RE: Damned Muslims
July 24, 2020 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2020 at 9:34 am by Porcupine.)
(July 19, 2020 at 10:59 am)Lawz Wrote: FYI @Porcupine the word/derogatory label "bigotry" makes zero sense. For example, if you're a Democrat who thinks people shouldn't vote Republican, you're a bigot, or if you think murderers/rapists/pedophiles shouldn't commit murder/rape/pedophilia, you're a bigot. Oh, you might say, but bigots have to be unreasonable - well then, I ask you, who is the judge of that which is unreasonable. Bigotry as a label can go fuck itself (pun intended).
Just because a label is subjective doesn't mean it doesn't have utility for subjects.
(July 19, 2020 at 1:26 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(July 19, 2020 at 10:47 am)Porcupine Wrote: So being bigoted about three groups of people cancels it all out into non-bigotry?
It's not bigotry. It's criticising members within the specified groups.
That's alright, then. I guess the answer to "Does anybody else find this bigoted?" was "no", then. Seemed like it was pointing at individuals in order to generalize certain undesirable characteristics to a whole group, to me. Which would be bigotry. But maybe that isn't what was being done. Knowing the intention of others is not my specialty. I just go by my own interpretations just like everybody else does.
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