(July 4, 2018 at 9:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Bigotry and racism aren't the same thing. For example, this:
Quote: If Catholic were a race, then they should all be Irish or Italian.
is an extremely bigoted comment, but it doesn't make you a racist.
Boru
Explain to me where my logic is wrong, but please do not falsely accuse me of making a bigoted comment.
If you think there are no different skin tones in either Ireland or Italy, then you'd have to presume that migration to those nations never happened.
Irish and Italian are statements of geography, not skin tone. If humans prior didn't migrate to those locations, those nations would not exist.
Just as if Israeli were a race, or Jew was a skin tone, then how does one explain Sammy Davis Jr?
^^^^^ So we should assume all Irish are white? If we shouldn't why should we assume all Irish are Catholic?
https://twitter.com/atheistie?lang=en
Do we assume all Americans are White Christians?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...cs/544754/
Do we assume that all blacks are Christians whom will never leave their former religion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Vaughn_Finley_Sr. <--- Look, a black atheist.
Is Islam a race?
I don't think so.
Here is former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Can someone ditch Hinduism or Sikhism? I think so
https://twitter.com/indianatheists?lang=en
Jew is not a race, nationality only describes where one is born, it is not a skin tone.
If you had read Penn's book "God No" you'd have read the story where he had dinner with a fan after one of his shows in which the former Jew ate a bacon cheeseburger.
It is not a bigoted statement to say our artificial borders which never existed 200,000 are not a religion or race. Racism does exist, but for horrible reasons. Mistaking religion for skin tone is one of them, nationality and politics would be the other two.
Jew is not a race.
Japanese is a Geography, Israel is a Geography, China is a geography, Mexico is a geography, but none of those labels are religions. None of those geographies have ever prevented our species from spreading out and mixing our genes.
