Gross.
Listen to Cognitive Dissonance or The Scathing Atheist then. Or watch Bill Maher. (Actually now that I think about it, that's the dividing line - the only liberals calling out the Muslim world on its bullshit are the ones starting from the premise that ALL religion is a force of evil in need of standing up to.)
I watch Maher, and I'll check out Cognitive Dissonance, but I refuse to listen to anything called "The Scathing Atheist."
My problem with Maher's criticism is that he blankets it over *all* Muslims, which imo is just as bad as liberals being anti-semitic. It's not Muslims that are the problems, it's the national policy of respective countries that are causing the issue.
The bold stuff is mind-blowing to me. What the hell kind of liberals have I been around that this behavior you're describing is the norm and seems insane to me? What kind of liberal am I - am I slanted in that my focus in college was History->Mesopotamia->Tigris/Euphrates today?
Jesus. We *should* be speaking out about the entire region - especially about the part from Diff in underline.
Is this where my lack of perspective comes from? The people I know and consider "liberal" all share this view with me. Am I in a weird bubble-within-a-bubble?
Weeellll buggery laws were a real thing in the uk.
We would LOVE to, but the likes of Pam Gellar and the "Islam is barbaric/inherently evil/conquering the west" people make us not want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
And that's what drives me most nuts about those people. They hide behind the fact that they occasionally do real humanitarian work, but they intentionally alienate the rest of the humanitarian community, thus reducing that work to a political ploy, rather than accomplishing so much more.
We were throwing gays in prison like... recently. Globalism gives a stark contrast between cultures that are maybe a few decades apart, but let's not pretend it's much more than that.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 28 Nov 2016 at 09:24 AM.
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