RE: Need to vent.
August 3, 2017 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 4:49 pm by Regina.)
I'd just say "show me the exact quote where I said religious people deserve to be killed. Show me it."
These people reach, we've all heard it before, someone hearing a criticism of religion and conflating the fuck out of it to think you hate people who are religious and even want them dead.
This is especially (but not exclusively) a massive problem with discussions around Islam. You absolutely cannot make a legitimate criticism of the ideology or politicisation of Islam without someone, whether it's a practitioner or a white knight caping for Islam, accusing you of "painting with a broad brush" at best or wanting "genocide of Muslims" at worst.
And don't get me wrong, there are some people who genuinely do hate religious people, or hate people with a different religion to their own. That exists, we've all seen it, and it's ignorant. That still doesn't mean there aren't legitimate criticisms of religion, and yes you can walk that line of criticising religion and strongly disliking it without demonising individual people who follow it.
These people reach, we've all heard it before, someone hearing a criticism of religion and conflating the fuck out of it to think you hate people who are religious and even want them dead.
This is especially (but not exclusively) a massive problem with discussions around Islam. You absolutely cannot make a legitimate criticism of the ideology or politicisation of Islam without someone, whether it's a practitioner or a white knight caping for Islam, accusing you of "painting with a broad brush" at best or wanting "genocide of Muslims" at worst.
And don't get me wrong, there are some people who genuinely do hate religious people, or hate people with a different religion to their own. That exists, we've all seen it, and it's ignorant. That still doesn't mean there aren't legitimate criticisms of religion, and yes you can walk that line of criticising religion and strongly disliking it without demonising individual people who follow it.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
