the latter.
I'll give you a little time to go find a dictionary to look up those big words that were giving you so much trouble the other day ... I'm a patient guy.
Also, just so I can irritate Private Butthurt a little more, you're building a strawman here.
(December 22, 2016 at 9:57 pm)paulpablo Wrote: It's fucking mainstream news. I still don't know where you found your source about him not being Tunisian. Every mainstream media source I've viewed says he's a Muslim from Tunisia so since I have proof in the form of media sources such as the BBC, and just about every other news source you can google.
I'm guessing that reading isn't your strong suit. I didn't say he wasn't Tunisian. I said that the Tunisian government denied that he was Tunisian.
If you're not up to this sort of detail, all you have to do is say as much. I will dumb it down for you as much as you need.
(December 22, 2016 at 9:57 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I'm not going to cry PC but I will ask.....
I saw on the television on BBC that this man is a Tunisian Muslim so i think he's a Tunisian Muslim. What does this say about me? I'm probably a xenophobic Islamophobic white nationalist I'll bet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38392128
Here's the link by the way to the BBC article from one day ago.
I can see how where it says someone in the Tunisian government must have claimed he isn't Tunisian but it also does say that his brother is back there in Tunisia and that his school records and criminal records all indicate him being Tunisian. Which is why the news sources refar to him as the Tunisian suspect.
That's great. How does it advance the conversation about assumptions people make?
Remember, immediately after the OKC bombing, McVeigh was described as a Muslim. And after 9/11, a Sikh was killed (in Arizona, iirc) because he was wearing a turban and the American, out of ignorance, assumed he was Muslim, and out of bigotry decided to kill him.
So when folks come shopping assumptions, I will always question them. It doesn't mean that I'm always right, but it does mean that the folks making the assumptions are being dumbfucks. Because going off half-cocked is not reasonable or rational. Surely even someone as lowbrow as you understands that.
Sorry if that opinion hurts your widdle feelings ... find a safe-zone, there there, you'll be fine, Cupcake.
